Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 14, 2010

Does mom know about the leaky amphibian yet?

Yeah, yer parents suck.

For those who are still wondering about ‘the noodle incident’, see my last two posts from yesterday.

Yea, it’s the parents’ fault as usual .

least Calvin will have some coal to keep warm………….

Or, perhaps a warm “bottom”…..

Calvin’s thinking like my Dad, but in inverse. It’s not my fault, it’s the kids fault.

So that’s the reason you act like you do!

G’Morning, Grog, Mike & Marg!

By that thinking may be called “trinkle-down psychology” unlike Calvin. Calvin is himself on his own. His Dad didn’t teach him to be mischievous.

Love Hobbes expression in panel 2

He claims he’s confident of an acquittal, expresses concern about a misinterpretation of the facts, suggests there are mitigating circumstances for any wrongdoing, and pleads nurture over nature, all in the span of three frames.

Impressive, if a little hard to follow.

Calvin is typical of our society. We look for excuses for all our sins.

She made me mad and that’s why I hit her. It’s her fault.

I was drunk when I did that. It’s not my fault.

I have ADHD and can’t help it.

When will we as a society insist that individuals, starting with out kids, take ownership of our actions?

It appears Calvin’s preparing his defence for an appeal of Santa’s ruling, just in case he finds himself on the Naughty List…

Any Pib fans here know what happened to the comments there? There used to be a link for them now even that has disappeared :(

To regard the mitigate circumstances is truely important! But we shall not push every fault to others, we must see the part of our fault, too!! Nothing will change, when always the others have the fault!

Perhaps it was an error or shyness.

DreamScourge………..Go Comics caved into demands by Brooke McEldowney. He didn’t like comments.

he sounds like a young politician. Good morning all.

I see Calvin and Hobbes are both exercising their vocabularies this morning. My fave strips are when one or the other (or both) use words not usually articulated by 6-year-old boys and/or toy tigers.

Calvin and I like to read the comic strips, and sometimes what we read there actually fits our lives pretty closely. For example, today Calvin was talking to me about Santa deciding what is good and what is bad, and he reminded me of Linus wrestling with the same issue:

http://comics.com/zoom/240985/

Of course, many adults feel that comic strips are mostly fantasy and not always believable. Especially Peanuts, where young kids seem to have incredible vocabularies (and Peanuts is all reruns anyway).

Nevertheless, Calvin and I really enjoy reading the funnies, we highly recommend it, and you folks should try it sometime.

– Hobbes

I couldn’t get here yesterday but would like to ask, was anybody else reminded of the all-time classic BBC April Fools prank about the Spaghetti Harvest? For those who are curious …

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/1/newsid_2819000/2819261.stm

There are mitigating circumstances for that?

Sure, blame it on your environment, Calvin.

I still love reading Peanuts, Hobbes, even though they are reruns. But then, so is Calvin & Hobbes.

Good Morning, Marg, Mike & ♠Lonewolf♠

The face of Hobbes in the second panel is wonderful.

Calin is wrong. Santa does NOT neglect the bad kids. He brings them presents. Lumps of coal, but they’re all nicely gift wrapped by the same elves. QUESTION: is there a court of appeals above Santa to try and get his decisions reversed? If so, I want Calvin as my lawyer!

Hobbes, I love your explanation. What I think then, is that perhaps, you are Calvin’s conscience because you seem to always know what is good or bad, whereas, Calvin rationalizes his behavior.

At least Calvin took the toad’s comfort into consideration. A snuggly sweater drawer sounds like a delightful environment to take care of one’s business.

Yukoner…..Drunks = Wife beaters = learning disabilities?

Rather interesting logic there.

Well third guy , educate all who are apparently, according to you, too under infomed to be able to express ourselves in a manner that you deem coherent

Prais the good Lord, in how much misery he has spread wings upon you! He is your light, don’t forget it, prais him in eternity!!

Calvin needs a blow up susie doll his size to take out his agressions on heh heh

“Paragon of virtue” … I like that.

I love Hobbes’s expression in panel two. He looks like he’s trying to keep down something he just ate having to listen to Calvin’s bragging about what a good kid he really is … it’s just the environment around him that’s bad!

(But Calvin does have a small point. Just twice recently, we saw his dad unwilling to stop reading a book for even 5 minutes in order to pay a little bit of attention to his young 6-year-old son. And when he does spare his kid a little bit of time, he does nothing but lie to him regarding the simplest of things! What’s an impressionable boy like Calvin supposed to do? I have a feeling that’s a small part of where he’s picking this stuff up! He can’t get his parents’ attention any other way than except through mischievousness – after all, attention for bad behavior is better than no attention at all!)

Hobbes you do not have to find any more things that Calvin does,that are iffy . This,boy should get the message by now. And Santa we all know keeps a ledger.

ABComic said, about 13 looks ago

Love Hobbes’ expression in panel 2

My first thought too.

Yukoner said, about 12 victims ago

Calvin is typical of our society. We look for excuses for all our sins. … When will we as a society insist that individuals, starting with our kids, take ownership of our actions?

Christianity (and Judaism before it) has been trying to encourage this for a long time. Maybe someday it will “take”.

DreamScourge said, about 11 decisions ago

Any Pib fans here know what happened to the comments there? There used to be a link for them now even that has disappeared :(

Check out the Gocomics Blog–it’s several down. (There were also once lots of comments, not removed.)

I have long held to the opinion that Calvin is a lawyer/politican in embryo. This is proof positive, beyond a doubt. When he gets old enough to run for office, I will be long dead so I’m cool with the whole thing….

DreamScourge–there was a message from UComics a few days ago that they were having problems with Pibgore’s comments. Sorry if I misspelled her, but I rarely read her strip. I would have thought, by now, that they’d fixed the problem.

HA HA HA HA HA HA!

A Paragon of Virtue? Walking around with a Sexy Beast??

hmmm…

Thirdguy, I am not presenting them as a logical sequence but as discrete examples of the “not my fault” syndrome that has become pervasive in our society.

Prfesser, I agree with you but feel strongly that morality and ethics have their base in the home environment. Peers, circumstances, life experiences influence us but the fundamental base is laid by the family.

“God bless us, everyone!”

“When will we as a society insist that individuals, starting with out kids, take ownership of our actions?”

I assume this is a typo, and you don’t want society to erradicate kids.

Why start with the kids and not oneself? If you are going to take ownership, start with yourself.

Also, if the fundamental base is laid by the family, then your argument logically follows:

She made me mad and, my family raised me that way. That’s why I hit her. It’s my family’s fault.

I was drunk when I did that because alcohlsim is in my family genes. It’s not my fault.

Hobbes, I really like reading the comics as well. Have you read Get Fuzzy yet? That one is edgy but still good.

As far as Pib comments,

See: CCoC v1.0 and: CCoC v2.0

I see that Calvin has figured out that WHO you are is more important than anything you DO.

Yukoner, I wasn’t presenting them as a sequence, I was saying that you presented them all as excuses that are used to do wrong. A learning disability is only that, not an excuse to misbehave. To include it with wife beaters and drunks is a diservice to those who live with something they were born with, and work to overcome everyday of their lives. And Ponytail, you are a humorless, and arrogant, but at least you are obnoxious.

@DINO-1

RIGHT ON THE MARK, GOD BLESS YOU………………

“santa” will get you.

I’m surprised, actually. We have a pet toad, and she doesn’t… leave presents…. for, like, a month at a time.