Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 26, 2024

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    BE THIS GUY  10 months ago

    More entertaining than the text books.

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    JïllDérs(TOMGF)  10 months ago

    I wonder why Calvin doesn’t try at school. If he has the capability to memorize historical events and other things, then he should have the ability to try at school. But his imagination is too big to match up with his learning abilities for him to be successful. How sad. Why do they teach facts if all students do is just memorize them?Also where is Plymouth Rock?

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    codycab  10 months ago

    Ugh! More history?! I keep hearing about bad stuff happening a long time ago and we’re supposed to be like therapists who have to listen to past problems. Sorry. I’ve heard enough in my lifetime and have little sympathy.

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    M2MM  10 months ago

    I don’t doubt it! LOL

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    Concretionist  10 months ago

    It’s really not fair of Watterson to take as much time as he needs to come up with a quip that the rest of us have to do in real time.

    But he sure does it well!

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    snsurone76  10 months ago

    The real Plymouth Rock has eroded so much that it’s just about the size of a pebble!

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    Dr. Quatermass  10 months ago

    Dang, he’s doing the Karnak the Magnificent schtick all wrong!

    BTW, may a crazed diamond cutter mount your sister.

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    BigDaveGlass  10 months ago

    I don’t blame them…….

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    David_the_CAD  10 months ago

    And they accuse Calvin of not having any ambitions.

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    Jayalexander  10 months ago

    What’s under Plymoth Rock is more intersting a Fury?, Duster?

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    sandpiper  10 months ago

    For Cal, tests are just his chosen way to get attention. Negative is just as good a positive and easier to earn.

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    Calvinist1966  10 months ago

    As I have said before, I liked to loan my Calvin and Hobbes book collections to my two nephews. My oldest nephew – who celebrated his forty-fifth birthday exactly two weeks ago today – named this one as a particular favourite and so did my Dad.

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    saylorgirl  10 months ago

    I’m sure they really get a kick out of your answers, Calvin.

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    Purple People Eater  10 months ago

    World history according to high school and college students:

    Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies, and they all wrote in hydraulics. The Egyptians built the pyramids in the shape of a huge triangular cube.

    The Greeks were a highly sculptured people, and without them we wouldn’t have any history. They invented three kinds of columns – Corinthian, Ironic, and Dorc – and built the Apocalypse.

    In the Olympic Games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled the biscuits, and threw the Java. The government of Athens was democratic because people took the law into their own hands.

    Eventually, the Romans conquered the Greeks. History calls people Romans because they never stayed in one place for very long. The Ides of March murdered Caesar because they thought he was going to be made king. Dying, he gasped “Tee hee, Brutus”.

    In the Middle Ages, the Magna Carta provided that no free man should be hanged twice for the same offense. In the Renaissance, Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100-foot clipper.

    Abraham Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address while traveling from Washington to Gettysburg on the back of an envelope. He also freed the slaves by signing the emasculation proclamation. On the night of April 14, 1865, Lincoln went to the theater and got shot in his seat by one of the actors in a moving picture show. The believed assinator was John Wilkes Booth, a supposedly insane actor. This ruined Booths career.

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    Mediatech  10 months ago

    There is a town called Plymouth, that is in Rock County, Wisconsin.

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    Jaddis  10 months ago

    The location of Plymouth Rock is easy: Latitude: 41.9584 Longitude: -70.6673.

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    hmroehrig18  10 months ago

    Führer or Fueher if you don’t have umlauts.

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    KennethPrice2  10 months ago

    At 72, I remember the names Balboa, De Soto, Cortez and Pizaro, but I don’t remember who they murdered, conquered, or where they explored.

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    dlkrueger33  10 months ago

    Plymouth Rock was taken by the Nazis and hidden along with the Amber Room.

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    Count Olaf Premium Member 10 months ago

    They have art galleries, too, for kids who draw pictures on their test papers. Tru Dat. Told to The Count by a friend.

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    tremaine53  10 months ago

    It’s a shame that the Chrysler Corporation never produced a model called the Plymouth Rock.

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    'IndyMan'  10 months ago

    Calvin, is only trying to cover up the fact that he has absolutely no idea where ‘Plymouth Rock’ is let alone what its significance is in history !! ! ! !

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    gantech  10 months ago

    And many of Calvin’s teachers left the profession and went on to become sketch writers for SNL.

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    bbenoit  10 months ago

    A: Plymouth.

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    Just-me  10 months ago

    Calvin sounds like he’s giving a press briefing.

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    I was FRAMED!!!!!!  10 months ago

    …..but, if I were to hazard a guess, you may not go wrong by checking in New England………

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    Prof. Mementomori's Chamber of Methane Horrors  10 months ago

    The folks in Human Resources are all a-tremble waiting to read your job applications.

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    tqnism  10 months ago

    I think Calvin, and kids like Calvin, learn more when fighting against the school system than when cooperating with it. Opposition and even hatred of school keep them mentally active and engaged, allowing them to learn about things they are truly interested in.

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    KageKat  10 months ago

    You are not M, Calvin.

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    Redd Panda  10 months ago

    When did the pilgrims land in Plymouth?

    Just about lunch time.

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    I'm Sad  10 months ago

    I wish I was this smart when I was his age.

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    bloodykate  10 months ago

    LOL

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    jagedlo  10 months ago

    Calvin the creative writer…

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    flagmichael  10 months ago

    In tutoring a grandson for the four tests for the GED, I have been impressed how much better they are in real life than the school equivalents I experienced. The language and mathematics tests are appropriately titled “Reasoning through Language Arts” and “Reasoning through Mathematics.” The other two, Social Studies (includes government) and Science are better focused than the classes I had in school.

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    uniquename  10 months ago

    The next question is, “What color is George Washington’s white horse?”

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    Solomon J. Behala Premium Member 10 months ago

    That was my goal in high school and college. Amuse an “A” out of them!

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    French Persons Premium Member 10 months ago

    Calvin may not be sure about Plymouth Rock, however in his head there are rocks!

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    Diane Lee Premium Member 10 months ago

    I realized why facts need to be taught when Trump devotees were asked what caused the Civil War and the response was a blank stare. Nikki Haley didn’t do much better. Coming to a logical conclusion about anything without the facts you should have learned in school is like trying to bake a cake with no ingredients.

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    Drbarb71 Premium Member 10 months ago

    This is what happens when a gifted child is not challenged at his level. He has an old biddy of a teacher who teaches rote and boring facts when she could be pushing him to reach his potential by giving him lessons that teach the facts in creative ways. How about having him illustrate a scene from that era? If he adds Spaceman Spiff, so what as long as the other elements, including dates, are included.

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    g04922  10 months ago

    Yeah… Calvin’s imaginative tests and papers are probably the best the faculty have ever seen. He has the makings of a great fantasy novelist.

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    djtenltd  10 months ago

    Whatever gave you that impression, Calvin??

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    zarilla  10 months ago

    I’ve been to Plymouth Rock. You get there and there is a sign and you find like a hole in the ground and look down and there’s this insignificant looking rock. But, it’s Plymouth Rock!

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    BiggerNate91  10 months ago

    At least he’s giving them great entertainment.

    Both the teachers and us!

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    wiley207  10 months ago

    Heh, wouldn’t surprise me if Calvin actually knows the answer but is just messing with Miss Wormwood there.

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    mistercatworks  10 months ago

    Calvin is lucky they don’t come right into the classroom to point and laugh. :)

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    Absolutely true, that and a whole lot more, been there…

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    willie_mctell  10 months ago

    On the advice of counsel…

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    petermerck  10 months ago

    On the ground.

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    mindjob  10 months ago

    That is good reading for the teacher’s lounge, since they are fresh out of “knock, knock” jokes

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    eced52  10 months ago

    Are they wearing tin foil hats when they are reading them?

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    circleM  10 months ago

    In these days they would be popular on Instagram or X.

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    Patriot Dissenter   10 months ago

    Chris Wray

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    meowlin  10 months ago

    That line is fun to use with telemarketers too.

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    Arghhgarrr Premium Member 10 months ago

    Calvin clearly won’t pass the Grant’s tomb test.

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    Otis Rufus Driftwood  10 months ago

    And maybe the district psychiatrist’s office.

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    hagarthehorrible  10 months ago

    Not only the teachers lounge but its impact is also felt across the globe.

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    n00b  29 days ago

    i feel this kid

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