Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for October 01, 2009

You cannot fool Susie Derkins.

Now, do you know what it is, Calvin? LOL

Susie also believes action speaks louder than words.

Hi, Marg!

C’mon, Calvin, drop the screwballitude and surrender already. You know you love her. :)

Now I wonder what gave Calvin away to Susie?????!!!!!!!! LOL

Geez - I wonder if it was the outfit.

Susie is just starting to get warmed up for when grows up…way ahead of you.

Earl , they’re always way ahead of us …. ’ working late my bleeep ! ’ ring any bells ?

Calvin needs to either improve his aim or his fibbing. Right now neither one is working for him.

Women have always been “perceptive” … any kid (or wayward spouse!) who’s tried to get away with something can attest to that!

Get him Susie!

This teaches you a lesson for many years to come Calvin: you’ll always be the looser when challenging girls !! Never forget that.

For “for a girl” always read “I hate to admit it, but…”

surprising how it happens everytime eh Calvin?

There , that’s for you and the tiger you rode in on .

At that age girls are much smarter than boys! One of the reason the two genders don’t usually get along well at that point in their lives. Give him about 6 years…..:)

There are times when you should never “play dumb”. Dealing with women are one of those times. They already know men are dumb. Calvin just proved it.

Probably just the bow sjoujke (and vinaybhatta)–since arrows usually need to be impelled FROM one.

(so, even if he’d dressed as “English soldier at Agincourt”, he would have been busted due to the bow)

But. But. But. I don’t know. Never works for me but I keep trying it.

after long time susie is back. now it will be fun for a while.

Apparently it’s a boomerang.

prasrinivara …unless he was missing his bow-fingers–obscure reference to Agincourt and the begining of the British two-fingered hand sign.

He’s lucky she only stuck it on his nose.

Apparently Calvin didn’t learn a thing from the plumbing episode. He a lousy liar. But if he told the truth, would anyone believe him?

Girls much smarter than boys at that age? Even were that true (and I don’t buy it), I must’ve been an exception to a lot of rules. I always liked most girls better than most boys (though my very closest friends were boys), never passed through a stage where I didn’t like girls (though I do recall a certain male-superiority complex, mercifully brief, about age 13), and yielded mental superiority to no one of either sex (even adults). I think I saw, respected and learned from wisdom, most of the time.

Now, so much later, I understand why. For one thing, I was like Calvin’s transmogrified good twin (though far from without his brand of mischief or incompetence): a Jungian ENFP in development who started off having more in common than most males do with most females. For another, I had a mother who had hard dealings with the male gender and who overcompensated enough so that I had to look past preconceived notions of male or female superiority. And later, I had the best religious teachers one could possibly ask for.

I call into question the whole sterotypical idea that females are “smarter” than males (or vice versa). For one thing, there are more geniuses and more morons among males. For another, there are overall differences in kinds of intelligence and how they’re arrayed. It also takes most males longer to mature emotionally. Calvin isn’t dumb compared to Susie - he’s just more self-centered.

Can you tell that one of my hot buttons has been pressed? :)

Looks like Calvin speaks with forked tongue.

It’s not time yet to take a squaw Calvin…..

LMAO

Hey, BC13 (about eight posts before mine here) - How could Calvin learn from the plumbing fiasco in time for today’s strip? It looks like today’s art is drawn about 20 years before the plumbing episode. Calvin is an old, old man. He’s been in reruns for ages. Can it be that, as of October 1, we are witnessing the cusp at which the final “new” strips have been published and we return once again to the earliest? A milestone relic, even?

This feels like going back to the 1950s Peanuts strips (such as one in which Patty very understandably mistakes Charlie Brown for a beachball while he’s swimming). Susie is wearing the overalls of a 2-year-old, right before most girls get hooked on Twirly Dresses 24/7. (I don’t think she kept wearing overalls forever, did she?) Anyway, it’s an old strip.

aww how sweet

at least susie didn’t put the arrow someplace else where it might not be seen

Ok, she might not be smarter than him, but she definately has better aim.

Aven Yesterday’s strip is dated 8/17 while today’s is dated 8/18 (bottom left hand corner of the 4th panel). FYI, C&H only ran for 10 years.

Rakkav: You are essentially correct. 6 year old girls aren’t necessarily smarter than boys, but they are more mature. Susie’s ability to see through Calvin stems from her relative maturity, the same reason as the rest of us. Watterson was (is?) a genius, and Calvin’s pretty smart, too - look at his vocabulary at times!

to Leonardeuler:

Women are always right. I have found that even if I’m right, I’m still wrong. A lose-lose situation at all times.

Hey horizon1129, it’s a little early for a snowball fight, isn’t it ? Winter didn’t come yet……..

@Rakkav

One of your buttons got pressed? I would have never noticed.

Rakkav said

You know you love her. :)

Calvin in 2009: married to Susie, with a 9 year old son, Calvin Jr., who makes his dad look like an amateur trouble maker..

….meanwhile, Calvin Jr’s grandfather is finally content in the way things are coming around on his son. Karma may take its time but it will show up.

All girls are the same

(That’s a) nice anticipatory sidestep, Susie!

Ya gotta figure Susie knew who did it pretty much right away! lol lol !

Of course, she does. She’s not stupid. After all, Calvin still has the bow in his hand. And he’s got the nerve to deny it, with bow in hand.

if all girls are the same , why do the boys think we come in different flavors? blondes , brunets , redheads

Rakkav said, “C’mon, Calvin…You know you love her. :)” Calvin is Susie’s beau (bow), now. Cupid’s arrow has hit Calvin ‘right on the nose’, although not through the heart.

“For all have sinned, and come short (miss the mark) of the glory of God.” Romans 3:23

EMET

You are on a roll.

A

If a man says something and there’s no one there to hear him, is he still wrong?

jeje simple y sencillo pero genial

If this were a real arrow instead of a suction cup arrow Calvin would be in the Guinness Book as the person with the most holes in his/her nose. (Not counting piercings.)

God is still working on me. “I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 3:14

“Being confident of this very thing, that he which has begun a good thing in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.” Philippians 1:6

Men aren’t stupid. Just simple. A man is like a dog. They seek to fulfill basic needs. Eat, sleep, recreate, repeat. So long as their basic needs are fulfilled, most are happy.

Women are more complex. They want stuff, social interaction, emotional comforts, safety, status, and more stuff. They’ll even forego basic needs in pursuit of the more complex stuff and few are happy unless they get it.

Is it any wonder the two sexes rarely understand one another? And as for which strategy is more “intelligent”… well, to each his/her own.

Calvin and Susie sittin in a tree. K-I-S-S-I-N-G :-) young love. how refreshing :-)

Susie didn’t need the outfit or the bow to suspect Calvin. She KNOWS Calvin. Girls at that age usually are more advanced in verbal skills (though Calvin has an amazing vocabulary) and they develop fine motor skills earlier. That makes it easier for them to sit still and do they type of work teachers value. Boys will catch up if they can stay alive long enough.

If Stede’s analysis of men is correct, (and I don’t believe it is true of ALL men) it’s because they have dulled their sensitivities to conform to society’s norms of what is macho.

All girls are perceptive, Calvin. You’ll never get anything by one, ever!

All women want is for men to admit that they did it and all will be forgiven! Nobody likes a liar or a sneak.

Calvin messing with Susie… yet again, boys and girls. ha ha ha

‘If a man says something and there’s no one there to hear him’, how can it be known whether he is wrong or not?

I’ll go along with whatever… If ‘you are on a roll’, you might be a hamburger. Well, we all can’t be Prime Rib, especially if one cavorts with a Backward Caveman. ‘You are what you eat’, or what eats you.

Matthew 6:5-6

what comes around comes right back at you; except worse.