Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 09, 2009

Two minds… different directions.

Calvin, I’d stop while I was ahead…

Calvin, try the power drill. That is most fun !

That’s one way that Dad will have to file for personal bankruptcy in the near future.

Is there anything that Calvin wont do?

Oh Hobbes, I don’t think Calvin is ready to go check the babes at the beach. You should go though, just don’t break the binoculars.

too much to ask, Calvin!

Hobbes’s sooooo funny and Dad, soooo lovely!

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No good deed goes unpunished, I’ve heard. Calvin seems intent to prove it…

Hey Hobbes can you borrow the binoculars from Calvin, so that you and I can check out the lovely babes down at the beach. To all you ladies here please don’t be angry, I was just making up a pun that was all.

Fair enough, wolfbyte36, but if there’s a pun in there it flew right past my binoculars. :)

Another lesson not learned…and another brick in the wall of Calvin’s eventual ENFP-hood.

I had a pair of binoculars like that when I was a kid.

You couldn’t even see the bedpost at the end of the bed.

The story ending seems a little anticlimactic to me. Oh well.

Dad won’t be saying “gimme a break!” for a while, i guess…

I’m going to think like Calvin.

LOLL!!!

Cute eye gesture by Hobbes in 3rd panel.. and lovely concept of watchin’ babes on da beach ;)

No, Calvin; thts NOT a good idea of breaking things in hoping to get them as your very own!

RHoney

I tried binoculars at the beach once… They got all fogged up and I couldn’t see ANYTHING! Must’ve been the weather..

Is’nt that how kids learn? — break something - get a new one.. whine about wanting the latest toy and get it. No consequences, and so little effort to get new stuff. No surprise our society is full of Calvins. Calvin should have been put to work to pay for the binoculars he broke and put to work again to pay for a cheap pair for himself. Dad will be paying for this lesson for a loooooong time.

For Calvin at least,every cloud has a silver lining!

Do you expect to find lady tigers down at the beach Hobbes?

I think the wrong lesson was learned here. :-D haha! But Hobbes is definitely a one track mind and major babe magnet!

LOL!

Calvinator,

I’m with you. Instead of learning (the right thing) from the experience, he’s going the other direction. No lesson learned (or the wrong one) if you get rewarded for your actions.

Donnerwetter noch einmal!

Nice juxtaposition of value systems here… Calvin views his unexpected windfall as a way to obtain even more possessions. Hobbes looks at it to obtain less tangible pleasures. Once again, Hobbes appears to have choosen the wiser path to true happiness.

Aahhh lessons learned….. and (so quickly) lessons misapplied. Hobbes, my man, those babes are gonna lead to trouble!

Imagine C and a “sawzall?” A sawzall would be perfect…we’re talkin’ insane fun…only those things are tough to break.

When Calvin grew up, did he become a lawyer or a politician?

yes.

When Calvin grew up, did he become a lawyer or a politician?² LOL^__^

calvin. tell dad you broke his Dremel tool. then give it to me

Bill Watterson remarked in at least one of his books that he liked giving Calvin contrarian qualities which he’d never agree to himself. (Given human nature’s capacity to miss the point of such humorous irony, I have to wonder how many kids HAVE missed the irony over the years and imitated rather than eschewed Calvin’s example.)

On the other hand, some things B.W. said he drew directly from his own experience – such as the basic traits of Moe and some aspects of Calvin’s Dad (like Dad’s love of camping, biking and “character development”, all through adversity however ridiculous).

Get out the Transmogrifier, Calvin. You can change them into X-Ray binoculars!

lol all that hobbes ever thinks about is babes…even with the calvinosaur story hobbes wanted babes :)

What would Calvin use powertools for?

When Calvin grows up, he becomes…

Frazz!

I think the BETTER question, greekhoplite, is … what WON’T Calvin use powertools for?!?!?!?!?

a 6yr old using power tools…

Macushlalondra said, about 6 hours ago

Do you expect to find lady tigers down at the beach Hobbes?

ya cougars

Hmm… Hobbes exists in Calvin’s mind. So Hobbes is a part of Calvin.

So I think as Calvin grows Hobbes will become more a functional part of Calvin. It will all balance out.

And how does a 6 year old earn $600? There is an age where the parents are supposed to keep the kids out of trouble. I think the church used to say kids under 7 didn’t understand enough to really sin!

Let’s hope Dad learned a lesson. Don’t expect mature behavior until the child is ready for it, and the parents need to help that along. Calvin is learning the wrong lesson.

@ Rakkav: What do you mean by ENFP-hood?

http://www.personalitypage.com/ENFP.html

http://typelogic.com/enfp.html

These pages (among others) have to do with personality analysis based on Jung’s psychological types (and these days, also combined with temperament and interactive style theory).

Already Calvin’s precocious enough to exhibit the definitive cognitive processes for an ENFP. First, he’s got this incredibly wide range of interests, is always fantasizing about “what if?”, has a world-class imaginary friend and other imaginary characters involved in endless psychodrama, and can go from zero to total screwball in 0.6 seconds. Second, everything he does is based on his set of personal values and no one else’s, unless he’s forced to concede otherwise.

Besides, get past his volatile temper and love of the bizarre and you’ll find one of the softest hearts around.

No wonder he reminds me so much of myself as a kid. I only found out recently that I’m an ENFP myself. (Long story.)

Rakkav

I am an ISTJ. We couldn’t be more totally opposite.

It pays to keep an open mind, and pay attention.

I like the way Calvin thinks

INFP.

sorry, but some of you “grown- ups” need to get a life

What grown-ups, JonD17? Do you see any grown-ups here? Didn’t think so. :)

4deer: INFP, huh? (Keirsey: Pal relationship!)

BC13, while it’s true that we’re opposite in the basic Myers-Briggs dichotomies, the real Jungian opposite of ISTJ is INFJ , not ENFP. What matters most is the order of the eight cognitive processes, not the order of the letters in the Myers-Briggs type code. ISTJ and ENFP (Keirsey: Anima relationship) actually have considerable common ground (the inversion is only on the four-process level). ISTJ and INFJ (Keirsey: Enigma relationship) have potential friction at every possible point (the inversion is complete on the eight-process level). Cf. Leona Haas, BUILDING BLOCKS OF PERSONALITY TYPE, pp. 128-130, 191.

(Whew! And now you all know better than to trigger me on whatever subject has caught my special interest at any given time…)

Good God…y’all can really read a lot into a comic strip…jeez…I just see a boy being a boy…and enjoying being a boy…with his best freind…no psychological agenda, just a good time…

I am surprised nobody’s mentioned the parallel to the cycles of aid in North Korea and where that’s gotten us.

Wrong lesson, Calvin!

ESFJ myself.

The last panel was quintessential Calvin. Hysterical how the mind of a child works, and how well Watterson knew it.

When Calvin grows up, he becomes a paleontologist, duh!! Hasn’t anyone noticed his love of science? He loves learning about dinosaurs and things, and what he really needs is a teacher who actually does something to nurture his creativity. (Not Ms. Wormwood!) BTW I’m an INTP like Hobbes.