Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 10, 2023

Mrs. Wormwood worked on Outer Limits before she went into teaching.

Haha, that is a great drawing of Mrs. Wormwood

I wonder if this is where jump scares first started.

Mrs. Wormwood? I always thought/assumed miss Wormwood.

Good, maybe he’ll escape to his spaceship, and never return!!

Miss Wormwood must have an Iron Constitution to put up with Calvin !

Lfe controls the channel. We get what we get, whether we like it—or deserve it!—or not.

At 6 years old, he’s learning what happened in 1654?

Who the he11 teaches history like that to first graders?? Even adults’ bored minds would wander away from that stupid lecture!!

Mrs. Wormwood, appropriately named.

https://www.onthisday.Com/events/date/1654

In this regard, I was Calvin, and Calvin was me. Reality was just too painful.

haha, it looks like she had mysterious planet zartok 3 for lunch !!

Fantasy. His one coping method in trying to survive a jerk for a teacher.

I love the artwork of Panel #3. Not so much the artwork of Panel #5!

1654 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1654th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 654th year of the 2nd millennium, the 54th year of the 17th century, and the 5th year of the 1650s decade.

Welcome to network programming, Calvin!

In 1654 Anthony Johnson, in Northampton County, convinced the court that he was entitled to the lifetime services of John Casor, a Black man. This was the first judicial approval of life servitude, except as punishment for a crime.

And also Russia and Poland were fighting over the Ukraine

I have to wonder if Calvin is one of the misfit muppets…

Cal wants the controls. Life doesn’t offer that as a choice

So what was happening in 1654?

He is so ADHD…

It won’t be too long before smart TVs show us what they think we should be watching.

Q: What happened in 1654?

A: Lots of things.

The year slavery was made legal in the USA.

Miss Wormwood Wants YOU!!!

LOL… A LOT of day dreamers in school went on to be genius authors, inventors, business tycoon, etc. But, Mrs. Wormwood’s job is to create worker bees for the system.

Perhaps Calvin is bored because he is so far ahead of the 2nd grade class. My son quit school at age 14 because as he said “They had nothing for me.” A couple of years ago he turned down an IT offer from Amazon for $250K/year. He’s 39 and just announced he has enough money to retire now.

State mandated curricula are seldom age-appropriate.

This is a pretty advanced first grade.

Zartok 3 would be the third planet in the Zartok system, capable of supporting life

The static effects and Miss Wormwood’s “PAY ATTENTION!” are so funny!

1654. The Treaty of Westminster, ending the First Anglo-Dutch War. Slavery was brought to North America

Hard to do when just about anything in Calvin’s imagination is a heck of a lot more interesting than anything that happened in 1654.

Miss Wormwood could tell Calvin was daydreaming. He was the only one in the class without a bored expression.

welcome to streaming

Your channel selector doesn’t have the necessary power, Calvin.

Aw, go drink some belladonna, Wormwood!

So what happened in 1654 that they’re teaching to first graders? I like to think that it was French mathematician/philosopher Blaise Pascal’s “Night of Fire” mystical experience on November 23, but that doesn’t seem to fit the map behind Miss Wormwood.

Mrs Wormwood has no idea about the avid imagination of Calvin, aka spaceman spiff.

Aw, go drink some belladonna, Wormwood! ;p

Scary.