Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 22, 2010

Good analogy, Calvin.

But at least you have won.

Schooltime will not end for a long, long time, Calvin!

An inch isn’t anything. Not even enough to make a good snowball to throw at Susie.

it is if you put a rock in it.

Calvin, now it can even get worse: if it snows another 6 inch in the next hours you’ll probably have to stay at school after your class.

Lio’s Dad would do it differently.

Why does the school bus look like the one prisoners are ferried in, in the movie Shawshank Redemption?

Calvin seems to be in the same boat as the prisoners… School is jail for Calvin and the bus takes him there!!

“Maybe the school buses all froze up! Maybe the principal can’t get out of his driveway!” You’re telling tales out of school, Calvin, but getting out of school is the ‘principal’ thing! Hobbes more likely would tell ‘tails’ out of school.

Calvin wants more snow (in panel one). I ‘shutter’ to think of it!

Sorry Calvin, seeing that Mr Watterson decided not to continue with C & H, you are going to be stuck going to school for the rest of your life!

I feer too, Calvin will go to school for the rest of his life!

As innovative as Calvin is I’m sure he’ll figure out something to close the school and come back home. Perhaps he can help a water pipe freeze and break.

Some football coach (Navy?) once said, “A tie is like kissing your sister.” He should’ve added, “But a loss is like kissing your brother.”

One inch of snow is like a kiss on the forehead.

Puddleglum2: I agree, I just want the snow to leave and not come back until next December. :)

bigCandHfan: I studied the strip after your comment on the school bus. It looks like all the buses I’ve rode on except the Greyhound Lines and the city line of buses. You’ve spiked my curiousity, what do your school buses look like?

That must really suck for a first grader.

Technology - I get a school closing text message on my phone. One of the greatest joys of being a father is getting to go into my daughters room, wake her up and tell her there is no school!

At Calvin’s age - so true.

In SC- disaster!

Calvinator, I must be a sadist. One of my secret joys is to go into my sons’ room and tell them there’s school despite the snow.

What? At six years old, as at every other time, I LOVED going to school (Calvin’s personality, Susie’s motivation). But admittedly, I also liked getting off from school due to snow days. It was slogging through March gales, April showers and other muck on foot to elementary school that I hated.

Weather for school, not whether for school. :)

Around here an inch means school closed for two days.

Come to Montana, Calvin!!! You’ll hit the jackpot… unfortunately, you may STILL have to go to school (these folks are real troopers!!)

I’m with you Calvin.

Calvin is lucky–when I went to school, I(along with most of my classmates had to walk. My walk was about a mile regardless of the weather except when we had ice storms and the power was off. Very seldom did we get enough snow for the ‘power’s at be’ to close the school.

Reality continues to ruin my life. – Bill Watterson

Only an inch of snow is totally crushing. Where I grew up, you wouldn’t even know it had snowed by the time school was out. Not even any slush left.

But in the lottery, you had to shell out more than 10 cents. Did he pay someone to “make” it snow?

BC13, maybe he did the same sort of snow dance he did when he “made” it rain. At least this time it “worked” a little better.

sorry calvin,maybe monday there will be enough snow so you can get a snow day.

when i lived in orange county n.y. an inch of snow would mean a 2 hour delay, 3” would be enough for a snow day. but our town was all hills and the buses couldn’t safely transport the kids it also meant i’d have a day off too

@Andy - “Calvin, now it can even get worse: if it snows another 6 inch in the next hours you’ll probably have to stay at school after your class.”

If that happened, I bet the teacher would manage to take him home somehow, no teacher can stand more than six hours of Calvin

“Snow Day” which is a statement used to indicate the school is closed on account of too much snow is a “Misnomer” The law says you have to be in school so many hours/ days and having a so called snow day only means you will have a make-up school day later in the year. But OH what a fun misnomer it is!

Someday he’ll be boasting about how he had to walk through 6 feet of snow to get to school everyday.

But I lived in North Dakota and really had to. Really.

Yeah, 10c after spending $20 on tickets……

i lived in Manitoba,, had a big snowfall once,, still had to go to school even though the buses were canceled,, why? parents had snowmobiles! and offered rides to anyone else along the route to have their child picked up,, boy i wasn’t liked that day!

Actually we teachers love when the schools are closed too, especially if we have “Calvins” in our classes.

A snow day without the Calvins is like a day with sunshine?

Little did calvin know the snow was actually hiding: http://marvel.com/images/597754./from/content.story.9989/viewmode/fullsize/

the older school busses looked lijke that. newer models are all flat in front.

Many private groups and gov’t agencies purchase form the same agencies, so yes the school bus would look the same.

Bluebird was one of the companies.

U asked for snow and God gave it to u

u should have added 3 feet

City mouse, country mouse…

When I was a kid, a snow day meant that we had to stay home and work the farm all day. In the snow and cold. And Dad never took recess. It was up at dawn, work through till lunch and then back at it till sundown. And we knew better than to complain. We just looked forward to being back in that nice warm classroom, pushing a light little pencil around rather than a shovel, rake or pitchfork.

Country mice hate snow days.

was a good day to get extra work done on the farm. Mom’s home cookin’ instead of school whatever they called. Made a fella’ feel more into it. Never left!

Haha count yourself lucky Calvin. Where I live we have had a snow week! The snow in my backyard comes up to my chest. It’s insane. There is such a thing as too much free time.

Fate has a funny way of playing tricks on our poor little Calvin.

By that calculation, a million dollar lottery win would equal about 830 foot deep snow.

I loved school when I was a kid. I even VOLUNTEERED to stay after school and pound the chalkboard erasers.

No buses winter meant we could use skis new snow meant we traded places in front to make a new track We did not enjoy new snow very much

I cut out paper snowflakes and put them on the window in tribute to the snow god to encourage snowfall.

Look on the bright side, Calvin. Your chances are better with the inch of snow than your chances of winning anything in the lottery. Take the inch of snow and be happy that you won.

Poor Calvin, trapped into repeating all the disappointments. I feel Calvin’s entrapment in the time warp will make him a better man, should he escape the warp.

@bandz, a mob boss once said his numbers game was much better than any state lottery. Most lotteries seem to have about a 45% payout (they pay 45 cents for every dollar they take in), and the IRS knows about the big winnings, so you have to pay taxes. With the mob, the payout was more like 80%, and no taxes to pay…

Just enjoy it while you can, Calvin!

vardeman62,

Macon, GA?

Unless you live in the south

He’s right on the money, and he’s soooooooooooo cute in his little pajamas.

Has anyone ever tried to pay a $100 or more debt using one dollar bills? One at a time?

…and it will be all melted by the time you get out of school…

Calvin needs to get together with Alice Otterloup of Cul de Sac. They could do a snow dance together.

They sometimes close schools in New Mexico if it snows only an inch or two. If they don’t close it they delay it 2 hours. Calvin should move to New Mexico.

I love Calvin’s expression in the first panel, where he’s pressing his hands and nose up against the window.

:)

Ooh, that mischevios mother nature. Lol, I know that when Calvin asks for snow he asks God, but still……

Ah, the infinite wisdom of a first-grader. :)

Sorry, Calvin. School only gets cancelled rarely.

Poor Calvin an inch of snow is like practically up to his knees

I always wonder if Calvin’s mom ever thinks about Calvin’s life if the school bus hits a big patch of black ice

Black ice is a common danger on the road and can cause major accidents