Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for April 30, 2021

Just move to the right and let him through.

Of course Calvin would know what a siren sounds like.

Kids need a…..mute button.

oh, what did the mother need her son to come in for?

My son cried such of loud, when he was a baby, it was not to bear!!

Another sound from Calvin’s siren will cause mom to have chronic tinnitus.

And people wonder why they only had one.

I would have enjoyed, I think, working with young children, before they get all twisted by society, but I simply cannot possible deal with their high-pitched (and loud) voices. Even with my own, the phrase “Use your INSIDE voice!” became very common at our house.

Calvin is the reason why birth control was invented!!!

Every time I see the Emergency Alert System test on TV I’m reminded of this. https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1987/02/21

Yeah, he’s the only kid in history to make loud noises. What a monster.

A bell might have been better.

I can’t wait for him to back up!

I bet the sound that Calvin made in this strip would be right up there with Jim Carrey’s “Most annoying sound in the world” from “Dumb and Dumber”. I wonder what Calvin can do for an encore?

I had one kid just like this. He’s improved over time, but still a brat. :D

I have sometimes argued in support of Bill Watterson’s claim that he never saw Hobbes as a figment of Calvin’s imagination by pointing out that I wondered about this before Watterson confirmed this as Hobbes seems to know things that Calvin doesn’t know. Someone replied two days ago that I can’t provide any actual incidents where Hobbes has known something that Calvin couldn’t either know or imagine.

One example I can give is the time that Hobbes was invited to Susie’s party and told he could bring “that dumb kid” if he must. Calvin and Hobbes were separated for a time while at the party. When they were reunited, Calvin hoped that there would be a good cake.

Hobbes: I saw it earlier. It was chocolate.

Calvin: Good! Did you get a slice?

Hobbes: It was delicious!

Susie called from outside the panel, “Hey! Who’s eaten my cake!”

The suggestion was that Hobbes ate the cake and Calvin hadn’t even seen it but I expect that some people will insist that Calvin must have eaten the cake and therefore knew the answer to the question that he asked Hobbes.

My five-year-old granddaughter likes to sneak up on me when I’m working in my home office. She’s terrible at it but it makes her happy when she thinks she’s “scared” me.

You have to annunciate it out loud to get the full effect, give it a try!

Calvin is unfamiliar with the expression: Children should be seen but not heard.

How the parents even get sleep is beyond me…

I’m thinking some kids could be used as sirens. Particularly the squealers.

The letter size implies the Doppler effect. Very nice.

I have a cat who has a “siren meow” that means she’s coming back with prey. One day I listened to her “siren” for half an hour while she wrestled a dead rabbit over the back fence. In the wild, I’m sure it serves to get the kittens ready for their dinner.

It’s the sound needed in the maternity ward. If not the bedroom some months before.

gee mom, he was just trying to be helpful %

LOL! I like to picture that Calvin’s legs are moving much faster in the second panel than in the first and third.

A kid being a kid, get over it.

One of Sheldon’s “Car Games”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqh8PiCZCd4

OTOH, if he’s silent, we know Calvin’s going to be in big trouble in three… two… one….

Keep it that way Calvin, if you do not want a sibling.

Give him a megaphone.

I have to disagree with Mom here, tornado warnings save lives.

He drew in the Doppler Effect. Clever.

Don’t think Mom wishes to a-wail of his services!

Babies and kids yelling and shreking make no sense. Pre-civilization humans barely had the means to protect themselves – a crying baby or yelling kid would be a tasty snack for the first large animal to hear it. According to evolution, we should have learned to be as quiet as possible as kids in order for the species to survive. Baby animals stay hidden and quiet so as not to attract predators, so why didn’t humans?

I don’t know… it might be nice to know that they are coming.

My siren goes off every evening at 5:29 – alerting me to turn off the tv before the national news begins.