Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for February 18, 2017

To be fair, he did do that effectively.

If the house does, one day, cave in you can be sure that Calvin will be the cause of it.

And someday, when his head gets caved in, she’ll be responsible!

First frame… typewriter with paper. Ah. Memories.

I still think this one is funny :)

I can just imagine what that typewriter line (or lines) looks like. Let’s hope she had delete in that era.

@FARSIDE99

Delete in those days was called Witeout®.

How will the house cave in?

Last panel sounds like a threat

Gerald McBoing-Boing used to do that to his dad. Got a very similar reaction. Kids

If the house ever caved in, it would be Calvin’s fault.

@LWP

Delete in those days was called Witeout®.

I have a vague memory of what was before Wite-Out®. It was a kind of “errata strip” that you jammed in front of the typing paper and hit the same wrong key again, which would cover up the error.

The only delete with a typewriter was to rip the paper out of the machine or use whiteout! Wordprocessors, on the other hand, had a delete function.

Funny…that’s what happened to me when I tried that as a kid…

This is way better than a typewriter, even the Selectric which I loved. As long as you can print it its easier.

Mom’s being unfair here. She had been warned BEFORE the test started.

I did something similar to my father once.

Once!

BRAAAACK!This has been a Gonelrad test alertHad this been an actual alertYou would all be dead now!

“A LACK OF PLANNING ON YOUR PART DOESN’T CONSTITUTE AN EMERGENCY ON MINE.” A Statement heard often by my Children!

Six blocks from where i grew up, there is a WWII-era diesel-powered rotating emergency alert klaxon on a 40 foot high platform.

Every wednesday at noon, it would sound for 60 sec., let us know that it’s functioning properly, & let us know it’s the middle of the workweek.

If it ever runs out of fuel, Calvin could take over!

Calvin would make a fantastic Fire Alarm.

xxx

Remember when they would interrupt TV shows to test that thing way back in the day?

Remember “answering machines”? I recorded a message on mine that said: “This is a test of The Emergency Broadcast System. For the next 60 seconds, you will be tested on your ability to leave your name, number, and a brief message. Remember, this is only a test. If this was a real emergency, WE WOULD HAVE CALLED YOU!”