r/ExplainLikeImCalvin • u/JadaTakesIt • 2d ago
ELIC: If 7 ate 9, then what happened to 19 and 29 and why didn’t the other numbers do anything about it?
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r/ExplainLikeImCalvin • u/Ben-Goldberg • 3d ago
ELIC: Why doesn't Santa get arrested for breaking and entering?
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r/ExplainLikeImCalvin • u/Charlie-Brown1950 • 3d ago
ELIC: Why does Santa have so many other names?
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Kris Kringle, Papa Noel, Saint Nicholas, and Father Christmas are all the same person.
r/ExplainLikeImCalvin • u/Curious-Message-6946 • 4d ago
ELIC: Why do Snoopy and Woodstock get left behind at the end of “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving”?
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r/ExplainLikeImCalvin • u/JadaTakesIt • 4d ago
ELIC: How does Santa have time to check his list twice? How does he know if you’re naughty on Christmas Eve?
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r/ExplainLikeImCalvin • u/Far_Comfortable980 • 5d ago
Why do people say “keeping the lights on?” Do they not realize that lights stay on unless you turn them off?
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r/ExplainLikeImCalvin • u/cunnilinguslover • 4d ago
ELIC: Why wrap Christmas gifts when we're just going to tear off the paper anyway?
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r/ExplainLikeImCalvin • u/Far_Comfortable980 • 5d ago
Why did people say “feeling blue” before color was invented?
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r/ExplainLikeImCalvin • u/Far_Comfortable980 • 5d ago
How did people communicate in old films, before sound was invented?
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r/ExplainLikeImCalvin • u/DEP-Yoki • 7d ago
Why do we say we make things out of “thin air”? Why can’t we make stuff out of thick air?
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Ignore this part is thick air what comes out your bootyhole daddy?
r/ExplainLikeImCalvin • u/legendaryboomer • 7d ago
ELIC ─ Where does the term "kick the bucket" come from?
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r/ExplainLikeImCalvin • u/TwisterUprocker • 8d ago
What is a hate group and why has Susie nominated G.R.O.S.S as one?
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r/ExplainLikeImCalvin • u/JadaTakesIt • 7d ago
ELIC: How do adults drink bears? Do bears drink humans?
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r/ExplainLikeImCalvin • u/-_-Orange • 9d ago
ELIC: Who tf is Calvin, and why do they get a different explanation than the rest of us not-Calvin’s?
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r/ExplainLikeImCalvin • u/Curious-Message-6946 • 9d ago
ELIC: Why does it feel weird to swallow what you just puked in your mouth?
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r/ExplainLikeImCalvin • u/Worried-Ask-949 • 10d ago
ELIC: Why do golden retrievers have that name? They don't retrieve gold.
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r/ExplainLikeImCalvin • u/Feisty-Albatross3554 • 10d ago
Why can't it get colder than 0 kelvin?
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r/ExplainLikeImCalvin • u/BrokenEye3 • 11d ago
ELIC, why does the Wolfman turn back into a human whenever the moon is hidden by a cloud, but not when he goes indoors and the moon is hidden by the ceiling?
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r/ExplainLikeImCalvin • u/DEP-Yoki • 10d ago
Why do we have history classes but not herstory classes?
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r/ExplainLikeImCalvin • u/cunnilinguslover • 12d ago
ELIC: Why are Christmas songs named Carols? Did she write them all herself?
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r/ExplainLikeImCalvin • u/mister_newbie • 13d ago
ELIC: Who's Will? And why does everyone say to fire at him?
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r/ExplainLikeImCalvin • u/BrokenEye3 • 13d ago
ELIC why do we say someone who's fallen down is "head over heels" when over your heels is where your head normally is when you're standing up?
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