Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 31, 2010

2 against 1, dad!

Finally Calvin agrees with mum ;)

Or, was that Mom agreeing with Calvin??

Sounds good to me.

Has this been around here yet?

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btmosley I like that.

I’m on dads side!

Thanks BTMosley.

You all know Dad’s gonna win. It’s funnier that way.

I guessed if it rained for five days in a row, Calvins’ idea would be a god send……….

Mom is agreeing with Calvin! Now, I’ve seen everything!

Dad’s sadism continues.

Maybe mom made a pact with Calvin to prevent ending up in a tent…

No seatbelt Calvin!

Seems weird that Calvin’s dad only thinks of camping when vacation comes up. Why can’t they just vacation in another city?

I’m with Calvin and mom all the way! Ugh, cold ground, wet tent, mosquitoes…

Chime, when this comic was being written there weren’t even any seat belts in the back seats except in Volvo.

It’s no fun loving camping but being in a family that hates it. I know, so I feel great sympathy for Dad. Having said that, he’s fighting a losing battle.

btmosely, thanks!

hildigunnur, they absolutely did have backseat seat belts at the time this was written. It began in 1985, and I had children by then - they were buckled up in the backseat - not a Volvo. Heck, when I was a kid in the late 60s, we rode around in a VW van, and we had seat belts.

@margueritem 3 against 1, dad! Hobbes is somewhere there too :)

Aww, dear. Think of the money we’ll save on your and Calvin’s medical bills. Remember last year?

Driver’s choice, and Dad is the driver. I liked camping a lot more when I was younger. Now, I kinda agree with my sister, who says camping is a 2- star hotel instead of 4-star. Calvin makes a logically developed argument here, and Dad is showing the normal Calvin reaction. It would be interesting to hear Hobbes’ take on all of this!

Why does building your character always involve doing something you really don’t want to do?

Hmmm…whenever we tried that, Dad’s response was”All in favor of the proposed action” We would raise out hands. He would then look at us “That is two votes for…I vote against and MY vote counts as THREE…..

Sounds like a fine plan that Calvin has…so much so, I’M going to do just that this weekend…

I’d agree with Calvin, but unfortunately for him, sitting in an air-conditioned room watching TV all day is not Dad’s idea of a vacation.

Good Morning, Marg, Mike, & ♠Lonewolf♠

If Calvin was your kid, would you make him wear a seatbelt?

Mortgage rule: He who pays the mortgage rules.

Good Morning:

My idea of roughing it is staying in a hotel that doesn’t have a restaurant.

My idea of roughing it is sleeping without an electric blanket

I like nature, flowers, animals, exclusiv biting ones, the sun, woods and swimming!

@hildigunnur and cdward -

you’re sort of both right - rear seat lap belts became mandatory in the US in the late sixties.

rear seat shoulder belts didn’t make it to the non-Volvo crowd until sometime later - my 1981 Subaru didn’t have shoulder belts in the rear.

a friend who volunteered as an EMT said he never unbuckled a dead body

I can’t really comment here… I live in the woods, with no ac, no cable, and you need 4wd to get up my driveway…

I loved camping out in tents. I used to camp all winter in the Florida Keys. Then as I got older, I started camping in tents less and less, eventually buying a motor home and spending the winter’s camping in southern Texas. Now that I have sold the RV, I haven’t been camping since. Tent camping has lost all of it’s appeal. Oh Well!

For me I agree with Calvin, I drive by a lake every day and see where some have tents to RV parked. Me I want A/C and no bugs. This hotel stay would be a better vacation to mom. It’s dad who will have more fun camping where as mom has to do all the work. It’s nice to see mom finally in agreement with Calvin’s grand idea. Bad on dad. Me if nothing appeals to me on tv now we have a separate room in a different house I go to small room either to read or comics. Now I fit Jr. college in my class starts later Sept. done on-line.

This is off subject I found out neighbors here like me and it’s coming on YEA Dancing with the Stars impressive line up. I will fit on-line class in just may have to skip comments as I will be working and have started reading my book on Psychology. I wonder who watches this show, I know more watches football, which I have to endure or skip reading comment’s on for a change be nice talking about something different. Don’t want to offend anyone.

Where I work at others talk about sports not what I watch so I don’t comment or pay attention.

2 against 2: I’m sure Hobbes would prefer the great outdoors…

They’re heading for a place where the mosquitos are hungry and the fish ain’t.

Yes. Do stay in a nice motel or hotel. Stay in one with room service. Hopefully there will be no bed bugs, however.

When young you love camping,middle age you endure camping, senior age you do hotels or cruses.

margueritem said, about 10 states ago

2 against 1, dad!

(1) However, Dad is at the wheel…

(2) margueritem, I hope you’ve fully recovered from your accident! I’m always glad to see you back atop the comments, even if I usually forget to mention it.

As a child (8years old) I wanted a tree house so bad. I asked my Dad If we could build one. He said “son we have no trees.” So I thought ,what about a club house ,again he said “son we have no clubs” so I saved up my allowance and after the whole summer had almost gone by, I had enough to buy myself a tent. I “camped” In that tent every weekend till it got to cold. The next spring came around ,but by the time it got warm enough to “camp” I had gotten to big for the tent and couldn’t sleep in it. ……AAHHH GOOD TIMES

RV camping is best. AC, TV, Micro, and soft beds. Don’t like your spot, start the motor and move.

Why folks buy Airstreams

Calvin and Mom are as one.

If nothing else camping in a tent gives you some good stories. My memories and my family’s always involved rain. Remember when we went to Scout camp and it rained and we had mud up to our knees all week and you got your foot stuck in the mud. You finally got your foot out but found the mud tore off your shoe and you screamed. Your uncle pulled you out, threw you over his shoulder and I dug your shoe out. We all laughed and laughed.

My parents had a little wooden house and a garden . In summer we lived outside in the garden, sometimes it was cold and windy and rainy and there were many moscitos which bite! In spite of this we loved it to stay outside!

RichardSRussell, nice to meet another Prairie Home Companion fan. I found the broadcast archives and am having a ball catching up with Garrison’s “News from Lake Wobegone”. Hilarious stuff–just like where I was raised.

LeslieAnne, I suppose your forklift doesn’t have 4WD, but you probably leave it at work, anyway. I probably could get up your driveway, although I only have 2ld (2 leg drive). How long is the driveway? My brother has a sloped driveway, but it’s only about 25-30 feet or so. Do you have a garage for your 4WD vehicle? I doubt that Calvin would stop at your cabin for his vacation, but he does like to go over the river and through the woods with Hobbes on occasion.

Puddleglum2, no no 4wd forklift… I have had to use 2ld sometimes…. My driveway is half a mile long and at the end is pretty much straight up… haha and no… we never did the garage thing… we figure we beat up the vehicles to get them home why try to protect them while they sit there??

woooow…. mum just agreed with Calvin

Calvin, the six year old lawyer (in mufti) has managed to get the prosecutor in the family court (mom) to agree with him. Does this kid have future in politics or what?

Dads always lose to Moms one to one. As said above, “If Mom ain’t happy, ain’t NOBODY happy.”

The ONLY time that Calvin’s mom agrees with him.

enkydu said: @margueritem 3 against 1, dad! Hobbes is somewhere there too :)

No, I’m sure it would be 2 to 2 on this one! After all, Hobbes is a ferocious tiger with big claws and “mandibles of death” so what better place to find something new, exciting and tasty than in the woods??? Besides, don’t forget: he also likes his food “surprised and running!” ;-)

Holidays living off what you fish, camping out in squalor, in primitive conditions? Some people DO like that, but I agree with Calvin and the poor harrassed mom who ends up doing most of the chores anyway. A vacation must be letting go, letting others serve you (they’ll have their vacations too, hopefully) and just relax … A hotel, even a motel in a nice place, with restaurants, cafeterias, some fast-food joints, and if possible a good hammock … :)

Oh no – let’s do last year over again and see if it can possibly get any worse.

LeslieAnne, Based on your description, there’s little danger that your cabin will ever get flooded, unless it’s from significant melting snow coming down the mountain. BTW, what did you think of the non sequitur definition I posted yesterday (Monday)?

yeah - I figured the time wrong, suppose that just shows how old I am, and that I felt like Calvin & Hobbes had been around forever :þ

When did it become mandatory to wear those lap belts?

@GretchensMom Hobbes didn’t looks very excited on Monday :) but yeah, “surprised and running!” :D :D :D

Puddleglum2… Very true… We joke that we don’t need flood insurance because if we get flooded the insurance company will be bankrupt due to the massive flooding it would take!!! And nicely done!

Yeah, I was looking at that seatbelt situation. Mom and dad are safely strapped in, but Calvin could become a flying projectile. Coincidence?? I think not.

Calvin’s Mom FTW!

Calvins mom: “finally the kid is making some sense”