Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 26, 2023

Lot of Dads have that problem.

Not to mention the costs, materials and time to build ski lifts. Oh yeah! And the possibility of Calvin utterly destroying them in some way.

Dad, you left out expensive to keep up, and an “attractive nuisance”.

Then all the neighbours will want one, too. Besides, you don’t ski.

Are ski-lifts noisy?

I thought Calvin was an environmentalist.

My dad had that same problem back in the 1950’s-1970’s – and I was always critical of him for that. Well, today we are living the progress of yesteryears… America has been ‘blessed’ into destruction by so-called progress. My dad was correct and the dads who still fight ‘progress’ today are also correct. Stay in the fight dads, no matter what your spoiled little child says – or any others, for that matter.

Dad should have said “Okay. If you get a job to pay for it.”

It’s nice to own a hill?

Calvin, your Dad is ‘happy’ in what he is doing—he doesn’t want to have to deal with numerous people demanding things—besides he has you for that ! ! !!

“That and it doesn’t help build character!”

I’m with Dad on this one. Keep the trees!

“our” hill, how much land do they own? Do they own the woods Calvin is always exploring in?

Yesterday evening, I received some presents from family members at the Christmas Dinner at my sister’s house. My oldest nephew presented me with a set of Calvin and Hobbes coasters. I recognised them as being taken from book collections including The Days Are Just Packed and There’s Treasure Everywhere.

As I have mentioned before, my oldest nephew was born in 1979 when I was twelve. He was a six-year-old like Calvin when Calvin and Hobbes started in November 1985.

As I mentioned in two replies, Calvin would understand an envirommentalist argument. His environmemtal concerns are genuine and he accepts environmentalist arguments. However, Dad prefers to show that he’s in control rather than debate with his son.

Bill Watterson considered his parents old-fashioned in the 1960s – especially as they had what he considered the oldest TV set in America. However, he came to have his own Dad’s attitude to technology.

I much prefer having trees to a ski lift…

As far as I know, Calvin, you don’t live in Gatlinburg TN, where you would still get use of the lift even when it’s not winter. You’re outta luck, kid.

That’s Cal. the day after, being good is no longer a consideration.

Our sledding hill’s path was so narrow people could go up or down but not both at the same time.

Time to use eminent domain Calvin. He’s blocking “progress”.

Has Calvin done a marketing survey?

Your father is right, Calvin.

He knows progress, he just doesn’t care for it.

Uh, Dad? You know all those cliffs your son keeps riding his wagon and sled off of? You could have a nice side hustle here…

A Ski Lift? Just where do all of Calvin’s brilliant ideas come from? LOL…

I bet the Dad asked HIS dad the same thing when he was Calvin’s age.

even as a kid I wouldn’t have supported that, I live within spitting distance of the Botanical Garden in my area (a fancy name for a protected forest) so I always had a deep appreciation of trees.

One man’s progress is another’s recession…….

I would not do that, we do not have a hill, and I want trees.

And a ski lift won’t build character; right, Dad?