Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 23, 2022

What a gift!….

And knowing what Lewis and Clark did is useful?

And the school should care why exactly?

Calvin is one of the most relatable characters ever written.

Lewis and Clark were explorers. Calvin likes exploring. So he might find it interesting (if not useful) to learn a bit about them.

It’s uncanny how close to home this hits. And I even live in MT, close to the Lewis & Clark Trail.

I know who won the NHL scoring title in 1941. I think I know where my house keys are.

Heh. Isn’t everybody?

Lewis was an athlete and Clark is Superman.

Lois and Clark kissed, but he didn’t want to talk about that.

They got lost and made up a story about finding stuff

he could tell her that Lewis and Clark recorded some music with their Expedition, in the late ’60’s.

Weren’t Lewis and Clark a comedy duo in the 1950s?

Weren’t Lewis and Clark provisional members of the Thermonuclear League who failed their initiation test?

Oops, I thought she meant Lewis and Martin, I am tired this morning…..

Welcome to my life, kid. In my case, it’s sport.

Lewis (Stone) and Clark (Gable) were MGM contract players during Hollywood’s Golden Age.

Ah, yes, the TNLL. Coming to a multiplex near you.

Then he grew up and changed his name to Ken Jennings and the rest is history.

I don’t mean to boast, but I happen to know Jerry Lewis played a goofball in the movies with his partner Dean Martin, and of course Clark Kent was the secret identity of Superman. But I can’t remember Lewis and Clark teaming up, but that would have been a funny movie I would have watched.

I think the teacher is misreading something. Shouldn’t she be asking about Lois and Clark and why they are famous? That question I’m sure Calvin could answer.

thoroughly useless information matters – TUIM!!

Although it does not define us, our collective past shapes who we are today. I think this is why a few of us are so adamant about keeping some of our past hidden from students. When we examine what makes us uncomfortable, it motivates us to accept it, make the necessary repairs, and move on as a better society. But even as an individual, it’s hard work accepting where I went wrong but it’s the only way for me to legitimately get to making repairs.

I hardly see that as “useless” information. How can any (mostly) younger person go to the movies or open a streaming channel without being at lest somewhat educated on such things.

That’s what job interviewers imply with my MBA.

What kind of 1st grade class it this? Last time I checked first graders don’t learn this type of stuff

People remember what is important to them. I’m pretty sure I never use anything I may have once been taught about Lewis and Clark.

Personally, I prefer Lewis and Martin, but to each their own I suppose.

Most kids in college don’t know what Lewis and Clark did.

they were mentioned in history class, never mentioned strange end of Lewis though

“To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.” Socrates

They traveled through the country with a 16 year old Indian Girl. If they tried that today, they would both be on the sexual registry…..

My mother referred to it as “trivia trap mind”.

Lewis lane and Clark Kent? Please be more precise, should have been his response…

You don’t need to know this, and you don’t need to know that and you don’t need to know the other thing and before you know it, you don’t know ANYTHING.

Is he being punished, or does she just want to know?

All-American product of media bombardment.

A future Jeopardy contestant.

“Lewis and Clark left a trail of mercury across the western US.”

AHA! So this is the one I’ve been wrongly quoting all these years!

Feel yah Cal

What did Lewis & Clark &Co. say when they finally reached the Pacific Ocean? “Long time, no sea.” (a joke I read as a child).

But, Calvin, you can think of Lewis and Clark as superhero map makers!

I thought Lewis and Clark was 5th grade.10/10 (Yeah Calvin i also procrastinate on books and info too)

That’s what my wife says when she gets most of the answers correct on Jeopardy.

“About some useless information/Supposed to fire my imagination”

The struggles of having selective memory.

When I was that age, I could have cared less about Lewis and Clark. But, I could name every Star Trek episode ever done, identify which season it was by the incidental music and the backlighting and could quote the captain’s log entries verbatim.

I could tell you all kinds of factoids about video games, pro wrestling, Transformers, or comic books. Not so much about the other less interesting stuff.

It’s a wonder that I wasn’t officially diagnosed with autism/ADHD until recently (I’m 44).

so whose history would you follow? the woke crowd, the European scholars, or maybe some extreme american comentator. What I learned from my history classes is he who wins writes the history book. most of it is bs.

Captain Napalm’s secret origin is as a Vietnam vet afflicted with agent Orange.

That is me also.

I’ve often wondered how Calvin and Susie’s kid turned out.

me too

“Captain Napalm’s Thermonuclear League of Liberty” – I like it! It’s about time for a new superhero universe.

Sigh…Me too.

That thoroughly useless information of yours has kept people across the globe enthralled for decades, buddy.

Knowledge is good. Otherwise, someday you’ll be on the GoComics comment pages and say something stupid.

…said every gen-Xer ever…

If you wanna know how Lois & Clark is doing lately.. https://newprimewire.site/tv/superman-lois-68031

There seems to be a widespread misunderstanding about lower education. The point is that you are “learning how to learn”. Skiving off, fantasizing, cheating or guessing don’t work that well on the real, unfamiliar problems you will encounter in your life.

What you are supposed to be learning is how to organize information, extract relevant “chunks” from it, and express it in your own words. In your future, nobody will care about whether you still remember intrepid explorers; they care about whether you are educable.

I confess that I was a bit of a cut-up in class but I knew where to draw the line between fun and learning. I did learn how to learn, still learning today.

Thats me during school

She wants to see Calvin after class so that she can find out about the secret superhero origin of each member of captain napalm’s thermo-nuclear league of liberty.

A later strip has Wormwood reminding herself that she has five years till retirement when Calvin is causing trouble. Calvin makes it feel like an eternity.

“What did Lewis and Clark do?” “I’m no snitch! I ain’t telling!”

To be honest, Lewis and Clark is kind of advanced for a first grade curriculum. I don’t believe elementary schools teach about them until second or even third grade.

I used to watch Lois & Clark on the telly

I’m told that I’m a savant of pop culture.