Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for February 28, 2014

If your best friend can’t get you into trouble, who can?

2,50…..not 2500!!!

Was the bet in bit-coins?

Maybe if YOU were five inches higher, Calvin.

Hobbes has a little ledger to keep track of Calvin’s debt to him.

old dog flunked math. Calvin has lost 100 times unless there are varying amounts of bets.

Calvin may be a great sculptor. But his throwing accuracy is spotty. He misses Susie sometimes too. Must be the pressure with a bet on.

He can’t have lost a $100 bet and only owe 2 dollars 50 cents, unless he had a previous positive balance, and knowing Calvin, that seems unlikely. In the U.S. we use the decimal point to separate dollars and cents, and the comma to separate every three digits left of the decimal (thousands, millions, etc.) So $2,500 here in the U.S. (where this comic was written) is 25 hundred dollars.

The problem is they tried to teach us the conversion ratios, not the measurements. Instead of just saying “another 30 centimeters” (for example) we’d be expected to multiply 5 by some weird number no one can remember. (And I know it’s not close to 6. 4.5 maybe?)

You have no idea just how backwards we are :( . Or bloodthirsty… or self-superior and arrogant…

It’s a DIFFERENT system, not necessarily a backward one. Personally I wish the we in the US would use the metric system like the rest of the world, but it’s what we have for now. SO BACK OFF, little boy.

The mind of Bill Watterson will usually bring a chuckle from my diaphragm. Calvin is a most precious invention and his imagination that makes Hobbes “real” convinces ME!

Calvin is much like a boy cat I once had. Extrenmely powerfulnaughtiness radar for finding mischief to get into, but no manualoverride, as it were, to tell him it might be better if he didn’t….

Calvin has always dealt in quarters, so a hundred bucks is a lifetime of savings shot in one go.I fear a gambling addiction in his future.

Money, schmoney! The real issue here is Calvin blaming Hobbes for getting him in trouble, when the culprit is ….

Way to aim Calvin….

The metric system is a featureless landscape, everything is powers of 10. It is too easy for people to drop a power of 10 or 1000. Powers of 10 are so Roman.

The English system is multicultural, with Saxon base 12 multiples (dozen, gross), base 16, base 20 (score), etc.

An encoding vector for English length units might be 12,3,1760 vs 10,100,1000

Did anyone else see the news that the upcoming documentary “Stripped” features new original artwork from Watterson as well as a recorded interview with him? This is amazing! Here’s the link: New Watterson Artwork

Yeah, Americans are generally totally lost in anything metric, except for the two-liter bottle of soda. I like your screen name. Ertu islendingur?

Very bad move, Calvin.

Even worse that you put a bet on it. Tut Tut!

xxx

Stuart Gathman said…The trouble with some posting on here is that they insist on being so pedantic, their cerebellum gets lodged in their fundamental orifice, as a result, they lose sight of what is relevant to the strip…

Calvin never will be able to pay back all lost bets to Hobbes!Will he have to roast in the hell?

2,500 divided by 100 is 25. olddog1 is correct.

I’ve lived in Europe for many years, having emigrated from the US, so I have a working knowledge of the more common metric measurements; but I still tend to think, “How much is that in REAL measurements?” No doubt emigrés to the US think the same way.####

Similarly, when we say, “The only good [insultingephithet] is a dead [insulting ephithet].” how manyof us stop to think that the [insulting ephithets]probably have a similar opinion of our group?

Just sayin’.

Oh Calvin dude you are in trouble. I would stop betting if I were you.

Lol