Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 13, 2024

Good to see Calvin has a realistic take on life.

So Calvin does have a conscience. It just doesn’t work well.

It is going to backfire on Calvin

Which means he’ll be outside all day, just to be realistic.

A cracking new day, in a few hours!!!!

A procrastinator’s work is never done.

Most likely Mom (and Dad, if he’s still home) have a far different view of “here and now”.

Just what I expected, Calvin’s counting on tomorrow’s snow!

Hobbes is right, it’s better to get whatever you have to do over with, and enjoy the rest of the day without it hanging over you. Only the few times I’ve done this I still kept thinking I had to do it, reminded myself I’d already done it and wished I could just forget about it!

He’s determined to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory……..

I think the operable phrase is: ‘Famous last words’ ! ! ! !

Let the good times roll!

There you go, glass half full kinda’ thinking.

Hobbies took the words right out of my mouth in yesterday’s comment.

A six-year-old who knows the word “incontrovertible” and how to use it, needs a better teacher than Miss Wormwood.

Don’t worry about tomorrow, today has enough trouble of it’s own. Mathew 6:34.

Someone is in dire need of a good ’ol set of natural consequences.

Absolutely clear and rational thinking. This could be the beginning of the Great Blizzards of 1888 when snow was measured in feet rather than inches. Great that Calvin is thinking ahead and being prepared to do his homework in the month off school.

Why are you wasting your breath, Hobbes? You DO know who you’re talking to, right?

Let’s say, hypothetically, it’s another snow day.

Nowadays, if there is a snow-day, classes would just switch to remote online learning. If I didn’t already know this cartoon was dated, I’d figure it out now.

Not sure that the odds are good for several snow days in a row, Calvin.

Makes perfect sense. Direct observational expression of occupying space flowing through time to dependent expectations based on a plethora of complex phenomenons interacting.

Any excuse is good enough for a procrastinator.

Calvin is managing his time well.

If there is snow on the ground, chances are it’s winter which means the sun sets early and it will be dark after dinner. While it is possible to make a snow goon in the dark, it’s easier to do it in daylight. Math can be done in the dark and in Calvin’s case, he’s probably been in the dark about math all along.

Let’s go people, we’re burning daylight!

Dad should know that Calvin has a homework assignment not done (sine Calvin woke him up) and should make him finish it.

I drove a snow plow for 30 years, kid. You’re going to school tomorrow

Time to get that boy a credit card!…

I like how he contradicts his dogma at the end, hypothetically, of course.

The goal in life is to live. Tomorrow doesn’t exist

Hard work may bring rewards some day, but procrastination rewards one immediately!

Calvin will make al great left wing, woke liberal. Don’t like reality?….make it what you wish it were. Unfortunately, Hobbes is correct – reality does not change just because you want it to change to your ideology

Calvin:

“I don’t waste time thinking about hypothetical situations”.

Also Calvin:

“Hypothetically, it could be another snow day”.

Calvin is oblivious to his contradictions. Like someone else I know.

If it takes Hobbes half as long as Calvin to roll a snowball one foot in diameter, how long will it take Calvin to finish his math homework?

That home works isnt getting done

1 plus 1 can’t be that hard.

That pang of guilt didn’t last long.

As Hobbes so famously said in another arc, “It’s always later until it’s right now”.

Wagering on the weather never came to nothing…

They could perish in an avalanche in the next few minutes.

I have always wondered why Hobbes wears a scarf in the winter.

The irony is dripping.

I love procrastination