Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 06, 2018

Santa must like effort. Look at all the paper Calvin used!

At least Calvin can’t say he wasn’t warned.

I could say something about how for a kid who doesn’t do well in school, he shows great organizational skills here. But, we all know it’s all about motivation for Calvin.

“Bow and arrow, laser gun, sword and shield, millennium falcon…” Hey a kid can dream.

I assume that atom bomb refers to a bomb the size of an atom. If he can’t see it, his parents can pretend that it is there.

Can hardly imagine what will be under Z.

If he put half that much effort into his school work, he’d be a straight-A student. And, when they are older, dating Suzy.

You’ll shoot your eye out, kid!

That’s true, yes!

I bet the local Dead Letter Department looks forward to this day all year.

Q: What’s on Hobbes’s Christmas List?

A: Tuna.

Well if he wasn’t on the naughty list before, he is now, and he wrote it all himself…

Only the big boys in charge get those toys, Calvin.

Try writing to Santa Gus c/o PNC Bank.

That’s what happens to little kids who are on the naughty list! They are sad on Christmas!

“Cross indexed the accessory items…” So that’s what I was doing wrong all these years!?!

today that list would still have wierd stuff on it, but he would be handing her a thumb drive

Someday Calvin will put some shrink’s kid thru college and grad school.

MAD Magazine once did a great bit on letters from Santa Claus. One went to the Department of Defense (with a cc to the Defense Ministry, U.S.S.R.) advising them of his annual flight and asking all radar installations to keep in mind that he would be the blip on their screens: “I would be quite chagrined if, instead of bringing the world good cheer, I brought it the start of World War III.” Good luck with that first item on the list, kid…

I am the worst person in the world to shop for on Christmas. When my wife asks me what I want for Christmas, I respond, “I don’t need anything.” She responds with “I didn’t ask you what you need, I asked you what you want.” I don’t want anything, but I usually request socks. You can never have too many socks.

That can be your Christmas list if you become president.

my parents used to give my brother and I the sears catalog to go through and mark up to give them ideas.

Mom should wait for the Reader’s Digest version.

Santa’s inventory is restricted to stuff for children who are “’good”. Yesterday was Calvin’s attempt to con his way into that group.

I live near the Christmas City, Noel, Missouri. They have a special postmark for this time of year. You can send your cards in an envelope, the post office will apply the postmark and send them on their way.

And we all know what’s under “F!”

… but I promise not to use the flamethrower in the living room!!

Atom bomb grenade launcher? How about a Davy Crockett?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device)

Not even the flamethrower?

Who knew, Calvin’s a wanna be Republican!

He got ahold of the Acme catalog

Santa does not deal in military grade weapons.

This is why I have evolved to the point where I want NOTHING for Christmas.

I also want NOTHING for my birthday.

If I remember correctly, he ended up getting socks. It’s still better than a bunny suit one is forced to wear.

Years agone, back in the late 70’s I worked at the Santa Claus house in North Pole, Alaska (It really exists) and my job included reading mail to Santa that might come anytime of the year, passing the best onto the crew who played Santa to the younglings who were always coming through. (One was an orthodox Jew who played banjo) There was always a couple of kids who tried to sneak military grade weaponry into an otherwise innocuous batch of requests. So far as I could tell, none of them were Heads of State.

Calvin you’re not getting a atom bomb or a grenade launcher