Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for April 16, 2020

You’re not a wimp; you’re just not a fighter.

And how did Moe know about Calvin not playing recess baseball? He and Susie aren’t acquainted with one another.

Moe seems like one of those baseball players who either hits a home run or strikes out, and nothing else.

Why not go to the office and tell on Moe? Considering what he’s done in the past, that should be enough to suspend him. If not, then there’s something Seriously wrong with school, virus or not. Funny how something that supposedly helps you prepare for the future actually puts you at risk of not making it to the future.

Sometimes the path of least resistance is the only way not to be pulverized.

Probably Calvin is taking the path of least resistance because of Moe who is just a kid but still a master of intimidation.

Say Moe, have YOU signed up for the school’s recess baseball league? If not, why are you haranguing Calvin?

Where’s a bully-sized vat of hydrochloric acid when you need it?

An anagram of “path of least resistance” is “Castrate phoniest self-hate.”

Calvin the instinct of survival is the strongest one.

I stand corrected……

Why Calvin? Because sometimes the “path of Least Resistance” is the smartest path!

Calvin, maybe he’s not calling you a wimp but a WIMP. Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) are hypothetical particles that— Okay, he doesn’t know squat about astrophysics, and ‘weakly interacting’ would just make him pound on you more. So, never mind that then.

I feel Calvin’s angst. I remember very well having to play baseball at recess and for phys ed. I wasn’t good at it. Couldn’t hit a ball if it stood still in front of me and couldn’t catch, either. It was torture for me. To this very day I hate sports of all kinds.

For the discount on your health insurance.

Seems to me the solution to Moe would be a taser. Calvin might get in trouble, but I bet Moe would never mess with Calvin again. Then again, it’s likely that Calvin deserved Moe, after all the things he’s done to Suzie (that is… before he married her several years later and both went on to team-write and illustrate wonderful Children’s Books… until she got pregnant and gave birth… and were severely distracted by a rampaging monster from the ages of 2 to 18).

Okay, I may haz gotted a little carried away there…

I used to fight the bullies, often lost, but they would leave me alone after….

I like how Leonard Hofstadter handled Penny’s bully boyfriend in the first season of “The Big Bang Theory”!

I was always the last one chosen when we were dividing into teams for PE in elementary school. I was terrible at softball, which is what we played then. Why would I volunteer to play? (Basketball, on the other hand, was my sport, and everyone wanted me for that game!)

Time for the serious questions, eh Cal?

In grade school, if you’re a boy and don’t like sports you’re considered a freak of nature and tormented mercilessly by those who feel their entire life’s calling is to prove they’re better than everybody else.

Moe kinda strikes me as the kind of guy who will turn out to be an angry closeted homosexual in the future

So hitting a ball and running is manly? Who knew?

Calvin, Calvin, Calvin. He’s gone. Don’t sign up.

lol sissy wimp

In days past, bullies or the tough guy crowd always thought they were too cool for sports. Don’t know if that still applies.