Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 12, 2012

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    BE THIS GUY  about 12 years ago

    Just in case you have to jump out of a plane near Billings.

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    pouncingtiger  about 12 years ago

    Billings is a town in Montana.

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    rentier  about 12 years ago

    Come on! A good start!

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    RetroJenny  about 12 years ago

    This sounds like a kit MacGyver would carry with him.

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    margueritem  about 12 years ago

    I so agree!

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    Sciatic  about 12 years ago

    One of the rare times that Hobbes is sincere in the last panel

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    Linux0s  about 12 years ago

    That ought to cover just about everything.

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    LingeeWhiz  about 12 years ago

    I’ve got duct tape on a wart right now. They say if I leave it on, it starves it of oxygen and no more wart.

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    killacowinWA  about 12 years ago

    “Our teeth and ambitions are bared, BE PREPAAAAAAAARED!

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    in.amongst  about 12 years ago

    uh-oh, he forgot the transmogrifier.

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    Phapada  about 12 years ago

    so will going to Thailand C&H?

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    Puddleglum2  about 12 years ago

    I hope that rock is the “Rock of Ages”!

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    Puddleglum2  about 12 years ago

    “Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag and smile, smile, smile!”

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    Puddleglum2  about 12 years ago

    Calvin can catch “Pennies From Heaven” in his umbrella, if he has any ‘cents’!

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    Puddleglum2  about 12 years ago

    A wrench can be handy for a nut like Calvin!

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    lisajwalton  about 12 years ago

    LMAO….you beat me to it! Can’t go wrong with duct tape!

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    thirdguy  about 12 years ago

    Billings Montana, was named after a guy from Vermont.

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    38lowell  about 12 years ago

    So young to be a Boy Scout!

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    Midgrid  about 12 years ago

    Calvin is an actual Boy Scout in some of the earlier strips, but Watterson abandoned this when he realised that Calvin wasn’t the sort of boy who would willingly join such an association, as he much prefers his own company (and that of Hobbes).

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    geraldthekoala  about 12 years ago

    calvin calvin calvin

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    hazardboy  about 12 years ago

    “They”, are such geniuses, to think of all things.

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    Number Three  about 12 years ago

    Love Hobbes’ sarcasm!

    But who wouldn’t take comic books?

    I know I would.

    xxx

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    aimlesscruzr  about 12 years ago

    He forgot the towel.

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    Aaberon  about 12 years ago

    HA!!

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    CHAZ.SHIELDS  about 12 years ago

    Calvin lives in Montana? Is it big enough and empty enough to hold him?

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    Phapada  about 12 years ago

    righttt

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    yimhere  about 12 years ago

    Brilliant planning….. especially the umbrella – he may need it in a few years when his company goes bankrupt.

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    mimmiesan  about 12 years ago

    remember? duct tape and WD40 is all you need.if it moves and shouldn’t, use duct tape.if it should move and doesn’t, use WD40.

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    thirdguy  about 12 years ago

    If it talks and shouldn’t, use duct tape!If it squeaks and shouldn’t, use WD40!

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    lookwhatbobfound  about 12 years ago

    duct tape to the rescue for me last week!! the float ball rod in my commode snapped last week while i was trying to bend it a little (running toilet). duct tape took care of it.

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    Hoodude  about 12 years ago

    Just survive..I will find you

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    guswild  about 12 years ago

    He said he had an eraser but didn’t say he had a pencil

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    MontanaLady  about 12 years ago

    I’m not too sure if Montana is ready for Calvin!

    We’ll take Hobbes, though. :)))

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    Popeyesforearm  about 12 years ago

    that was the exact contents of my TA50 bag in the army, except I had 2 rocks and a map of all the gasthaus’s in a 20k perimeter around Giessen Germany.

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    battycomic Premium Member about 12 years ago

    What Calvin says about the umbrella in the last panel made me think of Inspector Gadget.

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    cosman  about 12 years ago

    I keep thinking about the toilet paper.. if the world ever goes to toilet, the person who stockpiled all the paper would be king.

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    holmswedeholm  about 12 years ago

    In the movie, “Second Hand Lions,” “the kid” was planning to run away and had a sort-of map of Montana—an area code map of the U.S. torn out of a telephone book, which included Area Code 409. When asked by his great-uncles, played by Michael Caine and Robert Duvall, where he was headed, the kid Walter, played by Haley Joel Osmet, pointed out the top of the map and said he thought he would go to Montana.

    We here in Montana concur with Calvin, Hobbes and Walter that our “Last Best Place,” a come-lately motto and description of the Big Sky Country or Treasure State, is a worthy kind of heaven, a place much to be wished for but hard to obtain, a place that’s at the end of the rainbow, much to be desired. It would be interesting to know what else Watterson thinks about MT. In this strip, he MIGHT also be saying that Montana is just another place among Calvin’s nonsensical survival collection. Maps of Montana are free for the asking.

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    Vonne Anton  about 12 years ago

    Map of Montana? He doesn’t even live in Montana! Maybe that’s what he plans to use for toilet paper….(just kidding!)

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    PoodleGroomer  about 12 years ago

    Montana and North Dakota are great places to live.Nobody with a cardboard sign is thinking about heading north now.-40 keeps the riffraff out.

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    holmswedeholm  about 12 years ago

    OOPS…I mistyped that area code for Montana above. Should be 406. Sorry!

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    ratlum  about 12 years ago

    A flash lite for looking under the bed.Monsters look for people that are away from home,by themselves .

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    calvinsfriend110  about 12 years ago

    So why isn’t he in Boy Scouts?

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    tuslog64  about 12 years ago

    Don’t downplay Montana. My sister used to live north of Eureka, Montana, first house across the border so most of their business was done in Montana. (You haven’t lived until driving the Going to Sun Highway!)

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    tuslog64  about 12 years ago

    Why an umbrella when earlier refusing to even use one in the rain, then I realized that was in an earlier Shirley and Son strip.

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    JP Steve Premium Member about 12 years ago

    When this strip was drawn a kid with a backpack was weird enough for Calvin. Now it’s normal!

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    Rickapolis  about 12 years ago

    Now if he had a book on bugs in Montana, that would be something.

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    brick10  about 12 years ago

    Can I borrow that map of Montana? I want to visit Jack.

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    cookies333  about 12 years ago

    I agree!

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    cookies333  about 12 years ago

    He forgot the candy bars!

    Oh, and by the way I won’t be commenting tomorrow. As I am going on an overnight camping trip with my school. : )

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    TheSkulker  about 12 years ago

    NO DUCT TAPE!!??? DOOMED!

    I had to LMAO when I watched the astronaut Don Pettit duct tape the joint cover between the ISS and the Falcon 9 last May.
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    King_Shark  over 11 years ago

    The towel? You’ll never get past the Vogons without a towel.

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    Foreshadow  over 3 years ago

    wish i could carry that much stuff around

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