Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 11, 2024

As Lisa Simpson paraphrased Samuel Johnson:

Prayer. The last refuge of a scoundrel.

Even though we’re in March, I’m still hoping for snow!

Say five ‘Our Fathers’…..

But, will he do his homework if school is cancelled? I doubt it.

Hold a tray of ice cubes and do a rain dance.

I don’t see why you’re so worried, Calvin. Mrs. Wormwood must be used to your not doing your homework.

Now with Zoom etc kids don’t even get snow days.

First grade homework assignments are generally pretty short. He could probably get it done while he waits.

Don’t confuse God with a genie, Calvin.

God help Calvin (rolls eyes)!

A coin toss of major proportions. Good luck with that.

They always seem to have 2’+ feet of snow on the ground, enough for Calvin to build an army of 6’ snowmen.

How many remember those days?

You can always try to get it done on the bus Calvin.

Oh yeah like the @Just-me said. He can try and get it done on the bus. Unless it’s took quick a bus ride.

“I’ll have the whole day…” to ignore that homework and put it off until the last minute…

Nowadays, kids need to remember that ✨viRTuAL leArniNg✨ exists

Or, dearth of completed homework conversion.

We know that Calvin would NOT do his homework if the schools are closed. He’d blow off the whole day.

Calvin’s first Come to Jesus moment…

The weather gods are being overwhelmed by prayers.

Mom and Dad listened to the radio every morning for news and grain prices. We listened for school cancellations.

Could his worthless parents EVER help him with his homework – or see that he does it? They must have been extremely “into self” to never figure this one out.

Like He doesn’t know, Calvin?

A lot of kids are out of luck nowadays – some schools switch to online lessons when there’s too much snow.

I remember what that was like, getting up and dressed when hearing if the schools were closed or not. Though there were a few mornings where the news showed it in advanced, and so my dad would let me and my brother sleep in a bit and wake us up saying there’s no school due to the snow.

Maybe Miss Wormwood will call in sick, and they’ll get a sub who is a stoner (like Moe in the Simpsons)

lol ain’t no way the schools be closin

So is Calvin going to pray to God or the snow demons for the storm? Keeping his options open :)

national lampoon had a cartoon “NUTS” by Gahan Wilson. In one of the cartoons the kid got a bad report card and was waiting for punishment by his dad. Fortunately his dad camehome late and drunk, the kid thanked God and God response with no problem kid

I take it that Dad refused to make him a pot of coffee at 2:00 am.

I have no sympathy! 1 + 2 = 3- -easy peasy!

And if the schools close the homework still won’t be done.

W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. “I’m looking for a loophole,” he explained.

I really was Calvin back in the day.