Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 27, 2024

Hopefully Mom has enough money for the robot to be completed in a few hours.

Wouldn’t the robot also need legs for moving and arms and hands for picking up?

No grants for Calvin without extensive testing…..

I didn’t know that the Internal Combustion engine was a simple machine to alter force! I’m surprised that Hobbes didn’t correct Calvin on that.

Except when Mom finds out you didn’t clean your room and make the bed, she’ll withhold your allowance.

Saying “The Screw” was too vulgar for 90s kids.

Too bad that this was before GoFundMe .

Better off going to the Centeral Government. They’ll probably hand you one without asking any questions or any oversight.

Just ask the caveman from today’s Super-Fun-Pak Comix

I saw that machine in The Cat In the Hat.

Grant request denied.

As long as you don’t use “Skynet” as the controller…….

And he’ll get an order to make his bed!

Calvin forgot “the keys!”

It looks like they need some help from Lio.

Calvin PhD in robotics.

And there are those who say Calvin isn’t smart.

♪ ♫

I’m changing my name to Chrysler

I’m going down to Washington DC

I will tell some power broker what they did for Iacocca

Will be perfectly acceptable to me

I am changing my name to Chrysler

I am headed for that great receiving line

And when they hand a million grand out

I’ll be standing with my hand out

Yes sir, I’ll get mine

♪ ♫

In truth, each of the items Cal mentions still have great effect in modern society, although their original uses have been enhanced by modern technology. If – and when – power fails, we’ll need to remember that those basic methods are still important for maintaining human life.

Knowledge without money?

It’s too early in the week to ask Mom for your weekly allowance, Calvin.

It’s good someone has an in depth history. Now we need someone from Luann to provide in depth psychological analysis!

A fossil fuel powered robot? LOL…

So a whole arc about Calvin making his bed? The Count ❤️s it! Beats the snot out of a month long Bore-a-thon with a spoiled obnoxious princess being dumped on her hawt aunt and box of rocks uncle by a deadbeat dad over on LuAnn.

I’m impressed Calvin was even aware of the simple machines and could name a few.

That way lies failure, Calvin.

Hobbes: “A research grant, and a tuna sandwich!”

He has to make sure his grant application differentiates between potential and kinetic energy

This kid has future in Government.

the wedge and the wheel & axle are 2 more

We pre-publish someone else’s obscure research to get the government interested.

So he’s a little off with the internal combustion engine, but he’s close, since the one he’s missing is the wheel-and-axle.

Yet, the crew is only an inclined plane wound on an axis.

Research making the bed by making the bed

8^)

Even though he isn’t 100% accurate, just knowing that stuff is a great start!

I’m rooting for you Calvin!! I’ll always back the underdog in an impossible situation.

8^)

And…he’s on the path to a successful academic career!

Yeah, that’ll work.

Don’t internal combustion engines also have levers and pulleys in them or something, too?

The “screw” is a revolved incline plane.

When you don’t pay attention to the teacher in science lessons . . .