Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for February 04, 2011

There’s a thought!

haha Calvin has his future all mapped out.

This is a very well thought out plan. Good luck……………

As opposed to making Miss Wormwood wish she could retire …

Retire! And stay by Hobbes!

Gee, as an ex teacher I could go for a two day work year.

OH How i wished that when i was about six or so….

G’morning all :)

That makes so much sense!

Retire from what?

well…. his math seems to be alright! :)

Retire? Retire from what?

@rogue and @Frogman Retire from my Dad and snowgoons!!!

Trust in management of God!

Another future high school dropout.

I never saw the value of school until I couldn’t get the kind of challenging work I wanted with the pay that goes with it.

Good Morning, Marg, Mike & ♠Lonewolf♠

Test him and pass him on.

If you ever read any of the comments that people post at the end of Yahoo’s stories, you would realise that there are already mamy who have followed Calvins plan…

Ah! There is the point. The school’s management is responsible for making the school so good that children are raring to go everyday.

I hope Calvin counts his blessings that he wasn’t born in Japan!!! Maybe if American kids were reminded weekly of the Japanese school system, there’d be a lot less complaining…

A teacher like Miss Wormwood is enough to make anyone want to retire!

I haven’t seen snow in over 30 years, so really enjoy the “snowy” strips.

Hola Fer Lefer I only speak a few words of Spanish, and could use some help here (another “snowy” strip): http://www.gocomics.com/espanol/foxtrotespanol/2005/02/04/

Florchi, you should be here. We got over 20 inches of snow Tuesday. It has warmed up, this am it’s 10 degrees instead of yesterday at 4 degrees.

I would have been on board with Calvin’s plan when I was his age, way, way, way, way, way back when. Each way represents a decade. And now each decade goes by faster and faster.

Ahhhhh, to be young and living at home. Never a worry or thought about money, mortgage payments, car payments, college funding for kids, the economy, 401(K) performance…. Man, that would be the life.

Sadly I have a son almost like Calvin were educaion is concerned. I tried to get him for higher education he wouldn’t. Can’t kick him out he would be homeless. He wants to stock shelves thought over thousand applies. He doesn’t do drugs or drink either. More hermit.

@lakesnake Where are you? Great Lakes area? It’s 79 degrees in the shade on my patio right now - I just walked in the park in shorts & shirtsleeves. Calvin would probably hate it here (no snow!). Of course he could probably think of some creative things to do at the beach. I’m in the Ft. Lauderdale, FL, area.

Florchi Those of us who are up North, are more than a little envious right now. If we could visit you now, you can visit us in VT this summer!

As a kid I remember feeling the same way as Calvin. I just wanted to stay home and play with my stuffed toys…only when it was bad weather though, otherwise it was outside with all your friends! Great memories!

Something tells me that once Calvin makes it to Junior High School, he will look forward to going to school – at least just for the shop classes.

Imagine all the things Calvin could make with INDUSTRIAL POWER EQUIPMENT!

I used to live for snow storms at that age, I’d go sledding down a big hill near my house along with every other kid in the area, great fun but now I now I never see snow in south Florida.

Hey–some of us were like Suzy: we liked school, because we got to learn stuff.

Florchi wrote: Hola Fer Lefer I only speak a few words of Spanish, and could use some help here (another “snowy” strip):

I have posted Google’s semi-senseless translation on the comic link you provided above.

All that is going to change when Calvin notices Suzies sweaters do not fit on her like they used to.

If you can find today’s “Dennis the Menace”, which is not on gocomics, he has a good idea combining snow and school.

Good thought Mister Ed! I bet dissecting in biology and chemistry might be up his alley.

I’m in college, and I’m hoping the fatigue won’t cause me to miss to much class.

You got it, Calvin, keep it low and slow - just enough to maintain crusing altitude….

Retired by the third grade? Sweet!!!!!

Florchi and all,

Dania Beach here. Sitting here in a t-shirt and jeans next to an open door at about 7:10 PM. Temperature about 70° F (21° C).

W6BXQ just wondering, do you have homeless people gathered, to sit and watch you eat dinner?

Speaking of snowmen: http://chronicle.com/blogs/tweed/uncivil-engineering-a-chilling-end-for-2-snowmen/28204

Thirdguy,

Nope.

I was in grade school in Tucson where it snowed about once every 5 or 6 years so I never had thoughts about playing in the snow.

You could retire and be in the gutter, Calvin.

In my grandfather’s day he was considered well educated to have made it through the 6th grade. After that he went to work riding logs down the river to the pulp mill. After that he did any job or jobs to provide for his family. When I was a kid he decided he wanted to take the test to be a prison guard. He went to the local library and read all about what he missed in science, history, and math by not going to high school. He studied hard for five years and then took the test to get his high school equivalency. He took the guard’s test and aced it! We were all so proud of what he had accomplished on his own! He retired from the prison and was always being confronted by the guys he guarded who got out of prison who thanked him for his support and for their successful rehabilitation. He was definitely a great role model!

Florchi: I was born and raised in Sarasota, so I know what you mean about not having snow. Of course, Sarasota has the whitest sugar sand of any place and could blind you on a sunny day.

I did venture up to NY and NC a few years here and there, so I knew how much fun snow was, but most of my childhood was spent on the beach and fishing!!!

Calvin you need to learn to write. Then you need to learn to write just like your mom right down to her signature. That’s what I did. Doesn’t work quite as well now, but when you were young. Yup!

yeah!

wait retire? from what?