Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 12, 2011

it didn’t work.

Must have used the wrong magic word…

You will have to do it yourself, only this helps to keep it in your own brain! What a hard life!

you didn’t say it properly. try again

This takes me back. I tried this too and it didn’t work then either.

Try, “Eenie, Meenie, Jelly Beanie. The spirits are about to speak!”

I don’t remember having to do homework when I was 8 years old

And this is way before Harry Potter.

I had homework in the second grade…from those mean old Nuns. Mom helped me by helping to read some of it.

Calvin meets King Canute at the shoreline.

Some of you weren’t clapping.Everyone has to clap & believe.

It must have been French language homework.

Now see, the post-Harry Potter generation understands that you need your magic wand to make this work.

Nice try Calvin, maybe next time

Perhaps you should hire a professional, Calvin.

Magic is fine…. but it is much better to have an older sister who you pay to do your homework. That way you have time for the more important things in life…. like fishing, walking in the woods, pondering the mystery of clouds, discussing the meaning of life with Hobbes….

Hocus-pocus and abracadabra might neutralize each other!

Is Calvin taking “rats” name in vain, or is rats another magic word?

How does flipping the pages of the book determine whether the homework is done, or is Calvin speedreading?

It’s probably easier to just learn his school work than to try to learn magic.

@Pokerfaced Parrot,Does “Boooooooooo!” mean that my pun doesn’t have a ghost of a chance?BTW, I’ll ‘bet’ a pokerfaced parrot would be good at bluffing in poker.

i would stick to the dog eat my home work

haha… i have tried this too !!!!

As with Buggs Bunny, “Hocas-cadabra”, or “Abbra-capocas.”.\\//_

Eeny meeny chili beanie.

If anyone figures out the magic word for cleaning, please please let me know.

You know, Calvin, that you could easily do your homework, or spend twice as much effort and time reading up on spells and witchcraft to learn how to make the homework do itself. Which one will you choose? Any bets?

I prefer Pocuscadabra. After all, it worked for Bugs Bunny!

@ Richard S Russell said …

“It’s not a VERBAL spell, it’s a WRITTEN spell, and you have to get it down just right in order for it to work.”

Strangely the spell varies every day, and has a remarkable relationship to the assignment at hand.

Go figure …

@dahawk,You’re ‘baiting’ me, aren’t you? (The fishing comments were several days ago.) ‘To whom am I talking?’I assume you are referring to my two comments that were questions. They were mostly rhetorical, and were not directly related to anything said here today except in the comic itself, but anyone is welcome to respond to them.

I had homework in elementray school (and it was a public school). In first grade (Calvin’s age) we had number and counting exercises and reading.Second grade was mostly reading, spelling, and arithmetic (addition and subtraction)In fourth grade we had to memorize poetry — not kids’ rhymes but Longfellw, Keats, and so on — It tought me to hate poetry (Later, thanks to a good teacher in 11th grade, I learned the beauty of poetry). We also had spelling bees which were humiliating. It seemed that most of the other students got words like “daisy” and “banana” and I usually got words like “rhizomateous” and “paraphernalia.” I did not enjoy fourth grade.

First he needed to get the eye of newt… We didn’t get homework until high school,which was then the 9th grade.

I never liked homework either Calvin..

LOL xxx

Magic words didnt do my homework as a young fellow ,still dont do diddly,but sure feels good to threaten a problem .

In tenth grade biology, I had enough extra credit points alone to pass. But I had turned in virtually no homework. Fail.

@Richard S. RussellHow can Calvin get a WRITTEN spell down right?He has yet to pass a spelling test!

@ChukLitl Whoa! You’re mocking The Church?!

Where is Hobbes?

Our present Federal administration seem to be using this technique, or perhaps they’re just using the force instead….

tough luck clavin

Was worth a shot…

He could blame the dog, but the dog ate itself.

My homework was rarely on paper. However, soon as I got home, I had to search a 40-acre woods/pasture for the milk cow and milk her before supper. Next morning, milk her again before turning her back out into the pasture. Before school. This finally ended one day when dad and I were cultivating corn, and quit early to do the chores. Then he said, here we are neglecting hundreds of dollars worth of corn for 30c worth of milk! The cow was sold shortly after. (how many kids these days would know how to milk a cow?)

In all my years of trying, that has never worked for me either Calvin

I wish that worked.

Maybe Calvin should have tried this one instead. Perhaps he’d have had better luck??? “Prest-O, Change-O . . .Homework Be Done-O!" ;-)

FUNNY!

:D

It would not evan work at Hogwarts

worth a try =D

A Harry Potter he is not.

practice “let the gods answer me” instead.