Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 27, 2014

Too late, you’re stuck with him for another 12 years.

No simplifying there! Calvin is way to complicated for that! ;)

Dad ponders boarding school, mom considers losing him at the supermarket

MayKitten, pray tell me what PITA stands for…(?)

…or might it be “Pesky Infant To Army” ?

PITA - pain in the a-.

That way is more common but both arrangements are equally correct.

If you feel like you’ve got too much money, having a kid ‘simplifies’ that one enormously, surely? Simplify your excess income into a college account, and then if there’s any more, a deposit for their first house so that you can help them out of the nest in due course.

Just like the good old days.

…………………………Click here: Calvin and Hobbes (September 19, 1992)Click here: Ziggy (July 1, 2011)Click here: Peanuts (December 2, 1980)Click here: Pearls Before Swine (August 17, 2013)

Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.— Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)

Here is a quotation for Calvin’s parents to think about today:It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.— Henry David Thoreau

When my son was small we used to tell him we were going to sell him for medical experiments. It worked so well, he now tells his children the same thing.

I’ll bet that a lot of young just marrieds either delayed or cancelled plans to have children during Calvin’s heyday.

Hey. We can cash in the kid. Admittedly, nor for much, with his reputation, but for medical research, perhaps. Or maybe some pirates need a galley slave.

Didn’t realize there were different scales for Intelligence Quotients.

Well, in today’s strip, Mom and Dad gotta start somewhere…

rotfl!!! I love this strip!

“Mystery of the missing post: I accidentally deleted it.”-———————————————-Too bad your IQ isn’t 190 — then you might not have made the mistake.

One of my late kitties managed to get my PC to perform all kinds of gymnastics (I didn’t know it could talk!) just by laying on it.It would have been funnier if it hadn’t been the morning I needed to Google some physical symptoms I was having. (Turns out I was going into anaphylactic shock.)I miss that kittie.

@riotta rigotta

Hopefully, they will get 4 years off if he goes to college before he moves back home.

The parents never seem to get peace and quiet.

You got your IQ measured at three…, and it was 188… Hem, could you please tell us how was it measured? According to what standard? Following what methodology?

Wow, so many people thinking they want to be rid of Calvin. I never got that from this strip. It always seemed they longed for the simplicity of childhood. That they wished life was that simple again.

It’s fairly genius in how it’s really not definite at all what his parents are thinking. The reader has to inject themselves into it.

Y’all a buncha meanies! ;p

Re the comic: That would do it…

Well … that was Obvious … maybe Thoreau ’s bible