Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 24, 2022

Did Calvin just describe dyslexia?

Or you could stop making excuses?

He needs to work on his excuses

What a GREAT imagination….. Watterson has.

If you can’t dazzle them with your brilliance, baffle them with your bull, er, whatever.

“One time I tackled a guy so hard, his tattoos fell off.” -Dick Butkus

He can’t bother to study, but “extemporaneous” he knows?

Well, it was pretty clever and imaginative on his part. I’ll give him that. But he must have known in the back of his 6 year old mind the teacher wasn’t gonna fall for that one…..

Calvin should pass because of his excellent vocabulary.

“I couldn’t read it because my parents forgot to pay the gravity bill.”

I guess Calvin has already used the dog, errr Hobbes, ate his history book and all of his homework…..

If he lives that long, he would be a great politician, or a used car salesman.

The killer was that he couldn’t explain how the letters got back onto the page by themselves.

Yeah. Mine never worked either. Missed the prize for fiction too.

It’s too early, I had to look that up……

Isn’t this school’s curriculum rather too deep for first grade??

I assume it isn’t a class for gifted children.

Calvin and Agnes should team up; they’re quite a pair!!

The same thing happened to my copy of “Naked Lunch”

I hate it when that happens. :(

Cal should be given extra points for sheer imagination, though…! :D

How does a 6-year old know how to pronounce ‘extemporaneous’ ???

Actually saw that happen once. One of the first mainframe laser printers had just been delivered and the hardware guys hadn’t turned the set the fuser correctly. When you opened a listing all the characters fell off the top page. If you laid your hand or arm on the bottom page the print lifted when you took it off.

Calvin has never let schooling interfere with his learning…

I had that same problem with my math books.

At the end of first grade a student should have a reading vocabulary of 100 words.

Sometimes it’s way more work to come up with an excuse than it is to do the work.

it’s actually a really good excuse- showing imagination, the problem is since it only happened to his book….

I love his word usage. Excellent use of a dictionary/ thesaurus!

That’s right Cal… Less extemporaneous, more exemplareneous… or something.

As proof, Calvin scooped up those letters and brought them to class for show and tell

Present day and age, America has High School Seniors that would not understand anything that Calvin just said. Calvin used 5 three syllable words in his narrative.

Can you imagine what kind of excuses Calvin would have come up with dealing with remote learning? Of course, with his tendencies, I’m not sure the school servers, or even the internet as a whole, would have survived the experience.

Well, gibberish is a good choice of words for your explanation.

I has a similar problem. I was reading email on an old Apple II, when all of a sudden, the words on the screen fell to the bottom of the screen.

You must come better in improvisation, Calvin!

If I sent a kid to the office for not doing their homework, my entire classroom would be empty.

That must be one busy principle if students are sent there for not doing their homework

Maybe if Miss Wormwood taught history at an actual first grade curriculum (the way she does with English and math), it wouldn’t be as hard on Calvin (though of course, Calvin does have trouble with first-grade arithmetic anyways).

He really needs to handle books more carefully. :)

My mother taught me the alphabet. Unfortunately, since she was a classical piano player, she taught me the alphabet went A through G and then started all over again with A.

Just imagine Agnes and Calvin in the same school….

I am impressed with his words.

It’s obvious Calvin is too smart for this grade level and bored. Anyone using the word extemporaneous is to smart for first grade.

Does Calvin have a reserved space in the principal’s office, like Tim The Tool Man’s reserved space in the emergency room?

Calvin has an unusually broad vocabulary for a six-year-old.

You’re fine.

Now THAT is a fifty cent word.

I think Calvin just told the teacher that he had dyslexia..

Letters moving off a book reminds me of a Winnie the Pooh cartoon, complete with a talking tiger.

Oh poor Calvin, don’t you HATE when that happens?

If “Carvin” had Asian parents:

Dad: “You doctor yet? Why you no doctor yet?!”

Again Calvin being very smart and very dumb.

That and excuses really need to make sense.