Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 10, 1989
Transcript:
Mom: What kind of dinosaur did you say this was? Calvin: It's a stegosaurus! Mom: He looks pretty ferocious. Calvin: No, he was a plant eater. The tail wpikes were for self-defense. Mom: Oh, did tyrannosaurs fight these? Calvin: Of course not, Mom! Tyrannosaurs came millions of years later! Look, try not to embarrass me when we go inside, Ok? Dad: Why are we going here if he already know everything?
LadyBlanc over 11 years ago
More proof that Calvin is capable of outstanding scholarship when properly motivated. If no one makes you do it, then it’s fun!
yow4zip Premium Member over 10 years ago
It’s fun, Dad! That’s why.
Xalder about 10 years ago
Embarrassment is in the eye of the beholder.
bmonk over 9 years ago
Most really deep scholars simply need to know what they study. It’s all in the motivation.
tdoug1 over 9 years ago
Too bad the other studies suffer!
Me2times. over 6 years ago
Calvin learns what interests him. I know somebody else like that
Comic Man X about 5 years ago
At the last panel, there is a dinosaur shadow behind them…
noissimbus over 3 years ago
Well, damn. Didn’t know that little fact about Tyrannosaurs.
Anton Sherwood over 1 year ago
When I was 10, my parents and I were in Madrid for two or three weeks. Mom and I spent much time at the Prado (art museum). At the time I knew as much about Greek myths as Calvin knows about dinosaurs, and she remarked many years later that I explained a number paintings.