You and the principal or on good terms, so go to him and tell him you will stay out of his office for a month if he goes and gets his truck back and kicks Moe out of school. I think he will go for it.
Seems like about the time this strip originally ran we were taught to stand up to bullies. “Poke him right in the nose” was common fatherly advise. I expect Calvin would get the same results poking Moe in the nose as I would if I poked you-know-who. Except, in the latter case, some secret service agent would have to retaliate for him lest he bruise his little hands.
What you do is bring together a like-minded group of people who, with strength in numbers, decide to no longer put up with that sort of dickery and take back what was stolen!
The right of self defense is enshrined in just about every legal system on the planet – unless you are in school, where they will punish the defender just as severely as the attacker. This is their version of “justice”.
Rat him out, but be sneaky about it so that Moe admits it. Like claiming it’s lost and radioactive or something, so Moe reacts strongly before realizing it was just fake news.
Calvin, you have one of the most fiendishly creative minds on the planet. Surely you can overcome brawn without even working up a sweat. If not, get Lio to help you. He’s got toys.
Every act has consequences, they tell us, but “Karma” had to be invented (like dark matter) to explain how some things don’t seem to fall into the stated pattern. I generally fall back on “he’ll eventually come to no good end / be sorry” / etc. but I really don’t have good evidence of that.
Use your tact to out power Moe. Remember he takes hours to understand a long sentence punctuated with high vocabulary content. And you are the best in that.
If Moe is a “smart” bully, like some of the ones I’ve known, he’ll claim the truck is his if Calvin tries to rat on him. And unless Calvin marked it somehow, there’ll be no way to prove it’s his and the teachers won’t do anything. Then Moe can do with it as he pleases. I witnessed this so often when I was a kid; it’s what happens when punks from moneyed families always get their way.
BE THIS GUY about 5 years ago
Morality isn’t that moral.
Templo S.U.D. about 5 years ago
way to gather your thoughts, Calvin
codycab about 5 years ago
Tell a teacher, Calvin.
JudyHendrickson about 5 years ago
I actually feel sorry for Calvin!!
SHIVA about 5 years ago
The truck is history!!
fuzzbucket Premium Member about 5 years ago
If you take it back you are recovering your property, not stealing.
CharlesTustison about 5 years ago
Have the H. Clinton firm look into it.
GreggW Premium Member about 5 years ago
Congrats Calvin, you’re thinking like a neoconservative.
Troglodyte about 5 years ago
That sounds defeatist.
MagOctopus about 5 years ago
It sounds like the way the world often goes, but not how it ought to go, no. Poor Calvin.
jpayne4040 about 5 years ago
Get some help, Calvin! You can’t battle this on your own!
Watcher about 5 years ago
You and the principal or on good terms, so go to him and tell him you will stay out of his office for a month if he goes and gets his truck back and kicks Moe out of school. I think he will go for it.
leopoldenoch about 5 years ago
Tell the teacher, tell your parents. Suddenly you’re a dummy…
cpiller Premium Member about 5 years ago
How long ago was this strip actually drawn? The more things change, the more they stay the same….
davidf42 about 5 years ago
Never Forget!
bookworm0812 about 5 years ago
It’s not stealing if it’s yours.
bbenoit about 5 years ago
Seems like about the time this strip originally ran we were taught to stand up to bullies. “Poke him right in the nose” was common fatherly advise. I expect Calvin would get the same results poking Moe in the nose as I would if I poked you-know-who. Except, in the latter case, some secret service agent would have to retaliate for him lest he bruise his little hands.
YippiKiAyMofo about 5 years ago
What you do is bring together a like-minded group of people who, with strength in numbers, decide to no longer put up with that sort of dickery and take back what was stolen!
flagmichael about 5 years ago
I love the way Watterson left out the panel dividers to heighten the sense of being rudderless.
gantech about 5 years ago
That was me. Calvin, not Moe.
swanridge about 5 years ago
Philosophy is a walk on slippery rocks.
DCBakerEsq about 5 years ago
Life 101.
yipp_eeee about 5 years ago
Why does this sound so familiar these days?
bxclent Premium Member about 5 years ago
Sic Hobbs on him ….. GGGGRRRRRRR CHOMP BITE SCRATCH ETC…………
Nick Danger about 5 years ago
The right of self defense is enshrined in just about every legal system on the planet – unless you are in school, where they will punish the defender just as severely as the attacker. This is their version of “justice”.
Charlie Fogwhistle about 5 years ago
Rat him out, but be sneaky about it so that Moe admits it. Like claiming it’s lost and radioactive or something, so Moe reacts strongly before realizing it was just fake news.
zeexenon about 5 years ago
Hire Big Vinny The Repossesser. He has a busy calendar also serving subpoenas and divorce decrees, and forecloses, so sign up early.
patrickab7 about 5 years ago
Sounds like the way of the world, then and now, sadly.
Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member about 5 years ago
I am firmly convinced that the biggest problem with the human species as a whole is bullying.
The second is greed.
All bad things that we do to ourselves is rooted, somehow, in those two things.
jameseyboyjackson about 5 years ago
We have all probably been in a story like this. Moe the world class poop head.
Drummer54 about 5 years ago
There in a nutshell is the history of the world
Snoots about 5 years ago
Calvin, you have one of the most fiendishly creative minds on the planet. Surely you can overcome brawn without even working up a sweat. If not, get Lio to help you. He’s got toys.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] about 5 years ago
Take a pipe and start hurting him till he is crying then hit him just one more time to quiet him. Then walk away.
fix-n-fly about 5 years ago
At least learn a lesson from this Calvin – don’t take any of your personal stuff to school that you can’t afford to lose.
fgerbil46 about 5 years ago
When injustice becomes law, then resistance is duty. Getting back your property, however you do it, is your duty.
Concretionist about 5 years ago
Every act has consequences, they tell us, but “Karma” had to be invented (like dark matter) to explain how some things don’t seem to fall into the stated pattern. I generally fall back on “he’ll eventually come to no good end / be sorry” / etc. but I really don’t have good evidence of that.
Bacon’s revenge about 5 years ago
It’s Moe. Is Calvin immortal
RonBerg13 Premium Member about 5 years ago
Oof-Duh!
tinstar about 5 years ago
Just smile, and “Keep on truckin’.”
hagarthehorrible about 5 years ago
Use your tact to out power Moe. Remember he takes hours to understand a long sentence punctuated with high vocabulary content. And you are the best in that.
InquireWithin about 5 years ago
If Moe is a “smart” bully, like some of the ones I’ve known, he’ll claim the truck is his if Calvin tries to rat on him. And unless Calvin marked it somehow, there’ll be no way to prove it’s his and the teachers won’t do anything. Then Moe can do with it as he pleases. I witnessed this so often when I was a kid; it’s what happens when punks from moneyed families always get their way.
christopher.w.owen about 5 years ago
Hit him in the head with a bat.
lindz.coop Premium Member about 5 years ago
Aren’t today’s kids being taught to grab whatever they want, beat up whomever they want, and never, ever admit you are wrong or say sorry.
johnscar Premium Member about 5 years ago
Trump is Moe. Calvin is all of us.