Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for April 15, 2011

Such a cynic…

That’s the burnt part of life Calvin…….

Beneath? Right on top, I’d say!

I don’t know what I find more amusing (or more ingenious), the dialogue or the facial expressions. Calvin’s in panel 2 should be studied by every wannabe cartoonist there is.

love the expressions in the 2nd and 4th panels!! lolz

@marg, who is the one cynic?

Not for a kid named Mud anyway.

Good Morning, Marg, Mike & ♠Lonewolf♠!

Good Morning, folks. I have been following your comments for over a year now and enjoy them as much as the comic strip. I live in South Africa so we are at the beginning of some cooler weather now. Our time is about 5 or 6 hours ahead of the USA.

Calvin: next time, turn the toast around.

Would that ALL of life’s little annoyances could be smoothed away so easily

If I ate steak every day, I wouldn’t have to use toast to check the smoke alarm in the morning.

Cheap cheap :)

Should have turned it around so the other side got toasted too

My toaster does that. Probably my fault for buying a $10 toaster.

With all the challenges Calvin presents, I can understand why dad can’t respond seriously when Calvin whines over the state of the toast. I speak from experience.

I need to adopt Dad’s larger perspective.

@ Dogsniff: Here, here!

and yet..somehow..life goes on…

I had a supervisor once who encapsulated that philosophy with a one word answer to employees griping about nuisances that were bugging them: (said in a low key tone)

wah

Very observant Calvin!

We have a toaster that will toast to any possible variance one could want. I guess I have come up in the world. :-)

Sounds like there is an easy workaround for that toaster’s problem: turn the toast around before pushing the button the 2nd time.

I would always rather keep using something and not buy new when there is an easy workaround. It irritates me no end when family members keep refusing to turn the toast around, wasting bread, and complaining about the toaster.

Calvin that’s why there are settings on it…..light…..dark.

@JazzyBella, what do you do with a fellow who gets upset when people leave the communal toaster set too dark after they’re done?

Yes–same thing we did. We told him that the person making the toast should check the setting he wants.

The last three toasters I’ve had toast darker on one side of the bread than the other. I’ve decided they are now programmed to do that.

PS: grammar nitpick - it’s ‘hear, hear’, not ‘here here’. It means I hear what you are saying and approve.

Well, you know your dad, Calvin. His idea of a vacation is camping out in the woods so he doesn’t have to spring for a motel and pool.

Hey! one side black, and one side white– what do you want? Thats real integrated bread!

Just get use to that kind of toast. Most married men have.

My spell check dose this to me too here hear .

Once you eat the toast what matter is it as to which side is “over toasted”??

I agree with JoanHelen. Sometimes the comments are funnier and more interesting than the comic.

Halfbakened!

Calvin thinks he deserves the ‘most from his toast’!!!

Otherwise, he gets all burnt over it…

Eat it raw and get the hydrogen energy as well as the carbon.

I hate it, when it hits the kitchen floor buttered side down..

If you put enough peanut butter ‘n stuff on the burnt side it’ll taste pretty good. The burnt stuff will just add a little piquant flavor….

calvin: need chocloate covered sugar bombs

My husband and I don’t own a toaster and never have. Every toaster oven we’ve ever had worked just fine in that department and all had/has a “Light”, “Medium” and “Dark” setting on it, ensuring the perfect hue of toast every time.

Now, regarding Calvin …

Dad should have told him the same thing my mother use to tell me when I was a kid and our cheap, crappy toaster did the exact same thing to our bread: just take a knife and gently scrape off the burned stuff and underneath it will still be a pretty good-tasting piece of toast. And you know what? She was right! Especially after I got done spreading a little bit of peanut butter and jelly on top of it!!!

It’s The Winter of Our Discontent, Calvin. Dad won’t spring for a new toaster, now, but maybe he’ll buy one this summer, unless he is skeptical and doesn’t fall for it.

Calvin’s dad shows a wonderful karma. Toaster is classified under “stuff”. Who needs more stuff, anyway? Confucius says: Have little and gain. Have much and be confused. (Clear-headed) Peggy in Durham

ohh poor Calvin!!!may be you should order some pizza :) :)

All toasters do exactly the same thing. I hate having to stand guard over my toaster so the bread doesn’t burn. The BEST toast is made over a campfire, although it does take a bit longer; gathering wood, starting the fire; letting it burn down to coals and then turning the bread over and over to make sure it all gets nice and brown, crust to crust: Perfection!

@cosman, the cosmos really is out to get you–some years back they proved the Toast Corollary to Murphy’s Law, and the final formula is based on fundamental constants of the universe…