Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 08, 2020

There’s a way it can register faster but you probably won’t like it, Calvin.

Ah, we’re at the start of the Snow Goons collection.

Luckily, I don’t get sick often, so I never had this problem during summer vacation. Unfortunately, that meant I didn’t miss school much. That didn’t stop me from faking an “upset stomach” from time to time >: )

Clever way to shut him up….

Oh, no! Calvin has the ’rona!!!!!!!!!!!

Should’ve stopped doing your usual gross stuff, Calvin.

One year at the beginning of summer vacation my 3 sisters got the measles and I didn’t! I never got them.

At least with this you’re excused from chores, Calvin.;-D

Sneaky mom, that’s one way to hush him up, and keep him in one place. :P

Well done Mom…

This will turn up the heat when he realizes…

Good one mum. Calvin rests & so does mum. It’s a win-win situation.

No time now for a heated debate, Calvin!

Lookin’ for some peace and quiet!

It’s as good of a gag as tape—-and it’s perfectly legal!

“…and I’ll check on you in the middle of August!”

Mom just performed a Sheldon ectomy…of sorts…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpRga2II67c

It could be worse kid. You could be sick AND have a rectal thermometer. Gad, I’m glad they aren’t using those at the airport.

Nice and quiet? Hahahahahaha.

Dang! She’s good!

Did you remember to shake it down, Mom?

For some reason I don’t remember this one at all. It’s a hoot!

Mama’s a smart one!

Yep – that’s a genuine therMOMeter…

Just be glad she is using the “oral” thermometer…

Sounds like ‘mom’ is an HMO

Look far in to the future, Calvin, and you’ll see that temperatures will be taken instantly without being touched and get you dumped somewhere worse than your mom’s couch.

Really, those older thermometers took two hours to register? Maybe I’m so used to electronic thermometers I forgot what it was like…

Mom now gets peace while Calvin is missery.

I always wonder what the adult Calvin would be doing with his life.

Gonna buy me a mercury (thermometer.)

Not every infectious agent manifests itself in an elevated temperature; the common cold rarely if ever does.

Better use a rectal thermometer on him.

Calvin’s mom and Hobbes share the same smile

You have to give Mom credit for finding a good way to get some quiet out of Calvin. Wonder if other parents have tried this.

Pretty good one, for a woman who does not know her own damn name!

This should be included in the “fibs our parents told us” series that the folks over at Baldo like to run from time to time.

In the 1950s parents encouraged their kids to play with an infected kid, so that they would catch the infection and “get it over with”. My little sister caught mumps. The doctor said that I would get it either for my birthday or the school holidays. I didn’t think much of either option, so I decided I wouldn’t get it at all. Although I was with my sister constantly, reading stories to her and doing jig-saw puzzles, I never caught mumps – ever.

One time, during the school year, I gave it the usual three minutes and saw that it was reading 98.8. So I put it under the hot water in the bathroom. Blew the top out of it. Woops. Got the lecture and had to go to school.

Great expression on Calvin in panel four!

Forgive my ignorance but is there a term for someone who refuses to realize that there absolutely are methods to determine your health? Sure, mom still is a little old school the the mercury thermometer, but it works!