Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 05, 2009

No April 15th for you, Hobbes…

At least we’re on the upswing now. It’s the month of March and first two weeks in April that are killer.

That Calvin, ever the optimist.

Now why would Hobbes want to set up an Irish terrorist group?

IRA is not only a terrorist organisation, it comes from banking! It’s an insurance!

@ Yukoner: I believe Hobbes is referring to his Individual Retirement Account, though I’m not sure what he’d be retiring FROM exactly.

@optimystic: as if being the stuffed tiger of an…overly active boy like Calvin was not a real job!He would have deserved a fair pension, I suppose.But now that the world is ending…

Yukoner, ignore the others. We know what kind of IRA is needed to help handle Calvin - you saw how he tried to attack Hobbes the other day :-)

Good one Yukoner, they bit.

SNOW outside!!!!

Calvin’s data sample might be a little small. Maybe he should have Suzie check his work.

How early do you get up margueritem?

Wasn’t this written back when the activists worried about global cooling?

Calvin’s observation sounds a lot like the approach used by the global warming alarmists

I love all of Calvin’s analogies

I noticed the days got short last year after September, too. You’d think they’d have fixed that problem by now.

Especially since its fiaxble.

I mean fixable.

Don’t blame Mother Nature for screwing everything on our planet, Earth! hee hee heeeee. In fact, Mother Nature is sweet. Wink!

dahling128 says:

“How early do you get up margueritem?”

Like many of the afficionados of Brooke McEldowney’s Pibgorn, margueritem is in the habit of staying up to catch the new strip(s) at the earliest possible moment. A better question is, “How late do you stay up, margueritem?”

Another good reason to hibernate all winter!!

It wouldn’t occur to Calvin that it’s only winter coming. (comic is dated 11-23) No the world’s coming to an end? Doesn’t he remember the same thing happened last year? But that is one thing I hate about winter. It’s getting dark around 4:30 already. I’m glad the days are now getting longer every day even if it’s only by about a minute. Spring’s coming!

Procrastination has its benefits too.

Possibly the earth would stand still and all our problems would be solved.

Besides, the current banking industry is getting pretty close to being a terrorist organization these days!

Actually and IRA is an Individual Retirement Agreement

Labguy says:

Actually and IRA is an Individual Retirement Agreement

Yukoner was being a smart a$$. He knows what an IRA is.

Nor necessarily margueritem, The Yukon territory is in Canada, our equivalent of I.R.A. is R.R.S.P. (Registered Retirement Savings Plan). I saw a joke on one of these strips about something called a 401/k which I’ve sort of vaguely remember hearing that alphanumeric before but I don’t recall what it was in context to, some sort of gov’t thing, I think, so the joke was lost on me.

Easy way to tell a Canadian from an American (male) is to ask him what his favorite hockey team is….if he’s still telling you about it ten minutes later, then he’s Canadian.

i love calivns eyes.

The last panel sets us up for tomorrows strip. I will be watching for another daring adventure of…. Spaceman Spiff!!!

can’t believe it snowed today

Hugh G. Rekshun says: Easy way to tell a Canadian from an American (male) is to ask him what his favorite hockey team is….if he’s still telling you about it ten minutes later, then he’s Canadian.

LOL, would work for most cases, except for the truly strange Canadians like myself that don’t like hockey….

Aw Hobbes, it’d be wiped out by now.

Calvin knows about IRA’s?

I love all of Calvin and Hobbes analogies :)

Geez DF, I didn’t know those existed. Be willing to bet, dollars to Timbits, that if someone around you started talking hockey, that you wouldn’t be totally clueless as to what they were discussing.

HUGH: Was once told during a FRI 13th in Port Dover ON that it was a right of passage to be pummeled by Tim Bits. Even helped pay for them. Totally clueless; now have been on the ‘pummelling’ end and truly understand.

Mmmmmmmm Timbits!

Having recently moved to Canada I have to say a hearty amen to that! There’s a Tim Hortons on every other block here in Canada and I couldn’t be happier.

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