Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for April 09, 2023

No broken bones looks like pretty good luck.

Like they said in Gone With The Wind, “Tomorrow is another day…..”

As Roderick Stewart would say, “some guys have all the luck.”

Old definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a different result.

You can’t blame luck, or unluck, when you do it to yourself.

Has Calvin thought about kicking a football? Surely, she wouldn’t pull the ball back more than once.

The different outcomes for each suggest intelligence can be a factor.

So—has Calvin suffered enough?

Or will Mom and Dad inflict more pain (or maybe Dad will ride his d@mned bike over the same cliff)??

Cal , The last easy day was yesterday….

Good luck with that, Calvin.

Looking it up, I see John Calvin believed in predestination in the sense that some of us are chosen to be saved and some left aside to be condemned.

Ca spouts philosophy in a disaster. Cool.

Hobbes has those quick cat reflexes to keep him “lucky”!

Ah, the gambler’s mantra: “My luck will change tomorrow!”

Bad luck, bad judgement. What’s the difference?

A wise man makes his own luck.

“You can’t fight luck.” This is probably not the best time to do a Wikipedia search on William Archibald Spooner.

That hill reminds me of the various hills on an old golf course near the house I was born and raised in the first 11 years of my life. The 2 best ones I recall were the steepest and overlooked 2 synthetic ponds. One of them had a sharp demon drop onto a pond. Both made for great sled rides in the winter. There was a short section of woods that separated the course property from the neighborhood and various walking/bike paths we kids made over the years. Sadly, the golf course was sold and condos now sit where the ponds once were at. The woods are gone and no more hills. Amazing how 30 years or so of progress changes things. I miss those fun times…

fatalism…not existentialism — Calvin is in “bad faith”.

Good luck happens to those who are best prepared for it.

any ripened blackberries?

Some guys have all the luck

Some guys have all the pain

Some guys get all the breaks

Some guys do nothing but complain

Performed by: Rod Stewart, Written by: Jeff Fortgang

Pricker bushes are deadly…

Lucky that Hobbes decided not to participate….

I love that kid!

Luck: Stacking the odds in your favor before taking the shot.

With thinking like that, Calvin should stay away from slot machines at casinos.

Our sledding hill had a creek at the bottom. Generally frozen, but not always.

This portends and characterizes the national strategy

REO Speed Wagon. Responsible for more scrapes and torn jeans than you’d imagine.

I like to think, we were conducting field experiments in Physics. Sounds better that way.

If it weren’t for bad luck, Calvin, you would have no luck at all.

The weather appears to go from winter to summer between panel 1 and 2!

‘I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happening to them all.’ Ecclesiastes 9:11 KJV.

Brilliant.

I don’t suppose making bad choices has anything to do with it?

Calvin expresses an all too common attitude: “I’m not responsible for my actions!”

the moral of the story is you actually CAN take actions to improve your lot, like jumping out of the wagon, but if you waste energy fatalistically complaining about your “bad luck” then nothing will happen.

Like the lack of accountability in many facets of society 30 years later? And it appears to be getting worse.

Calvin is confusing luck with fate

Landing in the “Pricker Bushes” … one of hazards of prom attendance; also known as crude teen boys in a group…

LOL… Hobbes ‘bailed’ out of the Wagon just in time…

I will always love the time when Watterson explained “every time I wanted to get philosophical with Calvin and Hobbes, I put them in their wagon and sent them off a cliff.”

Love the daredevil Calvin. This six year old is a perfect entertainment package. Thanks Bill.

It’s one of the basic principles of the Icelandic sagas. Characters are often described as lucky or unlucky.

The definition of insanity.

Well, there’s luck and there’s dumb luck. And then there’s just dumb.

The definition of insanity…

It’s amazing that Calvin can’t play with a wagon like a normal six year old.

Calvin’s bad luck is to be a booger-brained doofus!