Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 12, 2024

…and the cycle continues.

Gee, I wonder how much longer Calvin will procrastinate?

Good luck with that!

If only his homework assignment was to build a snowman.

Receives a reprieve from his doom, and then squanders it.

If you have five piles of snow and you use two to make a snowmen, how many piles do you have left?

How many snowmen can we build with 1-1/2 feet of snow in a 6×6ft space, given a melting rate of 0.5 inches of snow per day?

Math never goes away.

Hobbes, just think of all the snow zombies you and Calvin can make before Mom forces you to tackle your homework.

So many snow goons to build, so little time.

It’s the obvious choice: if the snow melts, then you have to stop playing and get back to your homework eventually; if it doesn’t, then tomorrow’s going to be another snow day!!

Me: (sighs and rolls eyes)

Yes, it will. Never postpone today what you can postpone tomorrow

I couldn’t enjoy the snow knowing I had homework hovering over my head. Calvin, get your homework done, then you can enjoy the whole day without worrying about school tomorrow.

I have recently started watching a US animated series called Craig of the Creek on ITV 2 here in the UK at 6.00 am. Today’s episode was called “Snow Day”. Craig was watching the TV news hoping for a snow day. In his imagination, he was called up into a TV game show called “The Ice Is Right”. He got to spin the wheel but found that instead of winning a snow day he had won a “Two Hour Delay”. Craig and his friends Kelsey and JP used the two hours to try to create a magic spell to create a snow day.

Some of you may scoff at me for still enjoying cartoons on TV but not all of you do. A commentator on one of my other favourite strips “Red and Rover” told me, “I think it’s wonderful that you still enjoy cartoons while in your fifties. Stay young.”

Sno’ use. Calvin will never change (and that’s not a bad thing, as far as I’m concerned). :D

Calvin, don’t do this to yourself! I just had a dream about having pending assignments hanging over my head, and I’ve been out of school for 11 years!

I’m with Calvin. If life gives you snow, don’t waste it inside. I think the reason Calvin & Hobbes appeals to us adults is that we WISH we could be that irresponsible, so we vicariously enjoy watching him be irresponsible for us.

Calvin, Calvin, Calvin… This is exactly why you didn’t do your homework last night!! HAVE YOU LEARNED NOTHING?

“First things first…but not necessarily in that order.”

Math will still be there, but not those hours that you lose in not tackling it immediately…

Unlike his counterpart Bart Simpson, poor Calvin didn’t have a sister like Lisa to remind him of his proper obligation.

Professional procrastinator!

Today it would be a visual meeting class day.

I was an incorrigible procrastinator as a kid. One Sunday evening I asked my parents to help me with a school project (make a diorama based on a book). My father asked me when it was due; I said, “Tomorrow”. He asked how long I’ve known about it. I said that it’s been a week or so. Dad said, “You got yourself into this; you get yourself out.” Ever since, whenever I feel the urge to procrastinate, I hear my father’s rich, deep voice saying those words.

Ahhh, yes, and the math homework STILL doesn’t get done. Glad my Mother INSISTED that Mr. Philippe’s elementary arithmetic( 5 pages) was done before suppertime ! ! ! ! !

When we had (relatively rare) snow days, I ended up shoveling the sidewalk and driveway.

Calvin apparently lived in the “snow belt” on the east side of Cleveland. Those of us on the sheltered west side were most likely reading this comic with envy after our school was not on the closings list.

If procastinating were a sport, Calvin would win the gold medal.

which pile should he do first? pile of math or pile of snow? (oh right i forgot he’ll never do the pile of math…)

’’…we got snowmen to make!"

Entirely predictable behavior on the part of Calvin.

The Count absolutely ❤️s Calvin’s thinking and prioritizing! Plenty of time for the math homework tonight after a few hours of binge watching “King of the Hill” on HULU like The Count.

Count your blessings, Calvin… 2 to 1, Calvin plays all day and does not do his homework. Again…

Sorry Hobbes but Calvin has a point here.

And he’ll forget to do his homework… Then wake up in the middle of the night in a panic again…

I’m surprised the Superintendent didn’t open Calvin’s school purely out of spite for being woke up at 2 AM.

The priorities are pretty straight, huh. Maths homework can gain some dust till the snow is there.

Calvin’s right, but he shouldn’t wait for TOO long.

am i the only one on a kindle rn??!?!? lol

Gee, I wonder where this is going. . . .

Also, if the snow’s two feet deep, why did it take so long for the announcement that school was closed to come through?

Apply Archimedes’ reasoning from “The Sand Reckoner” to snow crystals.

“Math will still be there when the snow melts”. Truer words never spoken.

Somehow this takes me back. Snow is fun and deserves a child’s undivided attention.

Math will last as long as the Universe exists. So Plenty of time.

Hobbes knows how this will end.

Is he STILL having the nightmare? He better hope so.