Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for May 14, 2010

Poor Suzie….

good morning, everybody!

Distract Calvin?!

evil Calvin…

Alert the PC police!

Calvin wins!

Only until Ms. Wormwood sees his bug “collection” – then he loses big.

This is only the first round, VistaBill. It gets even uglier next week.

NOT FAIR!!!!!!!!!!!

Miss Wormwood should already know by now who the real culprit is…..

I don’t remember this story arc. My guess is that Calvin steals her bug collection while she is up front.

Calvin would not be so evil as to steal Susie’s bugs from her desk and say they were his, would he??? Naw, that would be evil evil!

Oops, I see that zerotsm just beat me to it. :-(

Calvin you little jerk! That was not very nice, getting Susie in trouble like that.

You’re SO right, Calvin. You’ll acknowledge that as you get older.

Yeah, those sneaky girls…

Yes, Miss Perkins; do not distract Calvin! Let him sink on his own without any obvious chances for excuses.

It happens quite often. If you are too careful, you end up being the victim. Some unwritten laws in the universe.

Calvin, you jerk…

Oh, Marg, she knew the rules & chose to break that one! LOL

Shame on you! Susie you know better than to talk in class. (giggles)

You deserve the punishment. You had been discouraging Calvin right from the start and now you wouldn’t even help him with names of bugs. It has all been your fault.

There should be a ‘stink bug’ in the collection.

Love the look of horror on Susie’s face as she gets caught.

A small victory in the face of a big failure, Calvin

Go Calvin! you are the boy! you really know how to handle girls!

I don’t approve stealing -usually-, but Calvin, what can you do else to save yourself in this very moment? overall, you are already an atheist ( I think), no God punishment fear for you!

Now we actually even know how ‘BOYS’ are .. :-P

Round 1 goes to Calvin, but we all know that what goes ‘round comes ‘round!

Calvin1 Susie 0. Whadda think, Calvin? Would Susie miss just a “couple” of bugs?

Good morning Marg! Good morning Fran and Kizzy!

Does Calvin have a last name? Does anyone know?

Good morning all! I don’t ever remember seeing it Mike Firesmith but, as they originally were a type of nickname tacked on to descibe the person such as John’s son or Smith, then Calvin’s should be Evil or Self-righteous. Look at that face of his in the last panel!

As a teacher, I have an observation to make: The teacher seldom catches the first offender or provocateur. Most of the times, s/he gets the one who answers back.

Exhibit A: Susie Derkins.

In other order of things, Bill Waterson never gave a last name to Calvin. As a matter of fact, he recognized he intentionally never gave a first name to Calvin´s dad or Calvin´s mom.

They will be forever “dad” or “mom”.

What was Lt. Columbo (Peter Falk) first name? . . . . . . . . . . Liutenant. It never had a first name in the series.

Oh, he’s going to get it at recess… that’s for sure…

In response to Adntu. I remember in one strip when Hobbes asked Calvin if he believed in God. Calvin responded “well somebody’s out to get me”.

Columbo’s first name was Frank. It was never spoken on the show, but his police ID card was shown many times with his signature clearly on it – “Frank Columbo”.

I’m sure a lot of us had a similar experience to Susie. I know I once had someone who always tried to get my help in class. Since he sat behind me I was the one getting caught when he talked. The teacher finally figured it out when she had me change seats - and it happened to the next kid too.

calvin, this will come back to bite you in the ………

sucking up before your inevitable death i see

We all know that Calvin never gets distracted from his schoolwork.

REAL fun fact quiz: Who played Mrs. Columbo? (Hint: she later captained a starship.)

Much later in real time, she’ll get a yellow card for hitting back on a soccer field.

Calvin is really getting ready for his political career. Another kid gets in trouble for all the problems he causes.

I always tried to avoid doing anything to get in trouble, but some teachers would punish the whole class for the actions of a few. I remember feeling a bit like Susie here, as I took it very personally that I was being punished for something I hadn’t done.

well why doesnt that surprise me. tsk tsk

Well since nobody has answered @freeholder1 yet…

Mrs. Columbo was played (in a separate series, without Peter Falk) by Kate Mulgrew, who also played Capt. Janeway on Star Trek: Voyager.

Perhaps Suzie should consider a temporary alliance with Mo!

Nah, there are too many syllables in “temporary” for Mo to grasp.

This story arc is included in “The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes.” For a change, Susie will be the one sent to the principal’s office.

Nice Calvin.

I just hope he doesn’t have the nerve to take Susie’s collection and pass it as his. Wouldn’t surprise me :-)

Have a good day, everyone

I remember the short show of Mrs. Columbo, but didn’t remember the name on the badge of Lt. Columbo. How I miss those shows.

There was this girl who would always managed to get my daughter in trouble at school by talking always upset her. The girl got away with it she spoke softly and teachers never heard her. My daughter was glad she finally had graduated from HS and never had that problem again.

The same thing happened to me in school once, about 50 years ago. I never fully recovered. The unfairness of it all!

Has anyone seen the new commercials on TV about school over crowding and no teacher. A young lady walks in wonders where the teacher is the students tell her they where let go and in comes the principle carrying two more new students in a crowded room asks if she is the new teacher she says no, he says you are now. That is very hard to view and what taxpayers and parents of children will be facing with the budget cuts.

Kab, isn’t that the one with Megan Fox? I saw it online somewhere.

A good thing Susie and Moe are not good friends . A good thing Moes not trying to impress girls yet, you know like beat the tar out of Calvin to get Susies attention

Calvin, how could you?!!!

Calvin is a naughty meano :|

Susie got what she deserved. She didn’t help Calvin even a tiny bit in preparing his bug “collection”!

Good move Miss Wormwood….Calvin can now apply himself to his studies without any further interference from that troublemaking Derkins girl.

I’m glad Calvin got his assignment done despite Susie’s indifference. It was as if she was purposely trying to keep him from getting it done all morning. Thwarting his efforts at every turn.

Send her to the Principal’s office for talking so much, and distracting poor little Calvin. Call her parents in for a meeting. Maybe she needs an appointment with the school social worker too, to learn how to be a lot friendlier to other children, especially to poor little Calvin.

He’s thinking up scientific names. I can’t stop laughing at every part of this one.

Don’t sweat it folks… karma’s gonna pay calvin back, though not before susie has a significant emotional experience…

Monk has been a great Columbo Lite for the last few years.

I wonder what scientific name he came up with for the piece of lint?

Susie got herself in trouble. Stop blaming Calvin for everything.

Vardmark, you stole my avatar

As I have said in previous posts, Calvin is in training to be a lawyer/politician. REAL smooth talker, that kid…hahaha…

mexdr1958 said, about 10 hours ago

In other order of things, Bill Waterson never gave a last name to Calvin. As a matter of fact, he recognized he intentionally never gave a first name to Calvin´s dad or Calvin´s mom.

They will be forever “dad” or “mom”.

Which is why “Uncle Max” never came back–it was too awkward for him not to be able to call his brother and sister-in-law by name.

What was Lt. Columbo (Peter Falk) first name?

On a related note, what is Inspector Morse’s first name?

Now that’s just not right!!

(stifles evil laughter)

@Kab Buch, yes I just saw it this morning. Nice condensing job, btw. It does say a lot… you have to laugh and cry.

On 2nd thought Calvin you should not tell the teacher that your home work is so bad because of Susie s chattering.

”You know how girls are.” Hah! Make that double Hah! How twue…how twue.

School is just the first place you learn… not just lessons in books but life’s education of fairness and lack there of!

What about the Booger Beetle Calvin ?

I’m surprised she didn’t thank the teacher for the move. That would have thrown a curve into the situation.

Actually Calvin would be right about “You know how girls are”, just not in first grade.

I think the teacher knows the truth, and will catch Calvin red handed.

No, Susie was not having a pleasant conversation at all.

We all love to see Miss Goody-two-shoes get it.

And, we all know that women (girls) are the root of all Eve-ill – making those poor guys do all kinds of things they would never think of doing if we didn’t make ‘em do it.

I just saw the movie “Babies” and it is amazing how over & over the older kid gets the baby crying or in trouble and the moms never get it & blame the baby.

Interesting thoughts today. Ok the lint is a Lintus dustus but on a more serious note Calvin could tell miss Wormwood to get out a microscope and check out his numerous North American House Dust Mites, Dermatophagoides farinae which technically aren’t insects but arachnids (8 legs) but could fall into the general catch-all phrase “bug”. They should be all over that Lintus dustus. Good night all!

How can anybody in his or her right mind fault Suzie for not trying to help Calvin???????????????????????????

Seriously!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That particular Titanic was sunk not in the mid-Atlantic, but before it left the dock. There was simply no repairing the situation by the time Calvin got to the bus stop, and trying to help him do so then or afterwards would be the height of foolishness. And Calvin would learn nothing from it.

As for Suzie being caught out for something she didn’t do: I’ve been there as a kid. When I did do something wrong I was humiliated. But that was nothing compared to being falsely accused and then not believed despite all my hard work at building a reputation for honesty. I know exactly how Suzie feels.

Mrs. Wormwood really hasn’t a clue at this point; she should give Suzie, not Calvin, every benefit of the doubt., given her long history with both of them. That kind of snap judgment against Suzie, without even being sure of what was going on, is inexcusable IRL and even as a substitute teacher I didn’t do that sort of thing.

And before anyone tells me to calm down because “after all, this is just a comic strip”… well, yes, and I can appreciate that, but it’s the real-life attitudes it brings out in some of its readers that really has me scratching my head. Common sense evidently is even less common than it used to be.

Real nice, Calvin!

We used to get, “If I hear one more word from you two back there I’m going to have to separate you two!” My best friend used to say, “Ow, wow, you’ve really got us shaking now!” He was and will always be my hero!

really calvin girls are pest!!!……….isn’t it..