Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 17, 2014

As Lisa Simpson paraphrased Samuel Johnson:“Prayer. The last refuge of a scoundrel.”

Here’s hoping, Calvin! ;)

i hope too my boy

Impending doom frequently has that effect. And knowing Calvin,Tirebiter is probably right.

There are no atheists in the trenches.

Now I lay me down to sleep…… May it snow and may it sleet.

If there’s a snow day, he’ll forget all about the homework and go out and play in it. Ask me how I know this.

When I was a kid there was no better feeling than lying in bed, hearing snow sift against the windows, and knowing school would be cancelled. I loved to learn, loved to read, just hated the school I was in. Most of my teachers made Miss Wormwood look sweet and friendly.

I am guessing you are a Firesign Theatre fan?

A religious attack?

Calvin maybe should have finished his homework quietly instead of waking Dad. He has a short attention span sometimes.

Harry Morgan did say it on an episode of MASH, when he played a wacko general (before he came on the show as Colonel Potter). While reviewing the troops, he barked it at Father Mulcahy, whose mild reply was simply, “I’ve heard that, General.” The expression appears to have originated around WWII, though Wikipedia lists its origins as uncertain.

A timely strip. 6 inches here in VA. God answers prayer, Calvin!

7 inches, Charles Town, WV

There are no atheists in the classroom. I enjoy how people who don’t believe in God feel the need to put down those who do, as if they’re reassuring themselves that they might be making the right choice.

Calvin don’t have bed-head. Now that I think about it, at his age I didn’t comb my hair either. Calvin’s spike-look is permanent, unless it’s wet. And it never gets long; lucky kid!

Put on some green Calvin, you might bring the Luck O The Irish around you.Happy St. Patrick’s Day everyone.

That is a quote from Erich Marie Remarque. It means that ff you are in the trenches under fire, you are praying. Being religious doesn’t mean that you are in a hurry to go to heaven.

1 – Are you representing the estate of Samuel Johnson?2 – When are the only times Bart and Calvin pray? “Bart Gets an F” aired on October 11, 1990, 3½ years before this strip was published,Bart kept his promise to God – after being reminded by that little agnostic, Lisa – and actually spent the snow day studying for a history test.

I agree. There are things I need to get done but leave it to the next day. The next day turns into a month,

everyone wants to go to heaven, but no one wants to die.

Kind of like when the Clintons used to attend church.

Gawd can’t intervene, that would interfere with your free will, Calvin.By that I means, you’re skoow’d!

Just look at those EYES in the last panel …

Only one Tirebiter that I know of and he was a spy and girl delighter and went to More Science High School.