Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 09, 2014

Children’s minds were meant to be messed with.

the world is always so black and white to cats…

Hobbes has the right idea!

Just remember that your children are the ones who will decide where to place you when you are old and senile. Don’t mess them over or they might just get even later.

Love dad’s convoluted logic, especially in panel 9- full coor photos of a black-and-white world!

I hope Calvin doesn’t get shot on his future killing spree so the world can find out how his dad drove him to it.

I know a guy like Dad. He can explain anything—whether the explanation makes sense or not!!

Now we know where Calvin gets his imagination!

This has got to be one of Bill Watterson’s best comic strips. Too bad it wasn’t in color.

LOL! Gettin’ back some of you own, huh, Dad?

My favorite C&H. Make that my favorite comic of all time regardless of strip.

Mom, leave the dishes for a few minutes. They’ll still be there when the sunset has faded.

@NabuquduriuzhurOnce again, you attack science: science which has given so much and changed every aspect of our lives for the better. You yourself would have benefited countless times from the advances science has bought about in the world.

Gainjinrabbit summed it up quite nicely in his repy to your post..

you ended your comment by saying “And they will no doubt wonder why most “scientists” in government circles went from having Ph.Ds, M.S.s, B.S.s in their science fields in 1992 to having high school diplomas and liberal arts degrees, but still claiming to be “scientists.”

What was that about ? can you give any concrete examples of scientists doing that? do YOU even have a high school diploma ?

Dad has an answer for everything. In color, no less.

Agree with Bluram- This is one of the best C&H comics ever!Hey Djc- i saw that book in a store and thought it was the perfect oxymoron.

Dads are great liars.

Umm, chill mom, leave the dishes for awhile and go enjoy the sunset. Life is so short don’t sweat the little things in life.

I don’t think Calvin would be so nuts if his dad didn’t put these stupid stories in his head.

But you missed an important point. Yes, the Piltdown Man was a fraud. But the mechanism of Science allowed it to be found out. So not only do we know it is a fake but they are on the look out for the possibility of deception. The Scientific Method is self-correcting. No other field has that feature. It doesn’t care how long the old idea was around or the number or status of the people that believe it. If the evidence says it is wrong, it gets changed.

As for the contention that there are less PhDs out there calls for some justification. Although it lagged in the early ’00 it has since gone up to record levels.

Science is a process. Be grateful; it’s less dogma than religion.

Thanks for straightening that out.

BTW, this is my favorite Calvin and Hobbes of all time. I saved the original newspaper printing way back when.

@bluram: great comment

This is one of my favorites

the sarcasm is thick with his dad. Not helpful for Calvin but that is in part what creates Calvin for who he is or what his dad created of him

I detect a certain flaw in Dad’s logic, but am not quite sure just where……..

Calvin’s dad is strange. Haha

I actually knew a woman that thought there was no color in the world decades ago because of black and white films. It took three of us to convince her there was color and sited several examples of the fabulous paintings of old, the Egyptian tombs, antique scrolls and so on. She wasn’t the brightest crayon in the box.

NOW I know who Calvin takes after.

Proving and disproving scientific theory is, and should be difficult. It forces improved methods and prevents the body of knowledge from changing at a rate that makes it useless. Much of what turns out to be “wrong” serves as a base to advance before being superseded and later corrected. Those who embrace the “wrong” end up looking foolish though their conclusions were completely logical for the information they possessed.

Thing is, as one physicist blogged about last month, science is always in a state of flux. Only in math can you prove something conclusively, while in science you can see if an idea is reasonable (before someone 100 years later shows how flawed the idea is and creates a new knowledge gap).

The world was black and white until about 1960 and then we started with shades of gray. I got some “medicine” in 1968 and all of a sudden there was color everywhere.

one of the classic wattersons.

NSA intelligence, like Congressional intelligence,is an oxymoron. (with emphasis on the moron.)

Phew! I am glad they didn’t get into a discussion regarding shades of gray!.“Fifty Shades of Grey” that is…

I’m glad someone finally cleared that up. Thanks, dad.

Sounds like a plan to me!

xxx

Obviously, dad works as politician.

Watterson returns…http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/comic-riffs/wp/2014/11/07/new-bill-watterson-art-calvin-and-hobbes-creator-on-why-he-accepted-angouleme-honor-i-thought-the-whole-thing-was-bananas-qa/

This sounds eerily like my sister whenever I ask her something; I get a sarcastic and/or a really unhelpful answer.

And here we have an explanation for why evolution is called a “theory” and Intelligent Design isn’t. In the meantime, you have a constant stream of scientists who offer up solid proof against Intelligent Design (such as the Royal College of Surgeons), but are ignored and attacked until it all comes crashing down.

BTW, Piltdown Man was disproved using Fluorine analysis — C14 had nothing to do with it.

You’ve got it right, Hobbes! ;)

Hey, Dad. Unless you don’t mine swearing to a life of celibacy, you should probably try to help Mom with the dishes rather than mess with Calvin’s head.

I read some of the comments.. its hard to believe how much humor has drained out from our black and white world… god! (-_-)

Probably my most favorite C&H ever. And it’s true!!