Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 29, 2018

The pleasure of writing with an old fashioned fountain pen.

Aaaannnd Calvin is in trouble AGAIN!

I had an inkling that was going to happen.

Who in their right mind would give Calvin a pen like that?

Calvinism – Pen and sword are the same thing, and both are mighty!

it may be the 1980s back then, but do they still use fountain pens (assuming that’s what Calvin used on Susie) in the 2010s?

If it were the early 1950s, they might still have inkwells and dip pens, but it’s the 1980s. As a fountain pen user myself, there are six-year-olds that I might trust with one, but Calvin isn’t one of them.

But I’m sure that once he hatched his plot, he found something that would do instead.

I remember early ballpoint pens, guaranteed to leak if carried in pockets. My brother’s shirt pockets were always stained where he had carried a ballpoint without a “sissy” pocket protector.

Octopus: delicious denizen of the deep.

“Osmeroyd Overloader, notorious giant octopus, demon of the deep, has vowed to ensnare Juanita!”

“Her seahorse earrings lift their tails, Her thighs bedecked with water snails Await you!”

I don’t see why that behaviour wouldn’t warrant a bit of corporal punishment!

Oh my lord! That boy will have to grow new skin to get that off!

Alright, everyone – read this aloud

One hen

Two ducks

Three squawking geese

Four Limerick oysters

Five corpulent porpoises

Six pairs of Don Alverzo’s tweezers

Seven thousand Macedonians in full battle array

Eight brass monkeys from the ancient, sacred crypts of Egypt

Nine apathetic, sympathetic, diabetic, old men on roller skates with a marked propensity towards procrastination and sloth

Ten lyrical, spherical, diabolical denizens of the deep who haul stall around the corner of the quo of the quay of the quivery, all at the same time

(Background …According to Wikipedia this test was given “cold” (without an opportunity to warm up) to prospective radio announcers to demonstrate their speaking ability at Radio Central New York in the early 1940s.)

Judging by the wrathful look on Susie’s face I would run too…

what else is new!!!maybe he and hammie are related!!!

Run Calvin, Run Calvin, Run, Run, Run!

Don’t let the head have his fun, fun, fun!

Bang! Bang! Bang His hand across your bum!

Run Calvin, Run Calvin, Run, Run, Run!

A favourite form of mischief back in school was to use our fountain pens to “spray” ink across the backs of unsuspecting fellow students. The resulting splatter stains wouldn’t wash out easily. Of couse, everyone got their due share of the “treatment”, much to our parents’ collective dismay. :D

Calvin’s gonna hurt for that

Uh…Octopi don ’t do that. Squids do.

Hmm… Who could have done this?

I love how everyone assumes it was Calvin… but then again, we do know our Calvin.

What happened to the octopus’s eighth leg?

Beautiful drawing of an octopus… one of the most amazing creatures of the sea.

Once, on the old Ralph Edwards show..Kids Say the Darndest Things, Ralph asked the kids “If you could be any animal in the world, what would you want to be and why?” One little boy replied that he would want to be an octopus. Surprised, Mr. Edwards responded “Why, on earth, would you want to be an octopus?” The boy said “So I could reach out with all my testacles and take anything I wanted!”Needless to say, it almost shut the show down because no one could stop roaring!

My guess is that Calvin got a hold of an old time lever-fill fountain pen, and not a more “modern” version with the ink cartridge… that’s the only way I can see that much ink being squirted…

When I was in school, you were allowed the use of an ink pen until at least the third grade. Up til then, it was pencils.

First he learned about cephelopods and their ink jet abilities. Then poor Suzie gets the blot test from the little hellion that is Calvin.

That’s a real anachronism. Fountain pens haven’t been in classrooms for about 50 years as I recall.

She should consider herself lucky that a cloud of ink was ALL he aimed at her!

Hey, Calvin! You’re a kid now, you’re a squid now!

Isn’t his classroom pretend character Spaceman Spiff?