Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for October 14, 2009

Time for the T-Rex to take a time out….

Cookies bedarned, he’s going to get cooked.

Cookies are the right dessert after the butcher meal. Way to go, Calvin !

Of course you can’t take him anywhere. You should know that by now mom.

I looove Kraft Chips Ahoy! cookies! Yuuummy!

Now the Tyrannosaurus wants to be grounded until he’s 34 …

…Tyrannosaurus alert, clean up on aisles 1 thru 24. Thank you for shopping at our store, have a good one!

Going out of business sale at Sam’s Supermarket this Friday, Saturday & Sunday only!

A muppet-that’s not a cookie monster. ^That’s a Cookie Monster…

Good for the butcher. Every dog has his day.

Oh the hours of boredom (well, it seemed like hours) I spent shopping with my mother. If only I’d had Calvin’s imagination… I might have been left at home.

Dx, full bed restraints.

A WISE shopper will always eat and fodder all rogue or rabid children before entering any supermarket !

I remember those days going shoppong with my mom… Once I ended needing stitches because my brother was following me everywhere grrr!

What if she let Calvin push the cart?: “Oh, no there’s a giant bulldozer loose in the store…!”

Once he hit his stride, BW drew some really fantastic dinosaurs. Here’s one.

The obvious answer to the problem is to leave Calvin [or any ill behaved kid] at home. Don’t you just love it when a mom will bring an ill behaved child to the store with her and then let it run loose and ignore what its doing.

T-Rex Calvin is a little lucky he wsn’t hurt in a canned food avalanche.

All unattended children should be given a double latte and a puppy on the way out the door

Why didn’t Mom know that Calvin CAN create havoc ANYWHERE? Calvin should be canned! Calvin didn’t get a cookie with his fake dynamite recently. He certainly has blown it now. Yes, a time out is highly recommended until Calvin learns…

Is it Calvin’s fault or his upbringing? A good swat on the…….

It’s probably Calvin’s fault AND his upbringing!

yeah, mom definately fits in with MANY parents today, rug rats everywhere. They’re as bad a all those ankle biters.

RobinaFox said,

Oh the hours of boredom (well, it seemed like hours) I spent shopping with my mother. If only I’d had Calvin’s imagination… I might have been left at home.

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I hated going grocery shopping with my mom too. She wouldn’t buy anything I asked for and she’d get on me for dragging my feet.

As for leaving Calvin at home, we’ve already seen what kind of trouble he can get into when he’s left unattended. I guess since she’s not rich and can’t afford to hire Roselyn to come babysit for him every time she needs to go to the store, the only other answer is to lock him in a cage til she gets back.

Well, really, some of the most annoying students I’ve had, made great adults later. It is a shame that what makes really bright sucessful adults, often makes children the most troublesome. I tried to make allowances for that when teaching! :)

So true, lightartsteacher.

If I tried acting like that in the store duing my youth, my Mom would deliver a good swift kick to my rear-end. I think Calvin needs that more than a time out to snap him out of that T-Rex immitation

Calvin in a supermarket = Doctor Toon nightmare.

I’d hate to think of what would have happened to me if I had pulled something like this when I was a kid. I bet I still wouldn’t be able to sit comfortabley, I would have gotten such a whoopin’ !!

i well remember what happened when i played around in the grocery store, oh the pain

now some stores have incorporated child care services for people who have children, even though my youngest is 22 there are times i’d like to leave hm there

There was a turning point in the Calvin strip when his behavior went from cute hi-jinks to just being a brat. I stopped reading the original run at that point. I think we’re close.

I don’t know why he’d want cookies for dessert. A baker usually follows a butcher…

I wouldn’t object to an appropriate spanking for Calvin.That’s how he might get CANNED. BTW, did you notice how the can of tuna was opened yesterday? He must have used one of those old-fashioned can openers.It’s a wonder Calvin didn’t cut and slice his fingers.

Just wait til his mom gets him out in the jurassic park-ing lot…

How does mom not know this yet?

It’s interesting that they just recently discovered a human-size T. rex relative. About 150 pounds!

Very cool, bmonk! From the article:

”It would seem to a human that forelimbs are so useful, that only when you got to the size of a tyrannosaur and you could frighten everybody with a growl could you get rid of [forearms],” he said.

”But this common sense type of thinking almost never works with evolution,” Sereno said. In the tyrannosaurs, for instance, “long, heavy forelimbs are a significant burden and would seriously curtail agility in the hunt.”

I submit that it’s the evolutionist who’s lacking common sense here (as is true so often; his straw man arguments never cease to amaze and amuse me). Humans are designed (sic) differently because they have different needs. Calvin notwithstanding, they don’t go running around like Raptorex and T. rex do after prey, nor do they capture their food in the same way. We need long forearms. They don’t. That’s “common sense”.

The beast ate the butcher—haha, I love Calvin’s catastrophic justice.

Calvin greedy!

Certainly some humorless posts here today. It’s a comic strip, folks.

A monster in the store and in real life, heh, when I used to work for Homebase I used to tell naughty kids that we had a cage out the back for naughty kids, many a grateful parent were glad when that (apparent) threat calmed the situation down ;)

This is dangerous behavior Moms do break down and whip the devil out of little boys

cleanup on aisle… . ah what the heck, cleanup on the whole store “we are currently closed for t rex tranquilization

I find those car games they have in the store solved the problems in the grocery store for my son. We had these box ones that folded out and had magnetic pieces to play on the board. We had checkers, tic-tac-toe, and the favorite was shoots and ladders. Later we got him a had held computer game that taught numbers, shapes, and letter problems. The favorite game was hangman. Once when I was reading the cold medicine he was taking the shampoo bottles down in Rite Aid and arranging them in groups by matching colors. I thought it was cute but the girl in the store almost had a stroke! I was calm about it and I turned it into a seek’n’find lesson on shape and where on the shelves the matching bottles were as we put them away. The calm method works much better because if you yell and carry on they’ll do that or worse when they get bored in a store because they know it bothers you!