Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for October 08, 2015

When life gives me lemons, I squeeze some juice into my vodka.

I prefer to make lemon pickle (limbacha loncha). Every summer, I put a jar of lemon slices, spices, sugar and salt in a sunny window, and remember to shake it twice a day. In six weeks, I have a delicious condiment that lasts all winter. You can find a fail-safe recipe on Indian Food Rocks.

But lemonade tastes horrible if you don’t add a a lot of sugar to it.

All those lemons make Calvin a sourpuss. Maybe, as Bilan hints, a spoon full of sugar will make the citrus juice go down.

When life gives me lemons, I take them! Free lemons!

I’ll make limoncello instead.

As Ron White once said: “When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Then find someone who’s life handed them Vodka and have a party”

Calvin looks like a lemon.

I prefer to continue visualising the conceptualisation process. Boy, that sounds like me.

We used to get daily spelling tests in my Primary school in Scotland. The teacher would get us to swap the test with guy in next desk who would mark it. Once my friend and I grasped that if we just gave eachother 7-8 out of ten the teacher would never check the marking……….not too high to get paise not too low to get punished……..we did this for several years and never got caught………downside for this brilliance is that my spelling was bad…..but then someone invented spell check and all is good :)

When life gives you lemons, ask yourself, “Did I ask for lemons?” If not, send them back and go out and find what you asked for. Life doesn’t actually care what you want…or even need for that matter. Its up to you to toss out the lemons and find what you want for yourself.

If Calvin doesn’t start smiling he is going to turn into an Old Curmudgeon!!!!

Cave Johnson: “When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!”

It would be better to use those lemons to make lemon squares.

Visualizing the Conceptualization Process!!! Beauty. I’m gonna save that and use with my boss…

Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! Cute, Calvin! Re-e-e-eal cu-u-u-u-te!

I’d rather have gin with my lemonade. I’ll call it…um…Tom Collins.

LeadingEdge said, about 18 hours ago@neverenoughgoldYou are living in Never-Never Land…

Let’s see. Snowmen attack, dinosaurs roam the earth, space aliens invade, stuffed tigers come alive… Sounds like Never Never Land to me.

Ha ha ha, very good! Of course, there is a subtle difference between Never Never Land and Calvinville…

“Visualizing the conceptualization process” — that sounds like it’s straight out of Dilbert (though this probably predates Dilbert).

Calvin is Mr. Sunshine

As for the leaf collection – this won’t help this year, butinclude poison ivy, poison oak, itchweed, and possibly some horseweed (looks similar to MJ) and the kids will be spared that assignment next year(the teacher didn’t specify TREE leaves?)

Apparently, My face is like a lemon when I have to get up early.

But I don’t believe that.

xxx

Ok. Thanks for the tip.

I remember the teacher giving us the assignment one Friday to find as many different kinds of leaves as we could during the weekend and bring them on Monday. I lived 20 miles in the country on a cattle ranch. We had two kinds of trees. Elm and Cotton. We went nowhere that weekend. Needless to say; my collection looked pretty pathetic. To make it worse; for some reason our trees had not started to turn yet and I had to pick green leaves. The kids in town had all colors.

The mud monster used to procrastinate like Calvin. Then, at about 2200 the night before something was due, she’d spring it on me. I used to type and proofread her stuff, and maybe make a few suggestions. (SHE did the grunt work!)

Wouldn’t have been too much pain, but about 2205 my wife’d be banging on the door hollering for the kid to go to bed. She really didn’t understand how her daughter worked….

This continued, BTW, via “GoToMyPC” and cheap LD until the kid graduated from Nursing School. (Those papers were very complex. We had a long-standing rule that I had to understand them.)

Just grab some leaves, Calvin!

What Calvin needs to do is to play some Calvinball, and get into the collection zone.

When life gives you lemons… get mad. Make a combustible lemon and burn life’s house down!

When life gives you lemons squeeze it back into lifes eyes the hell am I supposed to do with lemons come back when your handing out free money