Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 12, 2010

You got that right, Hobbes!

And Calvin doesn’t even have a license yet!! Woo Hoo!

Love your Avatar, Marg, even though I don’t know who she is..

Just pretend that you don’t know what happened.

We’re doomed….DOOMED!

He’ll wiggle out of this…. I know he will.

Well, the important questions is ……will he even make it to sixteen, Hobbes?

Good Morning, Marg, Mike & Grog!

ML, she’s Maude Fealy. And yours is Nelson Eddy and jeanette Mc Donald?

‘Morning, Terry.

Maybe they underestimated him. They should be prepared for this.

And after a few years Calvin will be so proud of this feat.

Somehow, I doubt that.

Julius Caesar said, “Which death is preferably to every other? The unexpected.”

Good morning Marg! Good morning Fran and Kizzzy! Good Morning L’Wolf! Good Morning Grog!

RUN CALVIN RUN!!!!!!!!!!!

It’s definitely not looking good from this angle!

So now I’m picturing a 16-year-old Calvin preparing for a short drive down his usual hill….

Oooops!

Well, it could have been worse. The car could have hit the fire hydrant too.

No need to panic—just wipe off your fingerprints (and pawprints) and tell them you’ve been doing your homework all day.

Few days ago I read a few comments by some CnH followers deriding fellow followers for their not so impeccable hold over English grammar.

(http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2010/07/08/

comments by Travis were not so courteous).

I came across today’s “For Better or For Worse” that was marred by, at least, two grammatical mistakes.

http://www.gocomics.com/comic_page/explore/899097?page=10 (corrections are … more raisins than I have… and … he got his legs…)

Wonder who will comment on so gross usage of grammar? We can be more tolerant to people whose English is not so proficient. We ourselves make umpteen obscure mistakes.

After a LONG time, I can imagine Mom and Dad laughing about this incident. On a more short term basis, Calvin is in for it BIG TIME! He’s done a lot of mischievous, naughty things, but this one is serious.

The car? I’m surprised the house is still standing!

So did I a few days back .. So did I .. Well we can only think of bigger things from here on .. right Calvin? but I doubt you’d be thinking about anything for the next few days .. I can see your life flashing before my eyes as well .. :-D

By the time that Calvin finishes his grounding sentence, he will be sixteen!

goferrari28, …good observation! It’s likely that the fire hydrant is already ‘going to the dogs’. Ironically, if the car had hit the fire hydrant, it might have been stopped from going into the ravine.

“Where am I to go, now that I’ve gone too far…”

Twilight Zone Golden Earring 1982

@BinaryWiener .. ya for sure .. and I dont see him really driving a car till he buys his own .. lolz ..

Mike Firesmith said, Julius Caesar said, “Which death is preferably to every other? The unexpected.”

Julius Caesar ‘lived’ up to his saying! …”Et tu, Brute?” Does it prove that “the pen is mightier than the sword”…or the sword is mightier than the pen? …or both?

“My life is flashing before my eyes.” I suppose that includes “women wearing tight clothes” (thanks to Hobbes’ influence). Calvin is in a rather tight situation, himself.

Montana Lady - Evidently you missed my ID of Marg’s avatar the other day. Maude Fealy was a stage and silent film star of the 20’s but most notable as a playwrite and screen writer.

Moronbis - Remember Dizzy Dean? After a brilliant career with the St Louis Cardinals, he became a baseball broadcaster. English teachers all across America tried to have him censored for his terrible grammar. One of his favorites was, “He slud into second base.” I heard him say one time, “… which hardly no umpire don’t never do no more.”

You are so dead, Calvin.

Good Morning, Marg, Mike & ♠Lonewolf♠

moronbis, It’s the two little kids that are making the grammatical mistakes in “For Better or for Worse”. However, the gratuitous use of ‘got’ bothers me. It’s very common, in general. Usually have, has, or had is sufficient (without got).

‘Morning Mike and Loki.

Woodeye … The new avatar is nice. You used this one before didn’t you?

Calvin’s eyes may never go back to normal size.

Good morning all! Well, it’s Monday! Have a great week! Probably Calvin’s best bet is to just deny everything. After all, if he didn’t take the car out of park or put it in neutral, then his mom might think it just rolled out by itself. I know that Newton’s first law says SOMETHING has to get it moving, but maybe mom was weak in Physics.

Who ever drove the car last should have put it in “park” and set the hand brake, FREE CALVIN!

go in the house and pretend you don’t know what happened,won’t work but at least you have a moment of hope.

Calvin you can always say that ” you were sitting in the can listen to the radio when a car jacker came by and you were car jacked. He throw you and as he was leaving he wrecked the car, ” I just know Hobbes will back you up ..At least you will live to get another year older.And Calvin to make it look real put some dirt on your clothes and cry just a little.

Suggestions: Run away Join a religious order learn to whistle Practice the line “Car? where we going Mom?” When all else fails, do your usual, **BLAME HOBBES!

I didn’t do it. No one saw me do it. You can’t prove anything.

I have a feeling that the “barefoot bandit” that they finally caught in the Bahamas, after a two year chase, must have been very similar to Calvin as a young boy, with a mind that was constantly thinking up some grand new adventure.

At least they missed the fireplug. I would be standing there drenched if it were me. These guys have all the luck.

i love hobbes.

Calvin, just whip out the old credit card and get a tow truck to haul it out of the ditch. It’ll be fine, and your dumb folks will never know the difference, once you and Hobbes clean the grass and mud out of the grill. Been there, done that.

I can’t figure how he missed that hydrant. Guess that would have been too much even for Calvin. And speaking of tight clothes, I thought he didn’t even like girls?

at some point perhaps these perky and incisive comments will be pulled from the ditch

stupendus_spiff said, several versus ago

“Where am I to go, now that I’ve gone too far…”

Twilight Zone Golden Earring 1982

My life was flashing.

Puddleglum2

In this case I suspect the Mom will be mightier than the Calvin.

Where are their GROSS hats? That might help.

how long did it take to watch your 6-year-old life flash before your eyes?

Prayers “ain’t” gonna’ help here….

Calvins to smart to become a barefoot bandit.I was selling my wifes old car parked on the front lawn,when the lad came to mow the front lawn.the fun started. To move it I needed keys, I got the wrong ones ,went back to the house to get the right keys came back no car.the kid mowing the lawn never seen it move. When we found the car it was 100 ft away looked just like Calvins mess. No one got hurt. and every one even the wrecker driver stretched the truth a bit to make small of it.

Let me take out my cellular and call you a wrecker….oh no…I got no cellular…cause I’m a pothole…soooooo…k…bye!

Hobbes is unusually ascerbic in this one, and he is right on the mark, as usual. Instead of sending away for a beanie, Calvin should apply for the “Drive Much These Days” award. If he gets it, the look on his mother’s face when she answers the door and finds that the guy standing there is there to award Calvin the look on her face should be worthy of being put in the Louvre.

Coffee-Turtle said: Let me take out my cellular and call you a wrecker….oh no…I got no cellular…cause I’m a pothole…soooooo…k…bye!

My favorite commercial in the whole world!!! I haven’t seen it in a long time though. Thanks for the biggest laugh I’ve had all day and for starting my week off right!!!!!

Oh boy. In another decade, history shall repeat itself.

My husband did this same thing at the same age as Calvin although not down a driveway but down a hill…..he hasn’t stopped playing with cars ever since!

Calvin you could always use the excuse i used when I was younger; “It wasn’t me, it was my evil twin

Hobbes is so cute!