Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 29, 2009

Three strikes Calvin. You’re out.

Yeah, that’s it! Aliens! From Pluto! Yeah!

Some how I feel ‘Dad, I was trying to fix a leaking faucet’ would have been better.

Vibjyor is right, to say the truth would be better!

I can’t wait what Hobbes has to say…

Hobbes’ll probably tell the truth. “HE DID IT!”

Calvin would never admit that it is his fault…

Believe it or not, there are actually people that will Never admit that they are wrong, ever, on anything.

I believe all three stories, I also believe those men wouldn’t be in Washington if they didn’t know what they were doing.

Admitting that he tried to fix faucet would mean admitting that he was stupid. It is much worse than being just bad and naughty.

Three filthy lies Calvin, tsk, tsk tsk !!! That will cause the Great Pumpkin and Santa to pass you by !

Nice new hair-do Calvin! But the truth will appreciated by Dad, too bad….

tbree: I worked with a 20 year old girl like that. No matter what she did wrong it wasn’t her fault it was someone else’s. She came in to be trained by me and I had problems with her repeated screw-ups and me trying to correct her and her telling me she was going to do it her way! I told my supervisor about her problem on Monday and she had already gotten caught for several screw-ups and blamed them on me! I had trained many people before and this was the first time I ran into this behavior. This happened repeatedly and I told the supervisor not to keep her on after her trial period but she was such a, “kiss-up” that she wouldn’t listen. She made problems for everyone in the department and finally stormed out one day saying, “She didn’t have to take this kind of abuse”. We all applauded after she left and she never came back! Yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wonder if that’s payback from what Calvin’s Dad did to his Pop?

“Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.”

Sir Walter Scott

C’mon Dad, look in Calvin’s innocent eyes and forgive him…..

tqnis, Is stupidity a sin after all? Far be it from me to disagree!

@Dino-1 We had pretty much the same problem here, this girl came in for an interview straight from college, she appeared quite bright and willing to work so she got hired. Within a week she was spending most of the working day hidding the fact that she was doing nothing but social networking on the PC or her cell, and messing all her work up (the first can be ignored if the work gets done). When brought up on the the mistakes she was making she would blame the person who gave her the job saying they told her to do it that way or didn’t explain it properly, or that they never told her how to do it at all (the fact that there’s a procedure manual seemed to have gone in one ear and out the other), as the pressure built she directed her attention on her supervisor and tried her hardest to get her sacked, unfortunately for her the company boss and the supervisor are good personal friends so he had already got to hear all about her, after a few quick checks with the rest of us and a couple of written warnings she was out the door without any references. It seems there are a lot of people out there like this :(

As for Calvin and Hobbes… I’m impressed how despondant and sorrowful Hobbes can look, whilst in stealth mode, at the sound of Calvin’s denials and blame. You never know the truth might have got him brownie points with dad… ’Aww! He’s tring to be like me’

Yukoner, “…when first we practice to deceive.” It has been so from the FALL in the beginning when Eve was deceived by the serpent, (as I’m sure you know). Genesis chapter 3

Nick V (from yesterday), And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found anymore in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, who deceives the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. Revelation 12:7-9

You gotta know that Calivin is just following man’s oldest tradition. When God asked Adam why he ate the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, Adam spoke right up and said, “Eve made me do it”. We’ve been doing that ever since.

Hey Yukoner, your observation doesn’t seem like something that a person in the territories would come up with. Unless, of course, your up in Dawson City and looking at that winter coming down the river.

I guess you could somehow compare Calvin’s mishap with spring break-up although it never occurred to me to blame it on the kids.

That’s it Calvin. When on the hot seat, pass the buck.

jrbj said, “We’ve been doing that ever since.” “And the woman (Eve) said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.” And Flip Wilson said, “The Devil made me do it.” I agree that there has been a find a scapegoat mentality among humans from time immemorial, but in this case I believe both Adam and Eve were confessing to God. What each of them said was a statement of fact. In my opinion they were not accusations. Note the implied first blood sacrifice in verse 21 for the forgiveness of sins (requiring repentance). “The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Romans 6:23

I might believe the one about the aliens. But not that they had bug eyes.

Calvin merely observed the first rule of congress “when in doubt, deny, deny, deny”.

When mom finds out she will probably say to dad: “If you had fixed that leaky faucet, Calvin wouldn’t have been tempted to try and fix it.” Because in the end they always blame dad. It’s too bad that Calvin didn’t listen to Hobbes and figure out how to shut off the water. Given Calvin’s penchant for over doing the small things, he probably would have shut off the water main to the house. That would have gotten mom and dad’s attention.

i’m back i was at seaworld

I can’t believe this kid’s imagination. I sure hope he won’t become a politician (though he lies well enough for that) because we’d lose a great potential science fiction writer.

Trying to push the blame on Hobbes is a BAD idea.

Calvin is tummy deep in water and Hobbes has to be soaked all the way through!! LOL

Dad, don’t worry about this one, it’s done! Ask what he has planned next!!

If Calvin were Pinochio…

“Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.”

Now I know Calvin’s calling in life. He is going to be an engineer. However, I never heard one blame his screwup on bug-eyed space aliens.

For those who’ve read this far, thank you. I have just two comments: RE: “Oh what a tangled web …” I have an addition, “And if at first we don’t succeed, lie, lie again.” And as for the aliens from Pluto, they’re probably still steaming about their planetoid being downgraded from planet status and are seeking havok on Earth thru various evil and nefarious acts such as this.

I’d go with the pluto aliens story. It has the most potential. I mean now that Pluto is demoted from planet to asteroid plutoans would be looking for payback (not to mention the complex about their bug eyes). As Calvin is destined to be future ruler of earth, it makes sense for plutoans to try to skrew things up for Cavin. Who knows if they didn’t make the faucet leak in the first place?

My son was not near as bad as Calvin, but he liked to help his dad. His main problem and it caught up with him and he finally admitted what we stressed to him tell the truth lies will always hurt/harm.

o/ Oh, we dig dig dig dig dig dig dig, we dig the whole day through, for to dig dig dig dig dig dig dig is what we like to do! o/

The truth might have been a bit more agreeable. At least Dad wouldn’t have been surprised.

Cosby: “The man came in the window!”

any lawyer will tell you: deny , deny , deny!

When you’re in a hole QUIT DIGGING!

And let us also not forget, “I didn’t do it. It did it all by itself!”

Just tell the truth, Calvin, no matter how hard it hurts.

Carbo Diem Calvin!

This is the last time the Plutonians will trust Calvin to keep his word.

I’m not sure who did what, but rest assured it WAS NOT “big, evil, bug-eyed monsters from Pluto”. We had nothing to do with it.

Oh my jester! It is soooooooo hilarious! LOLs! Blame on Calvin for fooling around in the bathroom with his father’s tools!

Can not wait till tomorrow to see Hobbes confronting Calvin

nighthawks said, about 2 denials ago

“any lawyer will tell you: “deny , deny , deny!”

I thought the saying went:

“If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the facts are against you, argue the law. If both are against you, shout louder and wave your hands.”

Calvin is doing well on that third option…

I seem to remember Dad getting much, much more upset over the broken binoculars.

aliens from pluto? sorry calvin but scientists claimed 3 years ago that pluto is not one of the planets, so they can not have aliens

The next frame, if there was a next frame, would have Calvin channeling Tommy Flanagan by saying “Yeah, that’s the ticket’!

I love how Calvin’s expression gets more pathetic and innocent in each subsequent frame.

“It was like that when I got here.”

The Truth and the whole TRUTH, is what is required of you right - NOW - young man!

“Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we try to deceive.”

For pitys sake it’s a comic not life lessons !

Dads going to let him off I wish I had that kind of foot work when I was his age

tbree, do you live in my neighborhood? I believe I know who you’re talking about.

“It’s the end of the world, Calvin.”

Dad let Calvin off? I most seriously doubt it. At the nearest UPS Store to be shipped to Abu Dhabi, maybe.

listen to him hobbes,he’s blaming everything on you,what a rat calvin is,hobbes wll deal with him.

listen to him hobbes,he’s blaming you for all this mess,deal with the little rat after dad leaves.

Look at the pleased smile on Calin’s face in the first panel!

More like a dopey grin. :) The kind you get when you’re trying desperately to think of creative excuses in the face of a parental tirade.

Hobbes turn to convince dad to forgive Calvin, if it doesn’t work two outs now

lol I always laugh my head off at the third excuse that Calvin makes.

what a mess