Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for February 07, 2021

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    BE THIS GUY  almost 4 years ago

    I see the aliens got nothing useful after their long trip to Earth.

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    Sugar Bombs 95  almost 4 years ago

    Not gonna lie, this kind of reminds me of a Shel Silverstein poem.

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    Templo S.U.D.  almost 4 years ago

    The teacher won’t buy that excuse, lad. Better go have chat with the principal, your mother, and your dad.

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    JudasPeckerwood  almost 4 years ago

    So much for the search for intelligent life here — on to the next star system!

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    codycab  almost 4 years ago

    Looks like Calvin has a “Twilight zone” episode in mind.

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    rshive  almost 4 years ago

    So now the aliens can’t add either?

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    Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    All that trip across the universe and they find a bad six year scholar. I bet the aliens will never invade us.

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    SHIVA  almost 4 years ago

    Off to the Principals office, and another call to Dad!!

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    Bilan  almost 4 years ago

    That may be a math class, but he’s history.

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    rekam Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    Poor Miss Wormwood.

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    meg_grif  almost 4 years ago

    That story doesn’t add up.

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    TON618  almost 4 years ago

    It actually came from me, the largest black hole! (Just read my profile name, that is the name of the black hole)

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    jmworacle  almost 4 years ago

    Calvin, you usual seat will be waiting for you.

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    cracker65  almost 4 years ago

    Therapy Calvin

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    momofalex7  almost 4 years ago

    Maybe Calvin doesn’t get math, but he is a wonderful writer. He should get some credit for that.

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    rentier  almost 4 years ago

    Calvin an angel? That makes me laugh!!

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    cjasc5250  almost 4 years ago

    Classic dyscalculia.

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    BigDaveGlass  almost 4 years ago

    Loving the poem, if not the sentiment…

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    posse1 Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    Thanks for the fun re-read this morning!

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    morningglory73 Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    Clever poem.

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    Red33410  almost 4 years ago

    “Fiendish suction cup” is a plunger! laughter

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    Mr_Cool  almost 4 years ago

    Maybe it’s a good thing that they mechanic’ly removed all the math, equations and numbers he ever learned. Lol

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    jagedlo  almost 4 years ago

    A rather creative way of saying “I don’t know”…

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    JoJoline  almost 4 years ago

    As Chief Orxc I have analyzed

    All those words you said.

    The remedy is very clear -

    The office of The Head.

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    vaughnrl2003 Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    Okay, I’d give him an A in English class and an F in math class. Together it’s a C and that’s good enough for me.

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    ThePersonOnGoComics  almost 4 years ago

    He can’t solve 4 + 5 ._.

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    A Hip loving Canadian...  almost 4 years ago

    Sounds reasonable …

    (to the Q-a-non-sense folks.)

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    Kilrwat Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    I love how the “knowledge” that got sucked out of Calvin was wrong!

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    KEA  almost 4 years ago

    If only this were creative writing class

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    gantech  almost 4 years ago

    I wish I had thought of that with my math teacher!

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    admiree2  almost 4 years ago

    Calvin went on to become one of the great published science fiction writers. Sadly boys and girls, our Calvin died alone and destitute.

    For years his agent and publisher showed him the numbers from his sales that included regional costs, returns, depreciation, marketing, usury taxes, costs of off shore accounts, advances, interest and other non-GAAP amounts. They explained that the bottom line showed how he was in debt to them.

    Boys and girls, if only Calvin could have been able to do arithmetic…what more might he have done with his life?

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    tripwire45  almost 4 years ago

    Calvin will grow up to be a terrific fiction writer.

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    alice  almost 4 years ago

    Beats, “the dog ate my homework .”

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    SweetSinger  almost 4 years ago

    Great poets are often unappreciated by their math teachers…

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    WCraft Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    Next solar system, Captain: There is no intelligent life here.

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    jrankin1959  almost 4 years ago

    Two weeks later, astronomers report the explosion of a planet in the Beta Corralis system, suggesting it looked like some energy testing gone horribly wrong… possibly because of bad data.

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    Pat44  almost 4 years ago

    This is plausible. It explains a lot about what I can’t remember.

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    ForrestOverin  almost 4 years ago

    “Since i don’t have a dog that I can blame for eating me homework… I know! Honest, Miss Wormwood, aliens sucked all the learning out of my brain! What?!? You find that difficult to believe?!?”

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    ChessPirate  almost 4 years ago

    “Abowr’d”? ㋡

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    royq27  almost 4 years ago

    Wish I had known that poem when I was in school, I certainly did not know the math…

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    cmo2495 Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    If this were a poetry unit, I’d give Calvin an A+.

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    Otis Rufus Driftwood  almost 4 years ago

    A vivid imagination can be both impressive and troublesome. The pandemic is revealing as a problem for one of my nephews as we’ve observed him more.

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    Brent Rosenthal Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    He gets an A+ in poetry

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    DanWolfie  almost 4 years ago

    Calvin may not be good at math, but he sure is good at poetry! It’s like he wrote it in advance before going to school that day!

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    mourdac Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    I’ll keep this excuse in my back pocket for not doing chores around the house. Aliens sucked out all my motivation.

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    locake  almost 4 years ago

    I don’t usually like poetry, but this is great. Love it!

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    wschurchill  almost 4 years ago

    Didn’t work for me, Calvin. ☹️

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    yangeldf  almost 4 years ago

    heh, note that the math on the computer monitor is HILARIOUSLY wrong, so he couldn’t do the math even before the aliens stole his knowledge

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    S.Curtis  almost 4 years ago

    In high school English (50 yrs ago) when we had to write poems, how happy I would have been to write this one, instead of one with dragons and phlogiston.

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    BiggerNate91  almost 4 years ago

    Simply telling Miss Wormwood about the “escapade” isn’t enough; no, he has to recite it in poem form.

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    delennwen  almost 4 years ago

    I adore Calvin’s poetry. It’s always hilarious and brilliant, and the artwork with this one makes it extra amazing. Thank you, Mr. Watterson!!

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    txmystic  almost 4 years ago

    But if you insist I answer

    Lest my grades should take a dive,

    I’ll just have to tell you plainly

    That the answer’s forty-five…

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    felipenollaFFA  almost 4 years ago

    And that’s the reason teacher Wormwood has not

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    felipenollaFFA  almost 4 years ago

    retired, she loves science fiction stories..

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    MITZI  almost 4 years ago

    Bill Watterson! That is a terrific poem . . . it rhymes, it scans, it sparks joy!

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    kab2rb  almost 4 years ago

    What an imagination, if Calvin applied himself he be smarty kid.

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    SansMercy  almost 4 years ago

    Calvin is going to grow up to be a world-class writer one day.

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    HenryStryker  almost 4 years ago

    give him an A for poetry and creativity

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    Ka`ōnōhi`ula`okahōkūmiomio`ehiku Premium Member almost 4 years ago

    If one must retort, then retort in rhyme.

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    Ermine Notyours  almost 4 years ago

    Calvin is no angel.

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    Spiffy  almost 4 years ago

    Calvin is lucky. Most aliens are interested in your other end.

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    Stephen Gilberg  almost 4 years ago

    I ripped off this poem in elementary school.

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    AndrewSihler  almost 4 years ago

    This is the only example known to me in English Literature of many rhyming with antennae

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    WilliamDoerfler  almost 4 years ago

    Never do.

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    BobtheBandGuy  almost 4 years ago

    Instead of Math, how ’bout an EnglishClass for our young friend?Perhaps some rhyming will aid timing,Sums, and dividend.

    It seems a shame to waste his effortIn poetic verse.I have a feeling that Miss Wormwood’sResponse will be terse!

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    DCBakerEsq  almost 4 years ago

    Similar thing happened to me in law school. But it took three years.

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    einarbt  almost 4 years ago

    Well he has a future as an English teacher or write of SciFi.

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    DamionHurst  over 3 years ago

    I didn’t even realize it was rhyming until the last panel

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    mariodealpine  over 3 years ago

    This is breathtakingly good. (:-)

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    baraktorvan  over 3 years ago

    All the English majors who were terrible with Math will see themselves here.

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