Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 27, 2020

Why some people should have unlisted numbers.

Know of any snowy areas where there’s no such thing as “snow days” which close schools?

Make your own snow Calvin, and pour it all over the school. Maybe that will get school cancelled.

Calvin still has to go to school the day after Thanksgiving?

How did a crabby guy get to be President?

Does Calvin have a friend , Susie apart , to talk to ?

And I  wonder how Calvin got his phone number.

What was that superintendent thinking, giving out his number to the kids?

Why does Calvin’s family still have a rotary phone?

Strips like these make me wonder how Calvin (and his parents for that matter) would have handled COVID-19. Could you imagine the hilarious hijinks that would have ensued?

Here, the threat of any unpleasant weather is sufficient to cancel school or close early. No child shall be left behind – stranded at school. It’s okay to do so from home.

There are special classes for that, Calvin.

“Makes me wonder how a guy as crabby as he got to be superintendent.

“Honey, don’t answer the phone…it’s that Calvin kid again, calling to see if I’m going to cancel school today!”

He put it on his resume.

We had a superintendent who didn’t believe in snow days (I’m in NH). There were days when it was bad & I hated sending my daughters to school. He soon got voted out. The one before him called snow days at the slightest sight of a snowflake. The one we have now had found the perfect middle-ground…but then Covid happened & the schools all went remote.

I like how quickly Calvins face goes from enthusiasm to anger.

how in the heck does he have the super’s number

In these days of Zooming/home schooling, will there EVER be a snow day again? That’s sad.

How did he get the superintendent’s number?

As a retired Superintendent – this gave me a belly laugh.

In these days of enlightenment the doting parents would burn down the Superintendent’s house.

when I was in school, in lower NY our superintent was from northern caada, for HIM to consider it too bad for school meant the snw as apocalyptic. many years later working for an annutiy company he called in-he had a very distinctive name so i asked “did you use to be the superintendent for a new york school district?” it was him and we actually had a good laugh over it all.

Calvin may turn out to be right. There’s enough snow in tomorrow’s strip for him and Hobbes to sledge on.

Distance learning is a thing now. No more snow days. Your homework will just be online. Source: I am a teacher.

He was a lousy teacher so he became an administrator

For the benefit of the younger readers, this strip is a blast from the past. Once upon a time, everyone with a telephone number was listed in a directory called a “phone book”, unless they paid extra money to the phone company to have an “unlisted number”. All telephone service subscribers in the service area received a copy of “The Phone Book”. All Calvin had to do was look up the superintendent’s name in the phone book, and see both his phone number and address.

Old fogies like us were already married with children when this strip started… and we remember when the world actually looked like the “past” sequence in the first “Back to the Future” movie.

We laughed hilariously over this strip- thanks, Bill. :)(:

In my whole life, I think we got maybe a dozen snows days in OKC.

We were told in Alaska they sometimes close the schools for sun days, because it rains/ snows there so much. Really makes you want to live in Alaska, eh?

Maybe the Super figured out it was just Hobbes standing on the roof pouring potato flakes past his window…

In the days before caller-ID.

who are you dudes