Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 06, 2016

“You can set the price if you can hot wire the car.”

That’s our boy!Classic Calvin.

I guess the customer gets a little birdsong with the car.

I don’t think Calvin has thought about what their family having no car means, for example personally for him. How do groceries get home, will they have to take BIKE now for outings, etc. (Well, I don’t know about their family situation much, either, I am just assuming that car was actually necessary for something.)

So what he’s selling is a cheep?

An inexpensive Jeep!

You’ve never research the price of grenade launchers, have you, Calvin?

A grenade launcher! Got a specific purpose in mind, like for use against Moe? Start with learning to use a slingshot.

Mom doesn’t ask enough questions.

It takes an awful lot of work, trying to avoid work…

No War Bonds ? Now, that is just plain unpatriotic mom !

I’ve read of one party in a divorce selling the other’s car this way.

Calvin, I thought you were always asking about how much you wanted to drive the car.

Till then, practice throwing baseballs and perfect accuracy at 100 yards.

Calvin should try having a birthday in December! I know you have to wait all year round for any birthday but birthdays in December seem to take forever to come.

(My birthday is December 16th)xxx

Well you gotta admit, what Calvin lacks in financial resources he makes up for with ingenuity…

Red flags should have instantly popped up in Mom’s mind the moment Calvin asked for soap, of all things…

LeadingEdge said, about 11 hours ago@neverenoughgoldYou had three rails; I had two…

Doesn’t the 2 rail system mean HO scale? That’s real cool stuff!My Lionel locomotive was a 4-6-4, made smoke, had a working headlight and it was the coal car that made the whistle – all highly detailed…

It is a bit complicated and also a bit confusing; but as I recall, Lionel typically used a three rail track set and American Flyer used two. In the mid 20th century, the HO scale was created, but didn’t become big until sometime in the later part of the century. I always thought HO meant 1/2 O scale.

Lionel, which used the three rail track system, was a lot more popular than American Flyer for reasons unknown to me. Eventually, Lionel purchased AF and I’m not sure where the company is today. Anyway, when I was in my early teens, I “graduated” from the American Flyer setup and got involved with HO model trains. At the time, there was a huge amount of activity in model railroading, and frankly, HO did not require as much “real estate” as O did!

As time went on, I also got into Aurora Model Motoring, and incorporated the MM roadways into my HO railroad setup. It was a pretty nice layout, with a mountain and tunnel and a variety of switches, etc. I wish I had thought enough to save some photos of the thing; but unfortunately, I didn’t! After moving out of the house when I graduated from college, my Mom wanted to clear the stuff out of the basement, and I foolishly sold the entire setup to an enthusiast. It was quite a task to disassemble the layout and get it out of the house…

Middle grandson to the tee.

I tried selling my sister once. Nobody wanted her either.

I still have my 1950-something Marx O-gauge in the original box. Dread to think what it would have been worth if I hadn’t painted the cars!

i dont get it… plz someone reply to me and answer