Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 21, 2009

But it’s what you were thinking, Hobbes…..

Nothing good can come from this.

Hobbes got all the good reasons to doubts. But sometimes Calvin needs the encouragment?

I’m sure Dad will be surprised with his son’s abilities.

Does anyone have a phone number for Noah?

He didn’t have to.

The surprising thing is, none of us NEED to see the next frame to know what it contains.

The UNsurprising thing is, none of us need to see the next frame to know what it contains. :)

Just go get a bucket, a mop, and two life preservers, Dr. Doom.

My son had my old toolbox and would help his Dad with projects in the garage and fixing the car. In the house though I only remember him taking things apart to see how they worked. He was good at taking his clock and toys apart and I’d find screws missing from things around the house often. No big story only typical boy stuff!

Calvin before you start that small job, remember Murphy’s laws !!

Grazer you’re right, get the mops and buckets, it’s gonna pour sooner or later…

Now thats a first .. whats wrong Calvin? scoring some last minute Santa points for christmas?

OK, Hobbes… time to start rowing a boat! Fasssstttt…. get one, we dont hv much time!

You don’t get Calvin doing good deeds for nothing - except around Christmas time. My guess is that he is planning to sabotage the pipes to squirt water into his dads face.

The only thing worse than a kid who won’t take initiative to help around the house is one who will.

Good for Calvin! See a problem, attempt a solution. Too many are afraid to even try. Instead, they naively rely on the opinions of marginally competent “experts”.

My grandfather used to give me old components from cars, appliances, etc. He’d let me take them apart and then have me explain what I thought the thing-a-ma-jig did and how it worked. Then he would have me reassemble the whole thing.

As a result, the only things I can’t fix now are things that aren’t broke. Thank you Gramps for the gift of self-reliance!

The road to perdition.

I’m sure you’ll fix it well Calvin. Two feet and getting deeper.

Sometimes, “discretion is the better part of valor”.

Calvin has all the ‘tools’ for this job except skill, experience, manual dexterity. etc.

Should Hobbes ‘wrench’ the tool out of Calvin’s hand? It’s going to be ‘a violent wrench’ one way or the other.

Remember fixing Dad’s watch?

Quick Hobbes go find Dad! Or Mom! Or someone to stop him before your house is flooded!

I’m thinking of the next strip. Its amazing

This is the only way for Calvin to learn! Right? For dad, too!! LOL

Hobbes, you can help Calvin by getting a boat and two of every animal (one of the tigers being yourself).

Also, I love Hobbes expression in the third panel, like he knows nothing good can come of this.

Calvin, remember the camera incident …

there is going to be an indoor pool in the house

pool party at calvins

The fun’s just starting!

This does not bode well! This is an accident waiting to happen. Poor dad!

DOOM DOOM DOOM!!!

There’s more than one ‘drip’ in the cartoon, Hobbes is thinking.

“The age at which children are said to have discretion, is not very accurately ascertained. Under seven years, it seems that no circumstances can be admitted to overthrow the strong presumption of innocence, which is raised by an age so tender.” - from The Free Dictionary That’s why Macushlalondra is right. Get Dad, ‘Dr. Doom’! Supervision, guidance, and direction are needed here. That’s the ‘prescription’ for success in this situation.

You only learn through your mistakes. Just think how smart Calvin will be when he grows up.

If he doesn’t kill himself first!

Or if Dad doesn’t kill him first!

let’s see … was the first step turning off the water or was it the electricity?

The more mistakes he can make, the more he can learn, is Calvin’s motto. Some people don’t learn from their mistakes. They just keep making more of them, ad infinitum. I prefer to learn from other people’s mistakes, if possible.

Yes, gaebie, kill is the key word, one way or the other.

uhh OHHHH!

The last I heard it costs around $100 to get a plumber to make an emergency call and that’s before he actually starts his work. Calvin, do you really want to fix the drip?

Calvin will learn that it is better to tolerate an occassional annoying drip than to suffer from a continuous gushing torrent of unwelcome sewage.

Family story: when my older brother was 4 or 5, Mom found him on the kitchen counter working away on the toaster.

After that, she gave up trying to keep us from “working” on things around the house. She limited herself to the possible: making sure they were unplugged, the cut-off valves were shut off, and so on.

Vonnegut said, about 1post ago

“Calvin will learn that it is better to tolerate an occassional annoying drip than to suffer from a continuous gushing torrent of unwelcome sewage. ”

No, that’s a faucet. What comes out of it is water, not sewage…

Unfortunately, the occasional annoying ‘drip’ has showed up again and still doesn’t know unwelcome sewage from his elbow. All he gushes is vituperative abuse. Calvin has a wrench. The ‘drip’ throws a monkey wrench into the works.

I wonder if the door is closed?

How deep can it get?

Could our intrepid heroes drown? Mom and Dad need Radar O’Reilly’s ears, Superman’s x-ray eyes, Flash’s speed, and Wonder Woman’s rope.

This will be a learning experience……………………………….FOR DAD!. Dad .will. learn to lock up his tools. Dad will also learn how expensive a plumber can be when called on an emergency basis. Dad will also learn how expensive it can be to replace sheetrock and floor tile due to warer damage. Boy, dad is sure going to learn a lot today.

For some reason Gocomics is not letting me edit my typing mistake on my earlier post.

I think it would be funny if for once Calvin did something right and really fixed the faucet - but then again we know that ain’t going to happen so get out the raincoats and umbrellas ‘cause hurricane Calvin is on the way!!

Oh, dear, oh dear! :D.

something inevitable is waiting to be happen. ha, ha ! :D

The bigger the spanner, the easier she turns.

Murphy’s first law: “If something can go wrong, it will go wrong, at least one time.” See the coming days.

Man (or woman) the lifeboats!

just the way to start off the week. i love mondays! bill watterson knows just what i need, and it shows in every strip of C & H.

your going to get in trouble kid

dad is going to blow the top of his head off when he comes home and see that the house is flooding,where the heck is mom,she should know that something is going on,calvin is to quite,he’s up to something.

This ought to make up for the binoculars. And I love Hobbes’ expression in the third panel.

Anything that can…..WILL….and at the WORST possible moment! (…and to think, there’s this guy in Scotland named McGillicuddy, who thinks Murphy was an optimist!)

Hmmmm, my mother must have gotten the word out years ago to Bill. I didn’t remember this particular ‘toon. It has me written all over it.

Tbree, agreed. Nothing ‘good’ can come from this. I agree that we didn’t need to see panel 3 to know that Calvin was in for trouble.

He’s gonna do better than his dad would at any rate…