Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 16, 2009

I think it’s pretty clever, myself.

Calvin’s a tough act to follow for show and tell in that classroom!

Depends on what one wants to accomplish, I suppose, although his paper on the Time-Traveling Tiger will stand in the School Hall of Fame for generations. :)

Frum the eighth grade on I signed (forged) my mother’s signature on all skool correspondence! Calvin will catch on soon.

I sure hope the teacher gave him an “A” for vivid imagination!

He’s got my vote!

That sure as heck beats, “This is my favourite dolly. Her name is Elvira. She wets and cries. My Auntie gave her to me.”

Calvin’s got hootspa!

Best show and tell that I’ve seen!

Space alien, not speck alien?

Pity theres no marks for creativity/imagination!!!!!

They’ll all regret it when he becomes President one day…!!

@cryptomaniac .. oh.. they’ll regret for sure .. ;-)

Yes, and he has chutzpah also!

Susie, take Calvin home, would you please?

Calvin and Hobbs in 2012. Change you can believe in.

Does anyone know the element “zarnium” ?? I looked it up in Mendeljew’s table, but I couldn’t find it. Has Calvin recently discovered it ?

Zarnium is a rare element discovered by spaceman Spiff on one of his many travels, so far knowledge of it has not spread very much, so is not included on many of the periodic tables found on this insignificant planet.

Wonder if Calvin wasn’t on Mars last week as he thought, but traveled through a wormhole to an alternative universe, where ‘zarnium’ is as common as dirt. Smuggled a pocketful back with him just in time to coat that alien-keeper.

Makes me wonder how big of a yard does Calvin’s parents have? My parents have a fairly big one that I have to use a riding lawnmower on and if I use a push would take far too long. They live in the city does Calvin’s parents live in the country where it’s hilly?

Would have loved to see the rest of his presentation.. :)

we lived in the hilly part of Tulsa and had play space behind the houses accress the street…it was wonderful with trees, dirt, grass and a spot for the boys to dig a cave, no girls allowed. best kid neighborhood in town.

Oh the imagination & inventiveness of youth! What a wonderful thing it is as truley shown in C&H.

I was so lucky that my boy’s each had the same teacher who always took into consideration creativity and would give credit as along as they weren’t just doing it to be a smart alec. She had a knack for knowing the difference. She once told me that the Harry Chapin song “Flowers Are Red” song showed her what kind of teacher she wanted to be.

SHOUT OUT to Ms. Cannon

Just in case you’d like to read those lyrics I think they made me a better mom too… smile

The little boy went first day of school He got some crayons and started to draw He put colors all over the paper For colors was what he saw And the teacher said.. What you doin’ young man I’m paintin’ flowers he said She said… It’s not the time for art young man And anyway flowers are green and red There’s a time for everything young man And a way it should be done You’ve got to show concern for everyone else For you’re not the only one

And she said… Flowers are red young man Green leaves are green There’s no need to see flowers any other way Than they way they always have been seen

But the little boy said… There are so many colors in the rainbow So many colors in the morning sun So many colors in the flower and I see every one

Well the teacher said.. You’re sassy There’s ways that things should be And you’ll paint flowers the way they are So repeat after me…..

And she said… Flowers are red young man Green leaves are green There’s no need to see flowers any other way Than they way they always have been seen

But the little boy said… There are so many colors in the rainbow So many colors in the morning sun So many colors in the flower and I see every one

The teacher put him in a corner She said.. It’s for your own good.. And you won’t come out ‘til you get it right And are responding like you should Well finally he got lonely Frightened thoughts filled his head And he went up to the teacher And this is what he said.. and he said

Flowers are red, green leaves are green There’s no need to see flowers any other way Than the way they always have been seen

Time went by like it always does And they moved to another town And the little boy went to another school And this is what he found The teacher there was smilin’ She said…Painting should be fun And there are so many colors in a flower So let’s use every one

But that little boy painted flowers In neat rows of green and red And when the teacher asked him why This is what he said.. and he said

Flowers are red, green leaves are green There’s no need to see flowers any other way Than the way they always have been seen.

But there still must be a way to have our children say …

There are so many colors in the rainbow So many colors in the morning sun So many colors in the flower and I see every one

He gets an “A” for creativity. Hohoho!

That sounds like a great song. I never heard it before. Gotta go find this one on you tube, I hope it’s there.

WoodEye said, about 8 hours ago

“Frum the eighth grade on I signed (forged) my mother’s signature on all skool correspondence! Calvin will catch on soon.”

Maybe you should have at least had her sign it for typing class… Unless yor like me and you leurned how to type at the school of hard… tappity tap tap knocks like I did?

Hey, Woody, Don let Paul brig you doun my fren.

Nice to see those lyrics…I cried the first time I heard him sing that song….As a teacher, though, I’d probably cry if I saw Calvin every day. I have had a few of them, and at the high school level, they are even more creative!

Wow! A week ago and Calvin was crying for his mommy when he and Hobbes saw a martian and today he actually brings an alien to class. I have to say I LOVED todays strip. And I really enjoyed the lyrics to the song Ldywldkat shared with us, thanks!

Woody: I tried that once in 9th grade. I wasn’t very good at it with predictable results. Never did it again.

In Sunday School the children were told the story of how Lot was warned to flee the wicked city of Sodom with his family, but not to look back under any circumstances. The teacher then continued, “but Lot’s wife looked back and turned into a pillar of salt.” “That’s nothing,” said Joey. “My mom was driving downtown last week. She looked back and turned into a telephone pole.”

[I’ll bet a breathalizer test would have shown that her Zarnium level was over the legal limit.]

gee the best thing that i took for show and tell was my dog, they made me take him home : - (

WoodEye I take it you are still in SCHOOL, learning how to spell.

BC13 Around here we try not to notice the little things like every word spelled perfectly because, “but for the grace of God, ‘ere I go”. We all make grammatical mistakes every day of the year. What is most important on this board is what you have to say, what it says to us, and what it says about the person saying it. From your post I see you as an “education snob”. I hope I am totally incorrect.

Have a great day!

I am Stinky of Borg. Prepare to be fumigated.

I had a “creative” friend in grade school. He was a smart alec. Formost though he was smart. 3rd grade we would ride the swings on our bellies a’la superman. Under the swings are those bowls in the dirt from years of kids swinging and dragging their feet to stop. Charlie was swinging on his stomach and slapping his hands in the dirt on the back swing which made a little dust cloud kick up. The teacher on duty yelled at him to “stop playing in the dirt”! Charlie’s reply: “It’s not dirt, it’s dehydrated mud!” He got to stand on-line the rest of recess for his creative response.

He should have coated that bag with unobtanium (Ub) rather than Zarnium (Zr)…

Hea Wood Eye. Do you really think that fooled the teacher?

OK, here we go…. I wrote.

Frum the eighth grade on I signed (forged) my mother’s signature on all skool correspondence! Calvin will catch on soon.

SOME of you failed to see and appreciate the irony that I misspelled ‘from and school’ yet could get correspondence right. It was all meant as self deprecating humor…. get it?

Brother J - As for fooling the teacher. I started the forgery when we moved. The new teacher had no point of reference to compare signatures. Hence easy peazy, lemon squeezy!

WoodEye - Great move, wish I’d thought of it when we moved. Would have made high school so much easier!

Step One: Cut a hole in a bag Step Two: Put your junk in the bag Step Three: Open the bag

Who would have guessed that Calvin would grow up to be Justin Timberlake? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNk743EqMNk

WoodEye said, about 8 hours ago…

“Frum the eighth grade on I signed (forged) my mother’s signature on all skool correspondence! Calvin will catch on soon.”

Then I said: Maybe you should have at least had her sign it for typing class… Unless yor like me and you leurned how to type at the school of hard… tappity tap tap knocks like I did?

Then wood.. said: SOME of you failed to see and appreciate the irony that I misspelled ‘from and school’ yet could get correspondence right. It was all meant as self deprecating humor…. get it?

I wasn’t trying to diss… you or anyone I infact got it which was why I said… Unless yor.. ~your~ like me and leurned ~learned~… In fact I thought and still do think it was a clever play on words! To say nothing about how well it hit the point of the whole comic today.

You keeping knocking them out of the park WoodEye.

Across the aisle from the zarnium, of course.

Paul M - No offense taken. It’s good to see that so many people are paying attention.

man wouldn’t you have some interesting stories to tell at the dinner table if you were in calvin’s class.

That was funny.

A couple of youtube versions of the ‘Flowers are Red’ song each version may apeal to different people.

Thnx Ldywldkat for bringing these us lyrics :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noVC5Jt2Gu8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_AvXnBv8OI&feature=related

He’ll be a great writer one day.

Reminds me of the finger in the box with cotton and covered in ketchup. I got to do it once and I got a cool squeal from a friend when she opened the box. I sent my son to private school for two years because they tried to take away his creativity in elementary school. He’s now studying to be an Art teacher while taking care of his family.

I seriously wonder what was wrong this time. It was just a puppet!