Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for May 25, 2022

Time for a repeat performance.

I hope this “trip” gives Calvin an idea for a story.

If only time travel didn’t include stopping your homework to get into a cardboard box.

I’m guessing the lesson here is, NEVER trust Calvin, no matter what time it is.

Not his best audience

Blame the 7:30 pm Calvin.

This reminds me of “who’s on first”!!!

“If you hadn’t screwed up my past, your future wouldn’t be like this.”

Never thought my life story could be boiled down into 13 words. Appropriate number, anyway.

Calvin-II is unusually wise. Must be Hobbes’ influence.

In my house, I have 4 children. The 3 I had with my wife, and ‘Not Me’, who gets blamed by the other 3 for everything.

I’ve suggested if my 3 kids expect the mess they make to be cleaned up by NotMe, then maybe NotMe buys them birthday and Christmas presents as well.

A rare moment of self reflection.

You read statements like this from time to time, this time it is especially true…, If Calvin would spend as much time doing the report as he does trying to avoid doing the report, it would be done by now.

That 8;30 Calvin ought to be strapped. Wouldn’t that be something to look forward to?

This story arc is like an inverse “grandfather paradox” of going backwards in time.

Calvin gets to see how infuriating it can be to try to reason with Calvin.

THIS – Is getting complicated !

8:30 Calvin’s last line is probably being repeated in many places…

Ah the blame game, so prevalent for today.

Certainly logical.

Did Ray Bradbury work on this storyline?

Instant Karma’s gonna get ya….

And the blame game continues.

“If you hadn’t screwed up my past, your future wouldn’t be like this.” Epic line. Thank you Bill Watterson for helping to make both my childhood/ adulthood so memorable.

If Calvin had handled all his shoulda – coulda – woulda’s when they came up, he wouldn’t be half as interesting. But, then, I’m no different. My house wouldn’t have half the clutter and partly finished stuff.

“If you hadn’t screwed up your past, your future wouldn’t be like this…”

My daughter would have bent the laws of the Universe to avoid a simple job or assignment. And her reaction would have been the same as 6:30 Calvin’s in panel #4.

As usual, time travel gives me a headache.

That’s what my exs say

“Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.” ~ Nobel laureate Niels Bohr

This gives a whole new meaning to the term “roundtable discussion”.

And I doubt ANY six year old boy thinks like Calvin!

Every child should go through this to learn a lesson.

Oddly, this all makes perfect sense.

I always got confused with the paradoxes in my Temporal Mechanics Course

Ah, the dreaded “time paradox.”

This reminds of a particular politician and White House clarifications

Who’s on first

OK. So, assume he did take the completed story back to 6:30 and held onto until 8:30. If he then gives it back to his 6:30 self, he won’t have the story to turn in to class. He could make a handwritten copy of the story … but that’s just doing the assignment twice . Hmmm … he’s going to need a much, much bigger space-time continuum. :)

This time-travel story arc reminds me of a Phoebe And Her Unicorn story arc from either 2019 or 2020. It began in March and continued into April. Marigold claimed she was going to use her magic to introduce Phoebe to a Phoebe from an alternative dimension. This seemed to happen. As March became April, Marigold revealed that it was her April Fool’s Day prank and she had really transported the Phoebe of the near future back to talk to Phoebe and pretend to be an alternative Phoebe as a joke. Phoebe was annoyed at first but then started to like the idea of becoming the Phoebe who had pranked her past self.

Like I said yesterday: If you don’t do the work in the present, it won’t be done in the future.

They need the 7:30 Calvin to get involved in this. He is the one who should have written it.

If Calvin really wanted to use the cardboard box to get out of writing, he should have made an Alternate Universe Traveler instead. Then he could go to a universe where he did write something.

Duh!

“If you hadn’t screwed up my past, your future wouldn’t be like this.” Words to live by!

The 8:30 Calvin knows the story has not been written. He has been awake and present all day. He knew the 6:30 Calvin left in his cardboard box and he knows what he did in the next 2 hours.

And thus, a fight begins between the two Calvins that obliterates the space-time continuum.

He just had to write a made up story, he could have written about himself going to the future to get the story from his future self.

Calvin experiences the very best time-travel paradoxes.

JUST KISS ALREADY!

A great life’s lesson in P4….

i heard from olivia swan that this is the plave for people to get emotinal damage. i sthat correct?

Heh

Question: How do you get verified by the mods?

The irony is that all this effort to write a story is a great story he’ll never write.

This isn’t so much a paradox as a simple issue with Calvin’s logic. Somewhere along the way, it might dawn on him that this little jump forward in time means he was actually MIA for the last two hours, so of course he wasn’t there to write the story.

Yeah, I used to hate it when that happened.

He must have written “Spaceballs”. Is this happening now? This is now, that was then.

When you’re so annoying even you drive yourself crazy.

Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with ones self and neither knows what ones self is talking about.

Not Calvin. Hobbes to the rescue.