Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for October 26, 2016

Wow, great strategy. I must use it!

Calvin likes his girls skinny.

Uh oh, it looks like Goatcomix skipped a few strips here.

What was Susie even thinking in the first panel?

Hasn’t she learned anything?

My grand daughters school ( junior kindergarten ) has a strict no trading policy. It’s probably so kids don’t trade away the nutritious parts of their lunch, or maybe it’s about allergies.

Egg salad?!? It might as well be processed mouse loaf. That stuff is nauseating.

If you give a mouse a cookie

(In reference to real cookies only)Calvin, a boy after my own heart.

How do ya process that, with a sledgehammer?

Buffalo chip cookies.

Though there be madness, yet there was method.

From Star Trek: “Jim, madness has no purpose. Or reason. But it may have a goal.” Calvin’s goal was COOKIES!

Mouse breeding has improved sooo much in recent years. I think they’ve actually found ways to tenderize the whiskers.

When I was in the service, one Thanksgiving they fed us Turkey Loaf. Might as well have been MOUSE!

You should have seen the spider that caught the mouse first.

Calvin’s a smart cookie :-)

I got something today. http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1993/02/05

Why does Susie sit with him?

I like egg salad, and I liked the school hot lunches way back when; especially on Fridays when we got fish sticks and parsley buttered potatoes. A lot of kids hated fish sticks and I would often get their unwanted servings!

It might be why I’m not particularly fond of fish sticks today…

Processed mouse would be allowed in school today. Peanut butter is banned.

Calvin is an awful child.

xxx

Back during the war, we’d be sent to school with PB&J sandwiches and the other more well-off kids would be eager to ‘trade’ for such, and sis and I would wind up the better with Egg and/or Tuna Fish sammiches. Never could escape Wonder Bread and its ability to be rolled into a ‘starch marble,’ though..How did I ever last this long???

Surprised she is sitting beside him in the first place, since she already knows how he is…

Ha. Well played, Calvin. Made me laugh.

Though, I’m not entirely hungry anymore, myself.