Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 04, 2010

GOTCHA!

That’s one way of getting out of it…

One lives in hopes that boys will eventually grow up to be adult men, but as our 50-year old friend says, they enjoy staying boys.

I read something cute: A mother protects and nurtures her children, but fathers teach them a sense of adventure.

I think Calvin’s dad is slightly dumb actually. The things he teaches that poor confused kid! No wonder he is impossible! Poor little boy!

A good plan to start the year!

Thanks Marg for the New Years eve reminder!! :( Missed a chance… btw Happy New Year!! Hope all had a great time!!

And having learned nothing, you will make certain that you don’t become an inventor and build a time machine…

Time paradoxes give me headaches. Oo boy…

*bigCandHfan *, I wondered what happened to you. Hope you had a good New Year’s Eve.

By the time you figure it out, you’ll be out of school, Calvin.

Ahhhh, but in order to plan ahead, he had to first do the assignment to explain it. Ha! Teacher (1) Calvin (0).

Yeah marg… Had a great time!!

I admire your “no matter what, dont miss gocomics’ strips’ ” commitment…

Getting out is important!

As soon as I perfect my time machine, I’m going back to the early sixties.

Where I’ll give Lennon and McCartney the sheet music to hits they haven’t written yet.

Then I’ll zip back to my present time.

Just to see what happened.

Can you truly realize the brilliance and abstract complexity of what this boy has just planned. He probably doesn’t do well in school because he’s totally bored with it. Send him to a think tank and watch him roar.

no, hobbes is the one that roars. my gaud, must i always point out the obvious?

haha..never thought of that

cheers!

Or send him to the same public school I went to, jrbj, and watch two manic ENFPs in training leave everyone else’s heads spinning. :))

Come to think of it, that’s what actually happened. The difference is that poor Scott had to wait longer to bloom enough before he was taken as seriously as I was. When he did, my internal cheerleading squad was doing cartwheels for his sake.

Brilliant! A SMart Calvin!

This is brilliant! It should get an “A” for advanced conceptual thinking.

a blooming what? it’s generally followed by idiot.

School makes you “well-Trained” and not “Well-Educated”….

Wait, wait, wait…he has to live through it once already, then he comes back just to not live through it? I think Calvin has just invented a self-eating watermelon! Well, though the idea doesn’t much hold up to scrutiny, it is a brilliant commentary on just how much he hates this assignment. Too bad we all didn’t have Calvin’s escape mechanisms. I could use one or two right now!

To fbmce from last night: That does sound like the very definition of “too much of a good thing!”

As the Doctor would say, you can’t go back along your own time line….

Hilarious! Too bad Miss Wormwood doesn’t have any imagination or sense of humour or she’d at least laugh her head off before giving him an F.

As the River Bottom Gang sing:

“We don’t want to learn But we hate what we don’t understand….”

Heinlein would be proud!

My son didn’t like school and wouldn’t do homework. I had to think of ways to embarrase him. After HS he would not go to a tech or training school. He tested for military couldn’t pass that. Now jobs are nowhere to be found he is not going anywhere. He can’t leave home wind up homeless shelter. Our daughter strive hard and worked hard in school, went to different colleges, (we owe), needs to go back but we don’t have the funds and wants a job where there are non. We don’t have it as bad as Detroit but close.

Okay… If Calvin comes back to the day before so he wouldn’t have to… And thereby being the traveler would he maintain the memory of doing it in the first place wouldn’t it hold true that he’s already did it and thereby not doing it again makes it all a moot point… Then there is the others point of view?

Oh never mind Johanan Rakkav nailed it “Time paradoxes give me headaches. Oo boy…

For the holiday week, I just finished re-reading my 8 C & H Books. Shall I tell you all what happens? NAH… <:-)

Hobsie,

I think Calvin’s dad tries…remember the camping trip in the rain? Remember his bike rides and trying to teach Calvin to ride his bike?

I am Calvin’s dad and my son is Calvin. We have many of the same adventures and my son is just resistant to my sort of adventure and imagination and substitutes it for his own.

Chris

Another classic toon. Don’t try and figure it out. It’ll give you a headache.

calvin gets an A for for original thinking – a classic

Calvin’s ‘avoidance complex’ often makes more work for him than doing the assignment or performing the undesirable task.

sounds like more work to me :P

Why does he need to grow up to be an inventor, he has the carboard box? Or have we seen that yet. Maybe he invented it thirty years later and brought it back to give to his younger self. It must have multiple uses, depending on which side faces up. But wait, then he would never invent it. Time paradoxes give me headaches

a time machine, hey calvin, can i borrow it some time? id like to go back to the ’60s my self with the money i have today and buy the farm my uncle used to have………

I don’t know how much miss wormwood is going to appreciate this assignment calvin but I would give you an A+ for your original idea and your supprizingly great spelling and grammer.

But he didn’t avoid the assignment–he’s doing it, albeit with a bit of sideways thinking. I think it’s great. I wonder what Mrs. Wormwood will think. Or his parents…

may i recommend a short story by Robert A Heinlein called “By His Bootstraps” for further reading?

Do you think sideways thinking will advance his cause? :o)

this is bound to cause a rift in the space-time continuum

He just blew my mind!

bald 716: do not try to spend today’s cash in the 60s. One look at your bills and they’ll put you in the slammer for counterfeiting. You won’t be able to sell a computer, an iPod, a GPS, a cell phone, a DVD player, an HDTV or any of that stuff that requires today’s infrastructure. Leggos could work for bartering, but wouldn’t be worth what you’d have to pay for them here. Better to take a bunch of coins and buy candy from vending machines and sell it here for a x10 profit.

bleeep time paradoxes. I knew better than to think about it. There’s always a fly in the ointment.

I’m going for a Tylenol now.

I should be worried I guess Because I like his invention and it sounds like fun Taking Hobbes with me of course

@yyyguy, there’s also Heinlein’s later “—All You Zombies—” and David Gerrold’s The Man Who Folded Himself.

yyyguy: You speak of the “Diktor”, I believe. Strange story…

i wouldnt recomend inventing a time machine, look what happend in back 2 the future lol

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

My favorite was The Time Machine.

that would be pointless cuz he wouldn’t prevent that day from happening he’d just visit 2 parts of the past

Makes sense to me

According to string theory, what Calvin is proposing has already happened in alternate and infinite universes…

Did someone misread my post? I can’t believe it got Bleeped.

Richard said, about 19 paradoxes ago

“Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.”

And also the yesterday you regret tomorrow.

thebird55, no–there is a nannybot that doesn’t like certain words here, including a word for repairing socks…

Perhaps Calvin knows Dr. Who and other Time Lords.

Binary Wiener: I just read your comment from yesterday. I was only five and a paste eating boy in kindergarden was cool. He definitely “stuck out” from the other boys in the class. Seriously he must of known I liked him because one day he cornered me in the clothes closet before class and I thought he was going to punch me or something. Instead he grabbed me and kissed me and put his picture in my hand and told me I was his girlfriend. What’s a girl to do? Coffee-Turtle: I love Science Fiction and I’ve been a huge Dr. Who fan since it was in black and white. If you get the BBC America network check it because I found three movies of Dr. Who there that fills in the gaps before the start of new season. They also did a couple of fun tributes on the Graham Norton show that they’ve been broadcasting on the same network.

ingenius! ;) i wish i had that kind of wit!

I wouldn’t turn that in to the teacher if i were you calvin