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When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.

Bill Watterson

[Calvin, who has the chicken pox, calls Susie on the telephone.] Susie: Hello? Calvin: Hi, Susie! It’s me, Calvin! I was wondering if you’d like to come over and play. Susie: Why, sure! Boy,
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Dad Letting Mom Wondering
Hold it. You know what I’d like to see? I’d like to see the three bears eat the three little pigs, and then the bears join up with the big bad wolf and eat Goldilocks and Little Red Riding Hood! Tell me a story like that, OK?
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Pigs Riding Three
Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
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Snow Winning
I’ve always tried to make the strip animated, even when the characters aren’t moving, with expressions or perspectives or some sort of exaggeration.
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Aggerations Character Expression Moving
Sleepwalking?” “Nightmare?” “Homicidal psycho jungle cat!
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Cat Nightmare Psycho
Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
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Demand Ecstasy Enough
I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.
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Littles Nice People
They say the secret of success is being at the right place at the right time, but since you never know when the right time is going to be, I figure the trick is to find the right place and just hang around.
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Around Figures Hang Right Secret Tricks
Raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you’re old and weak… Am I scary, or what?
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Avenue Cynical Hollywood Poised Raised Scary
I asked mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn’t have paid for me.
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Children Mom Motivational
Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin. Calvin: [retrospectively] I’m not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
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Command Information Thorough Useless
You have the Swiss Army Knife of mental tools, and it’s going to come in handy all the time.
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Army Handy Knife Swiss Time
If people looked at the stars each night, they’d live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.
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Inspirational Nature Stars
Mothers are the necessity of invention.
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Invention Mother Motherhood
It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what’s cool.
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Grow Up Ideas People
[Calvin and Hobbes are playing Scrabble] Calvin: Ha! I’ve got a great word and it’s on a “Double word score” box! Hobbes: “ZQFMGB” isn’t a word! It doesn’t even have a vowel! Calvin: It is so a word! It’s a worm found in New Guinea!
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Looks Scrabble Vowels

When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.

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