Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 05, 2024

What’s the number for 911?…..

And then Dad hangs up the phone without answering his question

That right there is the $64 question.

Seems like a serious emergency.

Math emergency

Now, Dad will use up all the time on that pay phone lecturing Calvin about “building character”!

It’s the same as 15 + 3.

‘Smatter, doesn’t he have enough fingers?

Needs toes as well.

No Calvin, you don’t get to use a ‘lifeline’ (phone a friend).

117, you dolt.

You must show your work.

I don’t think he’s going to get the answer he wanted.

That kid…

Four. No… seventy-seven!

It’s eleventy-seven. If the problem had been 7 + 11, it would be seventy-leven. (Commutativity doesn’t apply if you don’t know what it is).

One of those rare moments where Dad shows concern for Calvin. Mom shows this much more than Dad does.

Calvin’s school has a pay phone? I didn’t see a pay phone at school until I got to middle school.

Come on dad tell me queeckly. It build character ya knows.

11 + 7 = eleventy seven

Answer: 11 + 7 = 7 + 11 per the substitution postulate: A quantity may be substituted for its equal in any process. And “may” is permission.

Dad looks very dis-organized at work

42, Calvin…..Always! 42…..

That’s funny!

But he has memorized dad’s work number.

Oh just tell him, dad.

A phone with a cord? In a school hallway? Those were the days.

‘Click’ ! ! !

That’s Cal. Go to the source.

Dad! This IS a emergency! It’s a matter of… Hello? Are you still there?

18. What a dumb.

Incredible method. Would recommend highly

………before cell phones!!!!

And deeper and deeper …

Phone a friend lifeline, ten years before that became a thing (assuming this is an ’89 reprint).

Calvin’s looks like he’s calling his life line to get an answer in “Who Want’s to be a Millionaire?” Game show

I don’t believe that his teacher will believe the bathroom excuse for the next question. Maybe he should have smuggled the whole test sheet out….

Try eleventy-seven.

11+7 is 18, Calvin, the age you will be by the time you get out of detention.

18.

Don’t let steve64 blow smoke up your butt. 11+7 is 117. Everybody knows that.

I dated a Postulant once, she decided not to be a Postulant anymore

This strip was originally printed in newspapers on my first birthday: November 7, 1989.

Is there me say is there a mathematician in the house?

Calvin needs the answer to get his job at 7-11 in the future.

Calvin can remember a 7-digit phone number but can’t add 7 and 11???

The answer is Seveneleven. The numbers are predicting where you will be working in adulthood.

why the awnser is 7/11!

“The age when you will be leaving home.”

It’s eleventy seven, of course. Everyone knows that!

Take the numbers in the one’s place and add them together. 1 + 7. Then add the ten’s place. What is the answer that you derived?

That outs him…. he is really a robot…. an evil one!

It’s Election Day. Please ensure you or someone you know can vote for the right candidate, because your vote matters. Of course, if you are 18 or older. Your vote can help determine the results of the election.

I also recommend keeping Project 2025 in mind while you vote. If you need any clarification, please let me know.

Although I’ve never done this, I feel compelled to say yep.

Cheating. He can run for president someday

Last time we checked in on Calvin and math homework, I believe he was outraged that after spending all of 10 minutes on it (and getting it wrong, of course), his dad insisted on going over it with him. Calvin refused to concede the point dad was trying to teach — that you can’t add two numbers together and come out with less than you started with.

Not much use calling dad here, Calvin — you should have gotten help from Stupendous Man.

A convenience/gas station chain famous for Big Gulps and Slurpees.

Haha… Calvin is such a dork.

Tell him it’s the same as 12+6 and hang up.

He could have just said “eleventy-seven”, and bought some arithmetic flash cards on the way home.