Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for April 08, 2019

You have the right to go to bed without dessert. You have the right to stay in bed. If you get out of bed before wake up time it can be held against you.

Well she did say “Gotcha”, so that must count for something.

Let me put it this way. You have no rights!

that’s adorable

All right. You have the right to go to bed when I tell you to. You have the right to brush your teeth before you go to bed. You have the right to go to school when I tell you to. Yes there are more, but they will do for now.

How many people already read his rights?

Oh, what rights would THOSE be, Calvin?

You have the same rights with Mom as you have with Rosalyn.

Calvin she’ll read you your obituary before she reads you rights you don’t have!

Krako: I got rights! Scotty: You got nuthin’. You mind your place, mister, or… you’ll be wearin’ concrete galoshes. Krako: You mean cement overshoes? Scotty: Uh… aye. ( A Piece of the Action )

You have no rights. Go to bed.

You’re a kid and she’s your mom. You don’t have rights.

One of the happiest days in my son’s memory is when he found out he could run faster than me his Mom.

Would reading you the riot act work?

Here’s your rights: You’re going right to bed!

As mom is not a law enforcement officer, and as you, Calvin, are not being charged with a crime (as yet), you are not entitled to a Miranda warning – unless mom’s name is Miranda, in which case, you were suitably warned. Case dismissed.

The right she’s going to deliver is going to hurt.

to act like abrat!!!

You really don’t want them to read you your rights, because you’ll find out how few of them you actually have and how much you get away with at their whim.

There was a time when we lived in an apartment that had a very big “backyard” area adjacent to a busy road. There was a fence separating the play area from the road. We told our son not to climb the fence.

So one day we saw him on the other side. He was back by the time we got out. We told him again not to climb the fence. He told us, “I didn’t climb it; I went under it.”

Remarkably, he became an engineer instead of a lawyer.

" Rights?!!! I’ll kick your little butt RIGHT back up the stairs""!!!!!

A fine legal point that I am sure you will regret bringing up there Perry Mason.

“My name isn’t Miranda!”

Mortgage rights. Those that pay the mortgage have all the rights

Parenthood is not a democracy.

Calvin, you have the right to live…maybe.

Mom had better get used to this. It reminds me of a future story arc which inspired the title of the collection called “Scientific Progress Goes Boink”. Calvin turn his Transmogrifier/ Time Machine into a Duplicator and creates a clone of himself who creates some other clones. Mom keeps sending “Calvin” to his room only to find another “Calvin”. That was just an early part of a complex story arc.

We used to read stories to our kids before they went to bed. Now we read them their rights!

Love Calvin’s facial expressions in this one!

Calvin’s going to learn about “Benign (?) dictatorships”.

HELLION is too light a word for the likes of Calvin.

Funny, I had just read that if a cop doesn’t read you your rights, it doesn’t invalidate the arrest.

You have the right to remain silent…

Calvin takes the legal recourse!

LOL – I have a kid like that….. NOW (he’s 35, already.)

Yeah, right. You’re just about to find out how wrong you are, Cal!

You don’t have any.

When somebody deliberately makes a grammatical error to bug me, I Mirandize them with the following:You have the right and moral obligation to remain silent. If you give up the right to remain silent, anything you say will be edited for grammar and used for other charges. You have the right to an attorney. If you so desire and cannot afford an attorney, it’s probably because your grammar keeps you in low paying jobs.