Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 21, 2024

What do you expect when you’re known to be a troublemaker, Calvin?

Dad still wants that Dachshund.

How often do Calvin’s parents look at him like that?

There’s sure to be an orphanage nearby

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Maybe you are just rotten parents?

Hey Dad, does quoting Thoreau build character?

Maybe a vasectomy before you spawn again.

Don’t think you want to know what your parents are thinking – most of the time.

Military Boarding School?

They want to downsize and it looks like Calvin is the first thing on the list to get rid of!

Take him to the childrens zoo and buy him a bag of peanuts and leave.

It was real easy for Thoreau to live mindfully and simplify when he had his mom and his sister coming to his house every day to clean his rooms, wash his laundry, and cook his dinners.

Read the story “Hansel and Gretel”, Calvin.

Send him off to join the circus. Then read Big Top to follow his adventures there.

“Mom, am I adopted?” “Not yet.”

I don’t blame you, Calvin. I don’t blame you. Kill them now. lol, etc…….. mu-ah ha hahaha ha haaaaa… Then run around laughing. You’ll be famous!

“Calvin? Your mom and I wrote a song. It’s called ‘Life Would Be Easier Without You’.”

Circus? Gypsies? Has to. be someone to take him.

Draw up a nice hot bath for Calvin. Be careful though… It is not uncommon for little brats, er, kids to drown in the tub.

That would be to easy.

I think they are intoning Calvin is complicated. It is tough keeping up with a self proclaimed genius who has mastered the art of time travel and transmorgification!

The Count has always wondered of Thoreau advocated Simplifying, why did he say it three times? Wouldn’t it have been simpler to simply say “Simplify”? Kind of like the job applicant who answered the question “What are your three best qualities?” by saying “Brevity”. Now take the pebble from The Count’s hand, Grasshopper. Psych! Ha!

Maybe it’s time to go incognito..

Probably happens every day

Be like a child!!!!!

One of my all-time favorites!

Take care, Calvin, but really, the looks don’t mean anything.

He’s the source of their aggravation. Simple answer.

And so we see where most of the complication comes from.

I just noticed, what is up with his legs? I know he like to cycle, but that’s steroidal maximus.

If it is possible to cut a Calvin out, always cut it out. – George Orwell, probably.

Mom and Dad can’t wait for Calvin to grow up and LEAVE ! Good luck…

There was a kid who lived next door to us when we moved to town. He was a good kid, never misbehaved in school or anything I was aware of and he was a couple of years younger than me. I used to hear his dad scream at him telling him, “If it wasn’t for you, your mother and I would be happy.” I couldn’t imagine how he must have felt. He hung out at our house a lot, probably because my parents loved on him as much as they did my brother and myself.

They moved away a year or so later. I still remember him looking out the back window of their car with tears streaming down his face. Never heard anything more about him.

Sigh, now I’m depressed. That was 60 or so years ago.

It’s okay, Calvin, they will keep you even though you are a pain.

I think Calvin is just as perfect as he can be.

This kind of talk between the parents should never be heard by the children.

As far as the parents being all worn out from work and household and taking care of Calvin, they should send him to day camp, or leave him for a week or two with the grandparents, and take a vacation, but I suspect that on day two they will miss their little boy.

Life becomes a lot more simple if you can realize that you do not have to rule the world; you just have to keep it from ruling you.

Calvin is representative of some kids I grew up with. In a far different day and age. Long gone now. Sigh. The good old days.

Marge: “Have you noticed any change in Bart?”Homer: “New glasses?”Marge: “No, he looks like something might be disturbing him.”Homer: “Probably misses his old glasses.”Marge: “I guess we could get more involved in Bart’s activities, but then I’d be afraid of smothering him.”Homer: “Yeah, and then we’d get the chair.”Marge: “That’s not what I meant.”Homer: “It was, Marge. Admit it.”

One crazy night of passion followed by countless days and nights of agony….that’s sex for ya.

It’s the “Too late” look.

I mean, they’re not wrong. . . .

One can see Calvin has no siblings…

It’s very good we still prohibit postpartum abortions…..

Thoughts are only thoughts, fortunately ! ;-)

Simplifying is just one of the reasons they give him that look.

“It became very clear to me sitting out there today, that every decision I’ve ever made, in my entire life, has been wrong. My life is the opposite of everything I want it to be.”

I hear that the Gypsies will be passing through town in a couple of days….

A little late for that, but still a good idea.

When you have a kid, it’s too late

Sorry, folks! Too late now!

But there’s so few legal ways to get rid of kids…

He said simplify twice, so not following his advice?

Calvin’s dad has been riding his bike a lot!

Send him to boarding school! That’ll simply your daily life, at least until they kick him out for blowing up the chemistry lab.

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Quoting a man who was suppose to be living in a cabin and getting no help from anyone, except he ate at his mother’s house almost every day.

You ever wonder why Thoreau said simplify twice?