Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 27, 2024

It means a so-n-so did such-n-such to your great^73-grand-mom.

Overpriced if you ask me.

Just hope that he never figures out what you said.

Moe’s not smart enough to realize he’s been insulted.

He may take up bafflegab and get a job in Congress.

It will sink in eventually, and Moe will be around to effect a change.

It’s truly sad that no adults (parents, school officials, etc.) do anything about that bully.

Guess they’re afraid of his old man!!

Should have left him standing there trying to figure out what you just said…

Now, if Calvin were a hypnotist, he could have used that as a confusion induction and kept his money. In fact, he might have been able to talk mo into giving him money…

A brilliant (if maybe not quite wise) solution to an immediate problem.

One year, we had two girls who teamed up to beat up other kids in my 5th grade room. My interventions landed on deaf ears both on the bullies and their parents. The victim’s parents calls to the principal produced zero behavior changes. So I turned it into a class experience. I began to hold 30 minute lessons on titled, “How To Handle a Bully”. During the classes we thoroughly identified the problem. We brainstormed our feelings, role played various scenarios my students experienced at the hands of the bullies and we explored new behaviors my students could take when confronted. I could see a change come over my students now that they had some control. The bullies? I saw changes in those two as well. At first they were steaming mad. They complained to their parents. Their parents complained to me, then the principal. All my principal said to me was , “Good job”.

Cal will never get payback against Moe because he never grows up. In this comic, he never tells his parents or even thinks of it. He never tells the principal, or the teacher. In that time, there were no security guards in schools, no cameras, and no hall monitors. Like most of us, to quote, He takes the licking and keeps on ticking He just suffers and carries on.

Mo was recently sentenced for his participation in the Jan 6 insurrection.

My son went to a small, private high school known for its academic standards. The fact that he was 185 pounds and a LINEMAN on the football team should tell you how small the school was.

The were playing a game against the big high school in the area. This was the school where people sent their sons to live with grandparents or other relatives so they could go there to major in football. The starting lineup depended on who could make bail or wasn’t working night shift in the factory. At halftime, instead of a locker room talk, the coach let them out on the field to graze.

I took a photograph from behind their defense. You couldn’t even see our team.

Our team did manage to catch them off guard on one play. The snap count was, ’It’s alright, it’s OK, You’re going to work for us someday."

A joke I didn’t get for YEARS!

Did y’all notice, the “monkey” has his own moronically based font ?

Good one, Calvin!

Baffle ’em with vocabulary.

“ᴵ’ᵐ ᵍᵉᵗᵗᶦⁿ’ ᵃ ᵈᶦᶜᵗᶦᵒⁿᵃʳʸ, ᵀʷᶦⁿᵏʸ.”

“Good idea. It should elevate your position quite nicely” … {"At the dinner table…"}

If Watterson was still active, he’d put orange hair and a suit on this bully and have him run for class president.

More afraid of law suits. Sadly.

I guess if you can confuse them before they pound you into a bag of blood, it’s a small victory.

LOL… Calvin just called him a big Ape. Too funny.

Par for the course in a country that worships brute force and mocks intelligence.

Eloquently spoken.

That’s not typical bully behavior. As soon as the “what” is uttered, Calvin will smirk. As soon as Calvin smirks, he is going to get a fist in that smirk. He has made the bully uncomfortable. That is an infraction that requires a response.

This was before ultra-conservatives tried to change “diversity” into a dirty word.

Nope. You didn’t say the magic word…

…“Please.”

A little kindness goes a long, long way. So, don’t bully anyone…EVER. And yes, there is a special place down below for eternity for bullies. I highly doubt you’d want to go there.

Haven’t read this one since I was a child and I finally understand it now.

The big kid when I was this age wasn’t a bully but a gentle giant.

Never Mind that monosyllable Moe, Calvin. He will never make out the meaning of that jargon.

When my brother was in 7th grade he was drying his hands in a school bathroom and noticed that the paper towels were different. He said, These new paper towels aren’t very absorbent." A kid said, “How come you’re always using those big words?”

I was just thinking of how Calvin was most effective against Moe the time he brought Hobbes to school to ‘take care’ of Moe. Moe instead got freaked out by Calvin bringing his ‘teddy bear’ and ran off. Hobbes I am sure wanted a rematch for that ‘teddy bear’ remark.

Amateurs….Back in the fifties my buddy Ted and I sold “insurance”….

So no one WOULD bully you…

Our “office” was outside the neighborhood store, after school……