Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 17, 2024

Hobbes is a good teacher… and businessman.

With Hobbes thoughts, the price is right!

Looks like the dailies are later comics and the Sundays are going to be earlier comics that were rerun in the nineties (so right now it’s a rerun of a rerun, if that makes sense).

You can tell because this and last week’s Sunday use the format that Bill used before the nineties when he was allowed to make his own Sunday format.

Always bet on the tiger to win.

One of the all-time classics. When that was first published, I pulled it on a girlfriend who uncautiously offered me a penny for my thoughts. I got 57¢ out of her, but had to buy the both of us breakfast. She was a good one…

Well played Hobbes.

Miss Wormwood probably wonders why Calvin is always bruised on Monday mornings.

Only Susie and this feline can match Calvin’s wit. Love you Bill.

First 2 panels I can strongly relate too…then and now.

Gives new meaning to “Tiger, tiger burning bright”………

(Calvin got burned)……

Oops! Nickel is spelled nickel not nickle!

Hobbes is just a stuffed tiger that’s only alive in Calvin’s imagination. Wouldn’t that mean that Hobbes’ thoughts are really Calvin’s thoughts?

Great laugh at an old antic. Good way to start the day, except it won’t be light for another 2+ hours. Will just have to remember this one when I wake up.

Calvin was getting his 1/4 of Hobbes $1 thought.

4th/5th panel, I like Hobbes sticking his tongue out.

A classic. Always pull out this quote to get someone upset.

Who knew the phrase is 450 years old? https://www.phrases(dot)>

Who knew the phrase is 450 years old? https://www.phrases(dot)org(dot)uk/meanings/ (Also, who knew that GC’s no links policy also included foreign web links?)

Ugh, you dumb kid. You’ve fell for the oldest scam in the book!

Time to break out the bactine and bandaids.

It should have been worth the money!

I was once a member of a political party who, because it would embarrass me, I will not divulge. I foresaw that the party was heading down a destructive path and wrote to them about it. All I got in response were letters asking me for donations, which today might be used to pay a certain candidate’s (who will also remain unknown) legal bills.

I sent them a check for $50 and did not sign it. I added a note, telling them that if they wanted my signature on the check, they would have to answer my questions. They sent the check back to me informing me that I didn’t sign it.

I figured that if I could not pay this party to listen to my opinion, that they would not listen to me as an ordinary citizen.

In an obscenity-laced letter (including bad words written on the check) I asked that I be removed from their mailing list. I predicted that their incumbent president would lose re-election to the White House. He did. Clinton won.

They also sent back my X-rated check with the words, “For your records.”

So even $50 is not enough for some people to listen to your thoughts.

Amen

I promoted a 3 day weekend the entire time I was teaching – one day to recover, one day to get something done, and one day to prep for the next week. … never got it tho. :-/

Hobbes’s real point is that wisdom is not without its price.

Gotta love Hobbes….

A fool & his money are soon partying!

At least Calvin did not buy the full (fool) seminar.

I appreciate that Sunday never finds Calvin in church. A departure from many strips from that era and before that regularly set the Sunday strip in a house of worship.

So funny! Calvin is definitely a fool.

Wow! This is exactly like the story of Lucius Tarquinius Superbus and the Sibylla Cumana!

What is it with today? Does St. Patrick’s Day mean dumb comic strips?

The value of all mysterious ideas are high. This is better known to Hobbes than anyone else. That feline is a charmer.

Calvin can’t spell the name of a certain metal that, along with iron and cobalt, responds to magnetism.

Classic C&H – the faces, the discussion in general, the final joke and scene.

The more Calvin pays, the higher dividends they get on both sides … In one way or another…