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Calvin shows Mom the skeleton he and Hobbes dug up. Calvin is going to call the Natural History Museum and offer it to them for ten billion dollars. Mom thinks those are peculiar bones. Calvin asks if he should ask for more money. That wasn't quite what Mom meant.

Transcript

See the dinosaur skeleton we discovered and assembled? I'm going to call the natural history museum and tell them they can have it for ten billion dollars. Those are ... um ... peculiar bones. Do you think I should ask for more money? That's not QUITE what I meant.

Collected in

Weirdos From Another Planet!
p. 39
The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes
p. 165
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
Book 1,p. 430
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
Book 2,p. 76
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