Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for October 22, 2009

For you and the teacher, both.

you bring it upon yourself, calvin. quite adorably though.

what’s wrong with queen fragg of hysteria? oh yeah, i almost forgot. those in the excited states (as foth the froth used to refer to them) frown on people taking liberties with national symbols.

Margueritem said, 17 minutes ago

For you and the teacher, both.

Aren’t you forgetting the Principal ?

Queen Fragg is not amused

What’s the deal? He has the pledge down perfect..

There’s a little bit of Calvin in all of us…………that’s why we like him!

vibjyor, you’re right! How could I overlook him?

Y’all do know the Pledge was written by a died in the wool Socialist. Francis Bellamy. The entire point was to sell flags to schools, but Francis was true to his brother’s socialist beliefs, and actually wanted to include equality in the things we pledge allegiance to.

Constitution preamble: “… in order to farm a more perfect onion…” They took that seriously in Vidalia, Georgia.

Constitution preamble: “… in order to farm a more perfect onion…” They took that seriously in Vidalia, Georgia.

Queen Fragg needs to get fragged….LOL

In 1958’ish I had to pledge allegiance to Canada every morning Can’t remember the words, but pretty sure there was a Queen in there somewhere! (We sang “God save the Queen” a lot too which definitely featured Her Maj…)

I believe a few years ago in B.C a student in his attempt to recite our Pledge of Allegence to his teacher stated, “I pledge all legions to the flag of the Nighted States of a Miracle and to the Republican Richard Standze, one nation under God, undies visible, with livery and injustice for all. Amen.

One of my favorite Calvin strips. Too many people don’t know what the Pledge of Allegiance means anymore.

Freedom to poke fun at things like the pledge (in either the US or Canada) is a sign of how much freedom we truly have.

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Well Yukoner, that may be because, more now than in the past, that people’s words are worth a big pile of steaming dog doo. That kind of renders any verbal oath or vow meaningless, if you really think about it.

(my apologies for being so cynical)

With no accountability, sensibility, loyalty or honor, this is what we get.

thank you fdr

I miss the pledge of allegiance since moving to Canada. I miss our national anthem even though I have no idea what it means. The Canadian national anthem is nice though. But Canadians don’t put their hand over their heart while they do either their pledge or their anthem and I miss that.

Steve, Canuck allegiance pledge was the rather simple “I salute the flag, the emblem of my country; to her I pledge my love and loyalty” (I remember saying this weekly 1971-1975 in Calgary–when Canada was NOT technically my country, as I had not applied to naturalise), which is probably the most portable flag-pledge in existence.

Oh Calvin, Calvin, Calvin. When they are that old and have tenure you really shouldn’t mess with them. They’ve already dealt with you a thousand, thousand times.

Calvin, there are times when you shouldn’t let your parody gene run amuck.

Calvin’s off to a good start. I wonder if there’ll be days when he doesn’t have detention. If there are, you can probably count them all on one hand.

BC13

Those days are Saturdays, Sundays, Holidays & Sick days!

As I recall, it was all the kids who caused trouble who had to stay inside for lunch/recess and do extra class-work. I wonder if anyone realized that it was being cooped up inside in the first place that was making us unmanageable?

I also remember a version in a cartoon from oh so many years back, that went something like: “I pledge a legion to the frog of the delighted steaks of America, and to the public for Richard Stands, one naked individual, with liver tea and just kiss for all.”

Cute, bmonk.

poor calvin lol

‘Nuther good one, Hugh. Thanks!

I live and work in the same State…. ;-p

God shave the queen…

a day has not pass yet and your in trouble

dam he broke my record

Glad you like’m grazer, still got a lot left. I might make a mistake and post one I already did, but I’ll eventually get to them all.

In our school it was God save the King < so long ago > Back to Calvin A Pledge of Allegiance is good dont matter the words

Hugh B. Hayve- Love the animated strip. The two on this page our my favorites so far. I remember in third grade they had to send the flag in our classroom out to be cleaned. They made us stand up and say the pledge to the wall where the flag usually hung for a week. Day two one of the boys started in with his own rendition, We pledge allegiance to the wall of our classroom where our flag used to be feeling fools because the principal said we had to one spot under the ceiling from where it used to stand looking dirty with spots and all! I thought she’d sent the boy to the principal’s office but the teacher was covering her mouth and making squeaking sounds as she tried to muffle an explosive laugh. She then thanked George (our class clown) and she said now we’ll say it the right way. We got to say it George’s way the next day and then had to say it the correct way the rest of the time. It was one of those times you never forget!

Haha, fun story, Dino. I like the way C&H nudges old fun memories for us old kids.

Calvin, translate hat into espanol!

What? That’s not how it goes?

I don’t think dragging kids by the arm when they have to go to the principals office is legal anymore…

Hey, Hugh! I was getting ready to ask if you have one with Hobbes pouncing on Calvin!

In third grade, I said it like this:

I pledge allegiance to the city of Los Angeles, and to the smog under which it stands. One city, under smog, invisible, with tear drops and cough drops for all.

lol

Hey, like how many times have we sang the wrong lyrics to a song and then finally find the right ones and feel..oops. I kinda like Calvin’s version. The last panel does bring back some of my own old memories.

..One nation, Under GOD…

settle in, Calvin…

When the school year started after a year of renovating the school, there were no flags yet. The televisions were already there, hanging from the wall, with the fixture for holding the flag next to it. Our “Writing for College” teacher changed the pledge of allegiance to “I pledge allegiance to the television …”

From MAD, a product-filled pledge of allegiance: iPod Allegra, Tootsie Fab, Fuji United Franco-American. Banana Republic, Ford Chiclets Vans, One Nathan’s, Wonder Bod, Disney Vagisil, Wisk Listerine Ban Jergens Hormel.