Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for May 13, 2010

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    margueritem  over 14 years ago

    Staples sound like a better plan…

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    GROG Premium Member over 14 years ago

    I love it! Stick your tongue out at him Suzie!

    Good Morning, Marg!

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    Vista Bill Raley and Comet™  over 14 years ago

    Calvin’s having quite a time with his collection. I wonder what Mrs. Wormwood will think of it?

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    jorgefdz  over 14 years ago

    Mhh… i’m sure that calvin would get an “A” in arts and “D” in science…

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    carmy  over 14 years ago

    How about a hot glue gun?

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    margueritem  over 14 years ago

    ‘Morning Grog, and an early ‘hello’ to Mike Firesmith and Lucas.

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    MontanaLady  over 14 years ago

    Calvin can borrow her paste, until he gets that uncontrollable urge to eat it…………!

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    COWBOY7  over 14 years ago

    Take her advice, Calvin!

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    asc688  over 14 years ago

    Calvin creativity is in progress….. If only Hobbes besides, I’m sure its a done deal already.

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    moronbis  over 14 years ago

    stapler?? where are the PETA guys? poor worms, wriggling while stationary..

    love Calvin’s expressions in third panel

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    Rakkav  over 14 years ago

    The facial expressions in this strip, by every character in it, are simply masterful. Suzie’s expression of disgust is worth honors from the National Cartoonists Society all by itself.

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    twinsnake_coatl  over 14 years ago

    How about a welder?

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    kreole  over 14 years ago

    Keeps getting better……

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    mike.firesmith  over 14 years ago

    Good morning Marg! Good morning Fran and KIzzzy!

    At this point he might want to try hauling in a car radiator and hoping for the best.

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    JTGAM  over 14 years ago

    Good morning all! You know, this all appears to be an exagerated joke but it represents the literal truth. I have students who literally do their assignments in the car, bus, etc and first 10 minutes of class. Needless to say they end up in the round file. I don’t know if Miss Wormwood is going to laugh or cry at this one.

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    CalvinsFan1845  over 14 years ago

    Where’s mom when you need her.

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    RavennaAl  over 14 years ago

    Calvin should have found a spider. Then he could tell the teacher that his homework ate his other homework.

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    rentier  over 14 years ago

    Homework ate homework, wonderful good idea!

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    idaho6  over 14 years ago

    poindexter is correct. Some of those projects looked just like Calvins.

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    lewisbower  over 14 years ago

    Pop rivet gun, hammer and nail, legally binding contract.

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    lazygrazer  over 14 years ago

    If he gets those body parts mixed up he’ll rattle the scientific community to the core….

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    sfbell3  over 14 years ago

    hey all. thinking about getting my bro a framed comic strip for his graduation. got any ideas for a good one of calvin and hobbs?

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    lobkiller  over 14 years ago

    moronbis

    the worm was already dead, drowned, for three days.”

    Guess Taxidwormy is not in Calvin’s career path at this point!

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    jeffsxq  over 14 years ago

    sfbell3…. The strip I have displayed on my wall (not exact quotes): Miss Wormwood: Any questions? Calvin: What is the point of human existence? Miss Wormwood: I meant regarding the current subject. Calvin (to himself): Frankly, I’d like to have the issue resolved before I expend any more energy on this.

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    Puddleglum2  over 14 years ago

    @sfbell3, Calvin and Hobbes Panel 1 Calvin: I don’t want to go to school. I don’t want to know anything new. Panel 2 Calvin: I already know more than I want to! I liked things better when I didn’t understand them! Panel 3 Calvin: The fact is, I’m being educated against my will! My rights are being trampled! Panel 4 Hobbes: Is it a right to remain ignorant? Calvin: I don’t know, but I refuse to find out!

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    comic.gurl  over 14 years ago

    ^ lol

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    Rakkav  over 14 years ago

    @sfbell3: Those are all good choices, but leaving aside the very last strip, I’d find the very first of the arc in which Calvin uses his transmogrifier to bring out his good side as a separate being.

    The first three frames introduce Calvin neatly dressed, with neatly combed hair, calmly announcing his intentions to do his homework, take a bath and go to bed on time (or something close to that). The last frame has Mom shouting: “WHAT ARE YOU UP TO?” :))

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    kab2rb  over 14 years ago

    Poindexter what state do you teach in? I read your bio and I like comics to. Here in KS I am not a teacher but work at a place where they have the local school at and between the Governor and Superintendent with the news there has been a lot of cuts. Calvin you some what remind me of my son he would not do his homework would work outside in the hallway in Jr. high. His sister the opposite brought homework home and did it. Went to college and received an Associate her brother wouldn’t go to WATC I tried to get him to go.

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    musicnut1986  over 14 years ago

    Mike Firesmith said, a couple of colorful platitudes ago

    “At this point he might want to try hauling in a car radiator and hoping for the best. ”

    Love it! What a wonderful mental inage.

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    freeholder1  over 14 years ago

    (Cut 25 jobs in our small system, aides and newer teachers. Keep cutting taxes and maybe they’ll save enough to send their kids to private schools. Never seem to understand the fat cats cut meat instead of fat.)

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    ratlum  over 14 years ago

    Maybe thats why I did not like school in the early yrs.Bugs?

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    aelwero  over 14 years ago

    sfbell3, sounds like a good beginning to “post your favorite CnH episode” thread….

    Personally… my favorite is a spaceman spiff… he’s careening out of control about to crash on a planet, is counting down the seconds to a crashing impact and is jolted awake by miss wormwood, on snapping awake he shouts SEVEN! (because that’s where he was in the countdown) and is given “three points” by miss wormwood for a correct answer, and segways straight into having made a perfect “three point landing”.

    I found an image of it here: http://lesinge.org/ch/86/ch861130.gif

    More freem drive to the thruster blasters!

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    Mythreesons  over 14 years ago

    My choice for a graduate would be the very final Sunday strip when we grieved it was ending. I still have my copy, Dec 31, 1995. “World brand new, clean start, day full of possibilities, Magical world, Let’s go exploring.” See if those tags help, and congratulations to your brother.

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    sfbell3  over 14 years ago

    great guys thanks. all great ideas. i’ve got it down to three now. check it out if any of you guys have a sec.

    April 17, 1986 - hobbes lying on the ground

    April 17, 1988 - wagon over the cliff

    Dec 31, 1995 - let’s go exploring

    Any votes?

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    mrslukeskywalker  over 14 years ago

    Place them all in a row, put the staples around their necks, and draw a big gallows with a hanging station for each bug. Miss Wormwood will LOVE that! That’s a brilliant presentation. She’ll never guess it was just done this morning.

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    Mythreesons  over 14 years ago

    Of course I have a vote!! Dec 31, 1995 INTO THE FUTURE

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    JTGAM  over 14 years ago

    I agree with the Dec 31st, 1995. Beautiful message ( but Oh so sad for us C and H fans). As far as my favorite arc, and it doesn’t have to do with graduation, sorry sfbell3, that wold be the one where Hobbes gives Calvin a “haircut”. It still makes me laugh so hard I cry. I have never been able to see the word weed-eater and not start laughing again since then.

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    mike.firesmith  over 14 years ago

    Thank you musicnut!

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    moronbis  over 14 years ago

    @aelwero very nice link…

    I have never read a strip with Calvin on the victorious side…

    @RavennaAl good one :)

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    lindz.coop Premium Member over 14 years ago

    @sfbell3 – one of the snowmen monstrosities would be great!

    This is just grade school, I’ve had college teaching assistants who thought they could put their part of the lecture together out in the hall while the class they were supposed to present it in was going on.

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    avonsalis  over 14 years ago

    Yeah, Lindz … but the teaching assistants can tell stories too: My sister got a masters in history which included being a prof’s teaching assistant for History 101. Over the course of a year or two she collected enough one-sentence excerpts from the college students (each one practically too preposterous to believe) to assemble an entire History of the World several pages long. You know, in the middle ages life was a doggy dog world, and all that stuff. My favorite sentence: “Jesus Christ is thought to be one of the principal figures in Christianity.”

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    lindz.coop Premium Member over 14 years ago

    Boy do I know that – when I was a TA, I never found out just whom it was that I was the assistant to – I simply taught the entire course and gave out the grades as well. I was it!

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    mrslukeskywalker  over 14 years ago

    Avon, can you SAY Jesus Christ in a school anymore without being fired and arrested? Isn’t he what CHRISTianity is about? And why can’t people who don’t get it just shut up and mind their own satanic business?

    Other than that, I remember many “teachers” who thought as adults and couldn’t get through to children, which was their job. That’s why the kids can’t pass the tests, and why certain teachers don’t deserve higher salaries or tenure.

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    deanomattic  over 14 years ago

    my cerebellum has fused

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    masterturtle  over 14 years ago

    i agree fried cellery is a good snak for this turtle.

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