Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 18, 2014

Calvin did tell the truth; he wasn’t quite finished. He also hadn’t started.

Typical! LOL! I remember making dioramas when I was a kid. I thought what I had made was so cool…but, when I found one after high-school, it wasn’t “cool” to my 18-year-old-thinking! I also found some things I had made somewhere along the way when in elementary school…same thing…but at least I could enjoy it, unlike the diorama! ;)

Three guesses who Calvin expects will do the actual ‘building’ of ‘his’ project….

d i y…?

@leftwingpatriot: Calvin told the truth? By telling the teacher that he wasn’t quite finished, Calvin implied that the project was almost done. Then again, since Calvin puts so little time into his homework, technically, the project is almost done.

I admit it. As soon as I read “roadrunner” I was expecting a Wile E. Coyote reference.

Sounds like what my daughter used to do at that age.

I still have a couple of projects that my daughter and grandson did when they were about Calvin’s age.

There were always at least 3 or 4 kids whose science projects were obviously made by the parents, with little or no effort by the kid. Sucked for the rest of us. I’ve always wondered why teachers don’t make an effort to disallow that sort of thing…..

Like, my annotated collection of leaves or bugs compared to Johnny’s totally functional, motorized model of the solar system………… yeah, right.

Capnduzzi, a roadrunner is a bird that runs around the desert. In the old cartoons, a coyote(Wile E.) constantly chased it, could never catch it. It went BeepBeep! I’ve seen a number of roadrunners and none of them say BeepBeep! They just scurry away.

A friend had a "69 Roadrunner that went Beep Beep.

You have the rest of the day to git er done.

Wow! I had no idea you could make a Roadrunner from “glue and paper and stuff”!.I’d rather have a Mustang, Calvin. Can you make me a Mustang? I’d like a red one; a convertible with the really big engine…

Calvin and his pet tiger Hobbes are working on a school project with help from Uncle Max.

Been here before; One Courtroom, One Fort, and OneCastle (1/60" Scale including out buildings and moat!). Thankfully only three kids. Sigh.

Save yourself some work Calvin. Go visit Petey Otterloop in the strip Cul de Sac. He has at least 25 dioramas under his bed which he could lend you!

Someday I intend to join the Procrastinator’s Club.

Only in Calvin’s time will things get accomplished. Lol

Yeah that’s usually the case, eh, Calvin?

xxx

thats soooo cute

Happy birthiversary C&H! Today, in 1985, the first C&H cartoon was published.

Never do today what you can put off ’til tomorrow!

Not quite!!

@rgcviper: I intended to share that Ziggy earlier, but I never got around to it.

The mud monster was pretty good at coming to me about 2200 to help with an unstarted project due tomorrow…. The most fun was having my wife scream at her to go to bed as we tried to make some progress. The kid eventually figured it out. But she did enjoy watching her mom explode….

(I used to type and spellcheck her stuff. Made her write them, though.)

On the “daddy built it” – never happened for me when I was small, but I did help her with a couple of “projects” – two stand out. In one case, we ended up with a waterfall that actually was supposed to work. An aquarium pump…. Couldn’t test it because there was no way to dry it out so she could take it to school, and it really was only supposed to work once…..

Another time, she wanted to make a “donkey cart” full of flowers. How much trouble would that be?…. We had a little table-top cart in the garage that was intended for a plant or two and didn’t have to make a donkey. But, she didn’t want to use that…. $50 later, with me doing the power saw work, and her doing about everything else, we had one. Looked OK…. Another kid in the class got a ribbon for using that same type of little cart we’d rejected….

Then there was the kid, back when I was in High School, who entered complete set of Heathkit Ham Radio gear he’d built from a kit. He won…. My scratch-built project (from a magazine article) was un-noticed. Can’t complain, though – it was a lot easier to haul to the school than his stuff….

calvin you slinky son of a no-no word