Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 21, 2011

I felt like that many times…

Those clock hands just never moved…

i would think of anything except school work.

Calvin, just be glad its not Groundhog Day.

Damn, you beat me to it! Let the sunshine in.

My 3rd grade teacher made me write down whatever I was daydreaming about

I can relate to this strip, since the strip is based on universal human experience, so I’m going to tell the whole world via this message board that I’m a human.

Don’t care who you are; that Zit Cream reference is FUNNY. I often had the same reaction to calculus, which also didn’t seem to make much sense.

Would you like to rideIn my beautiful balloon?

The next time Calvin needs to carry the three into the tens column, he probably won’t know how!

Calvin is doomed to boredom in perpetuity since forever never ends!BTW, I realize that Calvin is hyperbolizing!Even Jesus deliberately exaggerated at times to make a point more obvious (“a camel going through the eye of a needle”, for example).

I, too, felt as though time stood still when I was in class. But this is the song that I thought of reading this:

♫♪I can see you in the morning when you go to schoolDon’t forget your books, you know you’ve got to learn the golden rule,Teacher tells you stop your play and get on with your workAnd be like Johnnie – too-good, well don’t you know he never shirks- he’s coming along!

After School is over you’re playing in the parkDon’t be out too late, don’t let it get too darkThey tell you not to hang around and learn what life’s aboutAnd grow up just like them – won’t you let it work it out- and you’re full of doubt

Don’t do this and don’t do thatWhat are they trying to do?- Make a good boy of youDo they know where it’s at?Don’t criticize, they’re old and wiseDo as they tell you toDon’t want the devil toCome out and put your eyes

Maybe I’m mistaken expecting you to fightOr maybe I’m just crazy, I don’t know wrong from rightBut while I am still living, I’ve just got this to sayIt’s always up to you if you want to be thatwant to see thatwant to see that way- you’re coming along!♫

Carrying a 3 would only happen in multiplicaton. If they’re doing that in 1st grade I can see where he’d be lost.

@ puddleglum 2 — Actually, Jesus’ reference to the “eye of the needle” isn’t to an actual needle. The entrance gates to the walled cities were called the eyes of the needle (don’t ask me why. That wasn’t discussed in my Religion classes).

I’d be happy with an entire book of Spaceman Spiff. He’s got to be my favorite Calvin “incarnation”. Too bad there’s no way for Hobbes to join the fun.

Learning is endless!

I agree with James.

WHHY!

The best Imaginable…Are the genius…

School and work always seemed endless. Now that I am retired time flies by like I am using hyper jets.

The Fifth Dementia?

Awwwww, Poor Calvin…

xxxxx

hobbes could be spiffs faithful companion!

i own all calvin and hobbes comics but im gonna start commenting now.

Of course …………………t i m e ……………..d r a g s …………….o n……………f o r e v e r…………………it’s Math!

Opps…best you can carry to the 10s column would be a 1…

“Not unlike zit cream commercials.” – LOL

Math was always exciting and fun for me. My eighth grade teacher used to have competitions at the blackboard. The class would be divided up into two groups with one person from each group competing. The person who solved the problem first got to take on the next person. Once everyone in one group was beaten, he or she took on people from their group. It nearly always ended up being a competition between me and the teacher’s really pretty daughter (homecoming queen in HS). I was in love with her from the day we first met, but too shy to do anything about it. Me beating her almost every time probably didn’t help.We moved away to another city when I was in the 9th. Dated a little while in college, but that required a commute and she already had a semi steady boyfriend. I did, however, find a wonderful lady that I dearly love, but your first love always has a special place in one’s heart. I was saddened to hear she passed away in 1995.Anyway, my love (and ease) for math made for a very rewarding engineering career. Wish I had paid more attention in English. That would have helped in writing those test plans and reports.Sorry for being so long winded. Another one of my faults.

A column of numbers may give you a 3 in the ten’s column. That may not be 1st grade, either, but it’s earlier than multiplication. By the way, at age 6, Calvin may be in the 2nd grade. I was.

So, when the power is gone and the batteries fail, what do you do without your precious bits of technology? I’ve already experienced many checkout people who can’t make correct change without the machine telling them what it is.

Space man Spiff,your the best.

I believe if I stare at something long enough, it turns into the star gate from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Seriously. If Calvin thinks his Math class lasts forever, wait until he grows up and gets his first job. The first hour and last hour of my shift are always the longest hours of the day! :D

Einstein said if you travled fast enough you would in fact go back in time… Better lay off that Hyper-speed button “spif”

@catlady1, dkram, and dahawk,Some people believe what you have presented about “the eye of a needle” referring to the entrance gates of walled cities. The idea goes back to the 15th century, and maybe as far back at the 9th century, but I have read numerous articles and other writings stating that there is no evidence of such gates. Also, there would be no such gates in the coasts of Judea beyond Jordan where Jesus was at this time. Jesus often pointed out things such as “the lilies of the field” when he wanted to impress more emphatically on the people what he wanted them to understand, and probably would have done so in this case. Therefore, I stand by my position that Jesus meant it as an hyperbole to make his point more obvious.

@Bailey,My ten-year-old granddaughter is named Baylee.If Bailey is your last name, are you the “Bill Bailey, won’t you please come home?” …probably not. :o)

well im late but ohwell im going into algrabra or how ever u spell it a grade early and if i thought pre algrabra went on for ever i cant amangin how long algrabra is going be like plz exscuse my algrabra spelling i not good at spelling algrabra

Daydreaming beats the hell out of thinking any day of the week = Walter MItty….