Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 03, 2010

Could our hero possibly be trying to plant ideas? Well, it was worth a shot. Now, back to bed. Need to be ready to get up in the morning.

Just in case.

Gee, I wonder.

Anyone know the date of St Nicholaus’ Day? Dec. 6th?

Such a kid! I remember hoping, hoping for a snow day.

I grew up in the eastern snow belt. They never closed the schools where I was a student. Drats!!

Yeah, after spending decades working his way up through the ranks, as teacher, vice-principal, principal, dealing with Calvins every step of the way – why would he possible be crabby when one of them calls him late at night???

Crabbiness is a requirement of the position, Calvin.

Good Morning, Marg, Mike & Lonewolf

Crabby probably did the same when he was a “Calvin”

Right Marg ,Dec 6 ,Advent season..

Great (albeit coincidental) timing of this strip considering the weather chaos in the UK at the moment - wonder how many kids would like to make the same call as Calvin!

.too early to phone ……..he is nicer at 3pm

It’s either two situations with me-there will be an inch of snow and they call the whole day off, or there will be several feet of snow and they have the equipment to clear it and we go to class anyway.

Calvin will catch a cold wearing pyjamas with short sleeves in winter, when it is snowing!!

MARG, will I get a grant from St. Nicholaus? Oh, please!

Ive done That before…

Random Bible Verse!

Psalms 23:1-3 The lord is my Sheperd; i shall not Want He Makes me lie down in Green Pastures.He leads me Besides still Waters. He Restores my soul.He leads me in Paths Of Righteousness for His Name Sake.

What’s wrong with wearing short sleeve pjs in winter … my snow shovelling attire consists of shorts, t-shirt and sandals (shoes if it’s slushy snow)

Good thing for Calvin that this classic strip was drawn back in the days before Caller I.D.

good morning!!! my first hello. glad it doesn’t snow in Maine—until St.Nicks Day!

I grew up in North Dakota and it took snow of monumental proportions to close schools. Now I am in the PNW and it takes very little because of all the ice we get with freezing warming and then freezing again.

Well, he certainly didn’t get to be Superintendent by watching the snow asit fell.

We lived in a very ruraL district. When it snowed, our superintendent was out early in hisJeep driving the gravel back roads to see how they were.

margueritem, in case nobody answered your question, yes, St. Nicholas’ Day is December 6. Incidentally, he was Bishop of Myra in what is now Turkey and died December 6, 346.

puddleglum2 (see yesterday’s comment) and I wish I had been in a bubble bath! My life has been insane!

As for the comic… My dad was on the PTA at my school, so my dad got to help make this call!!! I didn’t get to give my opinion, because usually he had to get up at like 4 in the morning to make it!!

In the piedmont of NC, we have had school closings for just the treat of snow. The next day, no snow. To make up for that we had school on an icy day and then had numerous bus accidents.

In Belt Mt. the best we could hope for was the bus wouldn’t start when the temp. got around 20 below. Or a pipe would freeze.

When I started school our super would call a snow day almost at the drop of a hat. Then the district hired a fellow who grew up in Canada, and the number of snow days dropped significantly, significantly. But we got out of school a little earlier in the summer …

Lived 5 miles from KI Sawyer SAC base in upper peninsula, Michigan. Schools were never closed because they had to keep the roads cleared so that the airforce personnel could get to the base. Rats! Believe me, they had some serious snow removing equipment!

The number of snow days i got over my 12 years of school was a single digit. Even if every school around us closed, we usually were open.

This one just kills me!

rshive same here, our Superintendent does a drive around the county before he makes the call, unless of course, it’s already been snowing for hours, then they call it the night before.

Calvin just has a knack for bringing out the crabbiness in someone, especially at some ungodly hour of the night.

I think I saw the grown-up Calvin in a TV Car Commercial very recently. He gets ‘snow-balled’ by his neighbor’s kid while the neighbor smirks and says “See you at the Office”. Next we see him on a snow-covered slope sending a small snowball down the hill that nicely takes out the neighbors’ parked car.

Doesn’t that sound like a grown-up Calvin?

Crabbyness is an article of the faith.

Wait an hour and call again, Calvin. LOL

G’Morning, Grog, Marg, Mike & everyone!

TGIF!!!

I forgot just how great this strip was.

We never had a snow day where I went to school – no snow in Miami! But we had hurricane days several times. The bad news was that we had to make up the lost days at the end of the school year…Rats!! :-(

margueritem..twice in a row. Not good. ; )

I was very lucky, I live in Virginia, and I can remember both snow days and hurricane days!!!! My senior year, they even cancelled final exams because we missed so many days that year!!

Superintendents are very often crabby,they get the jobs by pretending to be nice guys or gals .

That’ll show Mr. Crabby Superintendent to have his phone number listed in the book for all the Calvins in his district to look up and call on nights like this!!!!!

I know what you mean Yukoner- except for the Easter snow belt part. We went to Man Schools when I was a teenager; they didn’t close for anything.

Its nice to see that Calvin and Hobbes are still alive and tickling after all these years

Presumably the superintendent has “snow” knowledge of who Calvin really is…..

margueritem said, about 15 pleas ago

Anyone know the date of St Nicholaus’ Day? Dec. 6th?

It sure is!

I agree that, in the Dakota, N. Illinois, or other parts of the Snow Belt, one inch will likely not, of itself, close schools. In fact we have a lot of southern workers out here for the oilfields in West Dakota, and one of them was highly incensed a few weeks back–it was snowing (about a half inch) and they were not closing the schools!!!

yo, Twypsi! I went to MTU (and married a Soo guy), so I’ve seen that Serious Snow Removing Equipment in action - and have SEEN Serious Snowfall! Ahhh, those were the days, weren’t they? I don’t think public school was cancelled in the Keweenaw, either, during the 4 years I was there….

Its actually easier to drive in snow when the temperature is very low. We were driving around northern Minn in below zero temps. It was like driving on sand.

In areas with freeze and thaw or snow just at freezing, the problem is the ice. Its like driving in a 7/11 slurpey.

The DC area can be paralyzed by 1 inch of snow. But that’s because the roads are overcrowded to begin with and the population is from everywhere in the world.

@ellisaana, not to mention that they not only mostly don’t know how to drive on snow, the government doesn’t have the equipment to get it cleared in a timely manner.

I seem to recall a decent number of snow days when I was growing up in Maumee, OH. And our weather usually didn’t get as severe as quickly as Detroit or Buffalo (the storm tracks that clobbered them didn’t get us until later in the winter). I suspect the City of Maumee is more efficient about such things in these latter days…

Oh, BTW, that was way back when dinosaurs ruled the earth in the eyes of this generation: the 1960’s.

We get closed for hurricanes around here! And flooding! And a whole lot more than 1/2 inch! Have a great week end everyone! I am off to Mexico City! ¡Adios!

I have a debate tournament tomorrow and I’ve already gotten worried calls from schools who don’t get the kind of snow we do in the lake effect snow belt. But oh well, the 8 inches predicted isn’t supposed to hit till tomorrow night. Happens every year! Unlike Calvin, I liked school in the winter…it was the summer make-up days that were and still are a real joy! (Mucho sarcasm)

Growing up in Wyoming the only time school would be closed was if there was a blizzard after it snowed three feet….and sometimes not even then!

Reminds me of one day. All indications were that the next day was not going to be a snow day. The next morning, the news said school was canceled that day. Why? The snow that had melted the previous afternoon had frozen overnight literally freezing the School Buses into the lot. Try to move the bus and the treads would peel right off the tires. To add insult to injury, the buses were finally movable just when school would have gotten out.

LeslieAnne said (yesterday), “Now I’m dying of curiosity to go read!!” Remember that curiosity killed the cat! Are you a ‘cool cat’ or a (pardon the expression) ‘sex kitten’? Thank you for responding. I’m sorry about your hectic life lately. I’ve noticed that you haven’t been very active here. You don’t usually appear during the weekend so I‘ll save further comment for Monday. Maybe I’ll retrieve the music link and see what you think. Have a restful weekend, and avoid fork(lifts) in the road, if possible!

According to my calendar, tomorrow is Saturday. Don’t want to suggest that Calvin needs to be in school tomorrow, but Monday isstrongly recommended …

Puddleglum2 Haha… no fork lifts in the road!!! But maybe one in a parking lot??

it could close the school…

Worth a try.

only crabby people are superintendents