Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 15, 2019

Calvin has to work on his business model.

I’m not going to pay you a dollar to not drink that stuff myself, Calvin, but rather I’d pay you ten dollars to see YOU drink it all.

Already has the look of a true businessman.

where’s Susie ? heh heh

Calvin could sell insurance with that smile.

Organic?

Lemonade?….where’s my sample of Amoebic dysentery?

That should keep the County Health Inspector away, but opens himself up for a RICO indictment for extortion.

Maybe if he ran it through the blender first, he would fool them.

Hey, if people won’t pay you to hang out with them, make them pay to get you to leave.

Take it to “Shark Tank”, package it right profits right around the corner. Who remembers Asparagus Water Whole Foods was selling a few years ago?

And discount it for those who have 5 or more enemies they want to get rid of slowly.

Sounds like some the green sludge they try to pass off as “healthy” nowadays.

Okay, I’m not drinking. Now give me my dollar, kid!

lmao. so this is the “source of idea” for that game “girl” bath water..

The fallacy here is thinking anyone in the neighborhood would even walk close enough to Calvin’s house to see the sign.

calvin, take the first drink!!!

these days, Calvin would be seeking to sell it on the internet, knowing that there would be somebody out there stupid enough to believe him and buy it!

“Its the product that THEY don’t want you to be able to buy!” (where “THEY” is the opposing demographic of your target sales audience) You’ll sell gallons of the stuff if you run with that strategy.

Non-GMO, and no artificial coloring or additives.

Sad part is, he might actually get some takers.

“People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals, and you know it!” ~ Men in Black

Give it a fancy foreign sounding name and charge a premium – idiots will line up to buy.

Anything for a buck?

I wouldn’t pay more than fifty cents not to drink it.

So how do you plan on stopping the people that will just walk by, Calvin?

Reminds me of an old SNL fake commercial from the ‘70s for a product called ’Swill’, promoted as mineral water, but containing all sorts of garbage.

It’s also reminiscent of a soft drink called ‘Slurm’ from Futurama, which it turned out was made from the secretion of an alien slug.

This week’s reprints remind me of a Sunday strip near the end of “The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book”. This represents a typical summer’s day as based strongly on Bill Watterson’s childhood memories. One panel has Calvin and Hobbes playing in an inflatable pool as on Monday, another has them digging a hole as Calvin was doing yesterday and another has them trying to sell a drink similar to the one Calvin created today. The one in the Sunday strip is advertised as “Suicide Drink” and Calvin is only charging 75 cents rather than a dollar.

Calvin would fit right in with the current administration.

To quote his parents, “There’s something seriously wrong with that kid.”

Sounds like the Mineral Miracle Solution that’s all the fad now – the stuff that becomes bleach when you drink it. Unlike the soap pods, Adults are promoting this nasty stuff!

An interesting business model.

Calvin must have delusions of grandeur if he thinks he could force-feed most people.

There is an eating disorder called “Pica” (pyka) in which people eat dirt. Often, that is because they are deficient in some mineral contained in dirt. Turns out, eating dirt is not that bad a thing. Even the billions of organisms in a teaspoon of dirt can be good for you. I’m not trying to be funny here.

Now that is the mind set we don’t want to have flourish like in the 19th century.

I’ve seen a “Pay me to stop playing” sign, but that’s different somehow.