Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 20, 2015

Be careful, Calvin. If it flies into the Peanuts

strip, it will be devoured by the kite eating tree.

Charlie Brown sets kites free a different way.

My brothers and I took my nephews kite flying. The youngest one — who may have been 3 or 4 at the time — decided to let the kite go to see how far it would fly. My brother managed to chase it down. He then tied the string to a full water bottle to make sure it didn’t happen again.

if a free kite falls in the middle of the woods, does it make a sound?

If you love something, set it free. Calvin you old hippie.

Freeeeeeeeeeeeee!Free, Free, set them free…..Thank God, I’m free at last….

Take that, Charlie Brown!

The zen of kite flying. Charlie Brown needed that lesson.

So does Charlie Brown!

Kites should not be held in captivity

The tree will keep it for him

Ah yes, another gem from Calvin. I wish there were way to thank Bill Watterson for the joy he brings to my life. From the sighs of the Thoughtful Insights through the many Hearty Chuckles to the downright outbursts of Laughing.Doug

What a coincidence-so do I!

Oops wrong kite…

I tie my kites to Ole’ McDonalds fence post .

Works with balloons, too.

When I was a kid, kites were 10 cents and they looked pretty much like the Charlie Brown version. Two balsa wood sticks and a diamond shaped piece of paper. You had to provide your own tail.

We didn’t have to run to launch them. All we had to do was stand there on the boardwalk at the beach in the evening. There was always a strong onshore breeze.

Use to make my own 3 stick kites using large wrapping paper and write on them “If found contact me at *******, 5 cent reward for return”.

The kite has now started it’s own adventure.

xxx

I see Calvin is following in Charlie Browns footsteps.

I would have expected Calvin to seek out a kite-eating tree just to watch the carnage !

In case you were wondering about the noodle incident here you go:Calvin was the apparent perpetrator, and it must have involved noodles. ObviouslyIt happened at school. Miss Wormwood evidently knows about it, and may have even been a witness to the incident taking place. This is revealed in a strip where Calvin’s mother goes to a parent-teacher conference with Miss Wormwood, causing Calvin to panic when she gets home, asking her “She told you about the noodles, didn’t she?!” Calvin’s mother replies with a suspicious “What noodles?”, but does not press the issue. Calvin also claims he was “Framed”, which might indicate other people saw the incedent.Calvin never told his parents about the incident. Apparently, Miss Wormwood and Principal Spittle never told Calvin’s parents either.It happened a long time ago, (as revealed in a fantasy strip where Calvin is imagining Santa Claus and one of his elves reviewing his “case” to determine if Calvin has been good or bad that year) and therefore must have been a very serious incident for it to still be remembered now. The fact that Hobbes repeatedly brings it up (as did Santa Claus in Calvin’s imagination once), seems to imply the memory still haunts Calvin to this day.3Although it happened a while ago, in a strip when Calvin was mailing a letter to Santa, he said that he had been extremely good this year, to which Hobbes replies “What about the Noodle Incident?” revealing that the incident may have happened that year. However, because the strip ran over a 10 year timeline, yet Calvin remained 6 years old and inexplicably returned to the 1st grade every fall, the Noodle incident could have happened at any time.It is not exactly stated one way or the other, but it seems to be implied that Calvin was caught or framed, therefore his explanation was not believed (though this could simply be Calvin trying to avoid trouble). To try and prove innocence, Calvin apparently thought of a cover story, the creativity of which impressed Hobbes. Calvin, however, even now claims that it was the “unvarnished truth”. Like the incident itself, we are never told exactly what Calvin’s excuse was. In fact, for all we know, it may actually be the truth. According to Calvin, although apparently caught or framed, no one can prove he did it (which is also said by the elf mentioned above). However, considering Calvin may just be defensive about it makes such a statement questionable.Police Officers (or Firemen) may have been involved, because Hobbes once asked “Did it have anything to do with those sirens around noon?” But this is debatable because Calvin’s parents never found out about the incident.Hobbes apparently knows of the incident. However, if police officers were involved, he was probably not at the school at the time, otherwise he wouldn’t have asked about the “sirens around noon”. If this is true, then it is likely that Calvin eventually told him.The incident might have taken place in the winter timeWhat most likely happened is that Calvin dumped his noodles on Suzie as an attack and they went all over the place.

I was flying one on a windy day in Alaska when I was a kid. I added two extra balls of string and it was a long way from us. You could barely see the kite in the distance when the string finally broke and the kite set itself free.