Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 02, 2012

should have seen that you were setting yourself up for a trap calvin

Talk about the noodle incident.

Translation – As long as I don’t have to clean my room, I’ve got nothing to do.

Bad move.

Once again, the wrong thing to say.

That’s nice, Calvin. Go clean your room.

Never, ever, tell your mother that you don’t have anything to do. The results will be horrific.

My take on the 3rd panel: Mom is contemplating becoming an advocate for birth control.

I think Mom will have the last brag. She’s contemplating all the things she can get you to do.

She’s digging your grave Calvin.

get away calvin and dun say so much…

Idle hands …. idle mind …. watch out Suzie!!

Laughed out loud at this! Gonna try this joke on my wife today………uh, or maybe not.

Calvin thinks ‘he calls a spade a spade’, but Mom thinks he’s ‘shoveling’ it!

Click here: Peanuts (November 15, 1958)

@GretchensMom: Be sure to read the late postings from several people yesterday.

Ooh, not a smart comment, Calvin! You’d have a long list of things to do in my house.

@ GretchensMom – I’m sorry about the loss of your cousin, and I agree with living life to it’s fullest. Enjoy, love, and laugh! Hugs and ♥♥ to you!

@GretchensMom I just caught up and wanted to say, I am so very sorry for the loss of your cousin. I agree wholeheartedly about living life as if it can be easily taken away. My mother is recovering from surgery as we speak. It was unexpected and we almost lost her. She is doning fine now, but it really brings home how fragile life truly is.

Calvin, for a smart kid, you don’t know when to keep your mouth shut…..do you.

wah

Calvin really doesn’t know when to keep his mouth shut!

Poor Mum…

What do you expect from Calvin?

LOL xxx

Nice save, Calvin.

Bill W. vicariously living through Calvin. He needed a light work day. Enjoy Bill; you deserve it.

@cookies333: Lucy is speaking for their mom in this one, because there are no adults in the strip. So it makes Lucy seem even more crabby sometimes, because she is also the bearer of bad news from their mom to Linus. In the early years, Charles Schulz experimented with parents’ voices coming from outside the panels, but then he gave up on that and used Lucy instead.The panels in the earliest Peanuts strips were so short that there was no room to show adults full height next to the kids, without making the kids tiny. Calvin and Hobbes works better this way because the panels are much taller. In today’s strip, note that Mom is more than twice as tall as Calvin, but the panel is tall enough that you can still see Calvin fine.

@sonnygreen: Actually, Bill W. is enjoying a light couple of decades. Today’s strip is from July 1992.

he’s hit a high note on the Hars

Bragging is a form or offshoot of pride, Calvin; your Mom will gladly help you avoid this deadly Capital Sin.

What if his room is already clean?

Just joshing .

laul thats me

@Bobzilla,They already have, …it’s called abortion!

Methinks that shovel may be employed to adjust Calvin’s attitude…