Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 03, 2014
Transcript:
Calvin: "Hi, mom. Can I look at your wallet for a few minutes? I, uh, want to see something" Mom: "Hold on. Did you make your bed like I asked you?" Calvin: "I'm working on it" Mom: "As I recall, your bed is in your room" Calvin: "I'm inventing a robot to make the bed, but I need a grant. Can I have $50?" Hobbes: "What'd she say? Did you get the money?" Calvin: "Boy, when we're the cover story of popular mechanics, I'll have some choice words to say about family encouragement"
BE THIS GUY over 10 years ago
Offer your Mom a percentage of the company, maybe then she will give you the money.
ORMouseworks over 10 years ago
LOL! Curses, foiled again! ;)
rshive over 10 years ago
Grant money doesn’t’ grow on trees. It grows in wallets.
micromite over 10 years ago
My mum never kept money in her wallet when I was around.
Zero-Gabriel over 10 years ago
“Mom is from Missouri.”
A lot of people seem to hate Missouri…Why is that…??
moronbis over 10 years ago
I am sure he had similar feelings for his dad as well. Can’t remember that strip.
thirdguy over 10 years ago
Love Moms’ blank stare in frame 3. Like she doesn’t know whether to laugh or throw a fit. I think the latter.
thirdguy over 10 years ago
you shouldn’t talk about yourself that way.
Hobbes Premium Member over 10 years ago
Calvin, like most kids, takes his parents’ money for granted.
Click here: Calvin and Hobbes (February 19, 1992)Click here: Ziggy (August 28, 2003)Click here: Pearls Before Swine (February 25, 2011)(Sydney Harris)vwdualnomand over 10 years ago
cat’s in the cradle.
melissalomax1313 creator over 10 years ago
‘Choice words’ ha-ha!! He’s so great.
Radical_Knight over 10 years ago
I’m still waiting for the affordable flying-car, they said in (I believe) Oct ‘65, would be in most everyone’s garage by 1997.
watmiwori over 10 years ago
Mom — ever the sceptic….
tuslog64 over 10 years ago
Here in western Illinois we have a long list of Missouri jokes.And they give us plenty of material to work with!1. Only recently did they take a law off the books that required an operator of a tractor to place planks on a bridge before crossing. (Goes back to when tractors had steel lug wheels – decades ago!)2. Until a few years ago, it was legal to shoot an LDS member! (Though, I suspect that if someone had used this as defence, a jury would have still convicted)
dflak over 10 years ago
Calvin, Calvin, you have to come to her with a 1.579 page proposal that you know she won’t have time to read.
hippogriff over 10 years ago
The bed-making robot has already been invented. It is called a sleeping bag. Just get out, roll it up, and stuff it in your pack.
neverenoughgold over 10 years ago
“Mom is from Missouri.”.No, Miss is from Missouri; Mom is from Momtana…
neverenoughgold over 10 years ago
“Instead of a grant, how about a start up? He could start by making his bed up.”.Very good! LOL…
xall2h1 over 10 years ago
20% plz
Hobbes Premium Member over 10 years ago
@Tacopielvr: It’s too bad that people come to GoComics for humor and relaxation, and then often end up arguing over highly emotional issues. I guess there’s sometimes a fine line between comedy and tragedy.
Susie Derkins D: over 10 years ago
Told ya.
Daniel Quilp over 10 years ago
Willard Duncan Vandiver (1854–1932) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Missouri. He is popularly credited with the authorship of the famous expression: “I’m from Missouri, you’ve got to show me,” which led to the state’s famous nickname: “The Show Me State”.1 In an 1899 speech, he declared, “I come from a state that raises corn and cotton, cockleburs and Democrats, and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I’m from Missouri, and you have got to show me.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_Duncan_Vandiver
Meh~tdology, fka Pepelaputr over 10 years ago
Hey, Calvin , invent Kick-Starter first!
Hobbes Premium Member over 10 years ago
@rgcviper: Ah, yes, the old mini-snow-goon device….. Tried and true….. Always good for a laugh….. I’ve seen it many times…..