Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 28, 2019

I don’t think it’s all Calvin’s fault that he doesn’t do well in school.

I’m not from Arizona, but I wonder what my relatives therefrom think of this father/son conversation.

Maybe the sun grabs an overnight flight to New Jersey.

Arizona is HOT!!! I’ll probably go there to see the Grand canyon but that’s it.

Heart to heart talks with Dad at Calvin’s age is usually BS. It’s the only time in a Dad’s life he can get away with it.

LOL..make me wonder how many men actually feel qualified as parents?

I love that Mom is so used to this, she’s knows something happened just by what Calvin says.

Mom is smart enough to know about Dad’s “smarts”.

The dangers of uncritical empiricism.

My son learned very early to be very sceptical about anything I told him. He now applies this healthy attitude to everything.

Mum is on to it!

That was the joy of being a child and being told whoppers like that. You knew they weren’t true but it was just such fun to go with surreal theories. That’s what dads and granddads are for while mothers have to be sensible

Calvin should know by now not to believe his answers.

I can’t speak for all fathers but that is why we had them.

Mom should give Dad a good smack upside the head just like Reba would.

This was the strip I remembered when I said yesterday that a more positive strip based on Watterson’s memories of his father was due to be reprinted soon. Watterson states in “The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book” that his Dad used to tell him what Calvin’s Dad says here. He comments about his Dad several times in the book stating that Calvin’s Dad is based largely on his own Dad although some of Dad’s characteristics such as his love of cycling come from Bill Watterson himself.

the anti-C&H review of this strip…https://www.fatherly.com/love-money/relationships/why-i-dont-bullshit-my-kid/

Dad really DOES know a whole lot. Maybe he should publish it in a book sometime.

I want to go see the quarter size sun turn off!

“You’re your son’s father!” — My X told me that once.

Many fathers hope that their child will grow up to be president. Calvin is well on his way.

So, for everyone in California, it sets in the East? And in Utah, it sets in the South?

I never knew that.

Actually, the Sun appears far smaller than even a quarter. If you hold a dime at arm’s length, it appears more than three times the diameter of the Sun.

Lying to a child, is that character building?

I think the sun actually does lay on the ground in Phoenix. You get sprayed with water coming and going to a grocery store. They need the spray the whole area not just the stores.

This is one of my most favorite strips. “ you can’t believe everything you read… “ LOL!!!

Dad was onto Fake News 15 years before most.

Yep -that’s how I raised my boys. We had fun, and they learned to recognize bovine waste material at an early age.

I have to admit my guilt to this small crime too. What good is it having kids or younger brothers and sisters, if you can’t mess with them?

Knowledge is overrated.

But you wouldn’t have to watch for tornadoes every time there was a cloud in the sky!

Everybody knows, the Sun is put into a chariot and everyday Helios drives that chariot across the sky. That is how the Sun rises and sets. Feel better, now that you know the truth? I do.

When I was a kid I asked my father what he was doing during the II WW . He answered – with a large smile – that he was a general .

With my great surprise I discovered that all my friends’ fathers were so high-ranking

I tell my boys stories of that nature all the time. Calvin’s dad was my inspiration for that. It’s harmless fun because I always make sure they know when I’m joking, usually by getting to the end of a fanciful story and asking them, “Do you really believe that?” My favorite is when I tell them I got them from the clearance bin by the registers at Babies R Us and that they were clearly marked “As is, no returns.”

I had many conversations like this with my grandchildren. They all graduated with honors, so they must have been driven to do their own research.

Calvin’s dad could go into politics

I lived in Las Vegas for 8 years, commuted by bicycle every day and mountain biked every opportunity I got. I drank plenty of water, enough so that my sweat was mostly water. The heat can be handled as long as you avoid dehydration. I got dehydrated once, it was painful and it took 10-12 hours to recover.

It’s times like these we realize Calvin is a lot like his daddy.

I used to take my two young boys camping at Caddo Lake in Louisiana and told them not to wander off,especially at night. Told them to look up at the tops of the big pine trees and notice the sappy looking stuff that ran down the trunks. I said that wasn’t sap but the sticky trails like snails left by “Alien Swamp Monsters” that hid in the tops of the pines and would come out at night hunting for wandering children to snatch back up the trees. They always said “Aw Dad, your kidding there aren’t any such Monsters.” But I never had any trouble with them Wandering Off. And in later years we all laughed about it and my Boys admitted they really were never too sure about it being true or false but they weren’t gonna go off.(Keep in mind that Swamps are very Dangerous,no place for Children to be alone.) I lived upper New York when young and my Dad always took us camping in Canada and told us stories about “The Purple People Eaters” that would eat children,I guess for similar reasons. You-all Be Safe and Have a Great Day !

This is why we have a bunch of flat earthers now, thanks Calvin’s dad!

Bad dad!

One time I spent all night wondering what happened after the sun set. Eventually it dawned on me.

Dad is being a little s***. Now we can see where Calvin gets his genes …

This might explain Calvin’s bad grades.

Smart dad, I don’t see Hobbes, no witnesses.

True down south, and the haboobs make WI look great. A young thing told me they left Arizona for WI due to the heat, and I hope she enjoyed this last winter. Ha!

Dadsplaining is unassailable.

Speaking from bitter personal experience, parents might think it’s funny to make up outrageous stories like this to tell their kids, but the fact is, kids believe that stuff. They don’t “instinctively” know that the things their trusted adults are telling them are outrageous/meant to be funny, so kids believe. Why wouldn’t they? It’s the parents’ job to teach their kids how the world works. By telling these “harmless,” “funny” stories, parents are actually doing their children a grave disservice—and teaching their kids that the people they trust lie to them.

And then the poor kid goes to school and proudly passes on this “funny” story as fact. Or grows up to vote for Trump.

One of my top 10 C&H strips.

Only during summer. It’s snows up in the canyon.

If you find the sun it’s okay to pick it up. Another one will come along in the morning!

See, the sun lands in a specially insulated rail car that is already moving toward the east coast at maximum speed, where it stops with the car over a giant hydraulic piston that pushes it back into the sky at just the right moment; then it races west as fast as possible in order to be there in time to catch the sun. Once in the spring and again in late fall, they have to do maintenance on the railroad tracks and that’s what causes daylight savings time to come and go.

Dad is ruining that kids mind.

If Bull sh*t were music ,his dad would be a brass band!!

Dad’s going to be really embarrassed when his son explains how the sun works to his teacher in school….

Is his dad’s theory the root of flatearthers?

Dad is a flat earther.

I once told my young daughter that teabags grow on a teabag bush. Does that make me a bad Dad?

Ah, Calvin’s father, the used-to-be Hermes, except when the REAL Hermes stepped in, reply on this comment if you read Greek mythology. I read the entire heroes of olympians series and the Percy Jackson one too.

bruh plz don’t burn