Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 09, 2013

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    rentier  almost 12 years ago

    Yes, homework not done!

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    ratlum  almost 12 years ago

    Thats not a hope when you know Mom or Dad would drive you to school.A real hope would be no school to day.Mom fore got that all the teachers,took the day off for something or other.

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    in.amongst  almost 12 years ago

    Guilty of expecting a surprise!?!

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    margueritem  almost 12 years ago

    It does seem that way sometimes…

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    Destiny23  almost 12 years ago

    Just because you’re on the bus doesn’t mean it isn’t going to explode. And then you’d NEVER have to go to school again! (Might as well look on the bright side of being dead…)

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    KEA  almost 12 years ago

    Calvin needs a room of requirement.

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    Phapada  almost 12 years ago

    I can teach you a bout Thai language Calvin…o.k ?

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    hairless_joe Premium Member almost 12 years ago

    School bus exploding….bad taste

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    Frog-on-a-Log Premium Member almost 12 years ago

    Relax Calvin, you might have had to ride on this bus, in which case you would have got to school waaaayyyy too fast!

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    rpmurray  almost 12 years ago

    I always thought it would be great if I woke up one morning knowing everything so that I didn’t need to go to school anymore. And then during my teen years I did know everything and they still made me go to school.

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    Vonne Anton  almost 12 years ago

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    Vonne Anton  almost 12 years ago

    Surprised?

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    IndyMan  almost 12 years ago

    Never rode a school bus until last year of high school—always walked unless I was lucky to get a ride with Mrs. Russell, a neighbor but also a teacher at my grade school. Good ole’ Lincoln!!!

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    Hobbes Premium Member almost 12 years ago

    Click here: Peanuts (February 22, 1975)

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    Hobbes Premium Member almost 12 years ago

    Click here: Ziggy (February 18, 2003)

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    Hobbes Premium Member almost 12 years ago

    In the last panel, it looks like Calvin’s bus could say “Military School” on the side.

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    battle of plattsburgh  almost 12 years ago

    I’m surprised that they let him ride the bus.

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    rshive  almost 12 years ago

    Amen, Calvin. Amen.

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    bwalk7217 Premium Member almost 12 years ago

    Yell that today, and you get arrested.

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    dsom8  almost 12 years ago

    Remember the story about the statistician who smuggled a bomb onto his plane? He did it for safety because he figured the probability of there being two bombs on one plane was infinitesimal.

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    Chris Kenworthy  almost 12 years ago

    “The trouble with trying to make the right accident happen is that it won’t. That is not what `accident’ means. The accident that eventually occurred was not what he had planned at all.” – Douglas Adams, ‘Mostly Harmless’

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    Stephen Gilberg  almost 12 years ago

    He doesn’t really care about that. He just hates school.

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    belldee90  almost 12 years ago

    Nowadays that comment would be considered a terrorist threat. Not so loud, kid!

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    Puddleglum2  almost 12 years ago

    If the bus exploded now, Calvin would have a blast.I don’t think this is an amusing subject, though.

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    Number Three  almost 12 years ago

    True enough, Calvin. True enough.

    xxx

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    716PMedGuy  almost 12 years ago

    sure would be good if ‘work’ spontaneously exploded too!

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    KEStuck  almost 12 years ago

    @jadoo823It looks like the date reads 1990

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    tuslog64  almost 12 years ago

    This definition of Surprise! never made the dictionary:Surprise – Flatulance with a lump in it!

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    calvinsfriend110  almost 12 years ago

    I’m wondering if the school bus says Cleveland Elementary School, since this strip most likely takes place in Ohio.

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    cookies333  almost 12 years ago

    So true Calvin!

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    Toronto2  almost 12 years ago

    Calvin would have loved being in the movie “Speed” – especially the part when the cop was lowered under the bus on the wagon.

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    Gretchen's Mom  almost 12 years ago

    Might as well learn it early, Calvin: not every surprise in life is a GOOD one . . . unfortunately!

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    Hobbes Premium Member almost 12 years ago

    @jadoo823 and @KEStuck: Today’s strip is from January 6, 1993. These reruns are 20 years later, plus 3 days.

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    41keys  almost 12 years ago

    That’s a great observation Susan, it sure does look like Susie’s head.

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    thirdguy  almost 12 years ago

    A reality check, that almost no one will see. School busses, being powered by diesel fuel, do not explode. At least not without outside help.However, they do, on occasion, rarely but occasionally, burn.The fire usually starts in the front, in the engine compartment, and it takes a couple of minutes before it gets really bad, allowing enough time for all to exit the bus safely. In NY, the drivers conduct drills, and explain emergency procedures 3 times during every school year. I believe it is similar in other states. School bus drivers are required to attend two refresher courses yearly, and are shown every accident, and fire that happened in the entire country, during that year. Often new laws come out of accidents, if it is shown that there was a way to prevent it. That is why we stop at every RR crossing and open the doors.

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    pogosticks12  almost 12 years ago

    Just the way pessimists predict the future.

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    vwdualnomand  almost 12 years ago

    calvin, when you look back on these days. you would be nostalgic and wish you were 6 years old. no mortgage payments, no long commutes, no student loans, no car loans, concerns about employment, office gossip, feeding your family, concerns about the kids, modern life, the daily grind.

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    macman9877  almost 12 years ago

    I bet Calvin wished he had a wand and book of spells from hogwarts right about now.

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    Ray49FL  almost 12 years ago

    Life happens :)

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    rickray777  almost 12 years ago

    Calvin raises his hand in school…Miss Wormwood: “Yes, Calvin, you have a question?”Calvin: “Yeah, we should get desk computers for every student in the school! It would up attendance by 100%, and learning by 200%! Come on, how about it?”“Page 35, please.”(sulking) “Not to mention, student-teacher relations!”

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    rickray777  almost 12 years ago

    Why, yes it is.

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