Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 08, 2009

She’s not easy, Calvin…

It was worth a shot.

Good try Calvin. I remember being on both ends of that action in high school. Good in math and English, lousy in French and chemistry.

At least question number one is done. Great !

You can’t fool Susie, fool.

The math homework was certainly tricker than Calvin.

How insulting, calvin.

Really Calvin, Susie knows you all too well!

Calvin, you have to be sneaky.

I did great in Science in school but struggled through all Math but Physics class which made perfect sense.

C’mon Calvin, you can do better than that. This just isn’t adding up!

Math? Physics? Chemistry? Other sciences? English? French? Loved them all and many more. (So I was the asked, not the asker.)

The only courses that threw me off in any major way were certain kinds of phys. ed., shop and (until I hit my stride) drafting. But it took me until well into adulthood to discover a class that I absolutely LOATHED: accounting! :))

I find this all the funnier - and wonderfully explainable - thanks to having learned some Jungian typology. I have a feeling Calvin is going to loathe anything like accounting too.

Very Clever!! :) Calvin will do wonderfully well in the corporate world! Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V are after all the most used shortcut keys!!

That was weak Calvin and insulting to Susie. Mrs. Wormwood will deal with you shortly.

jrbj, u gotta lrn that modrn comedy is mor often than not, insulting or making fun of people

thats definatlysomething i wuldv dun i barely do my homewrk @ all anyway

Johanan

Accounting, undergrad..My professor said I would go to prison

Accounting, grad..My professor said I would run a successful company.

Same “accepted” accounting methods

Calvin should be my CEO

You just know its’s gonn be a good one when it starts… “Hey Suzie…”

Miss Wormwood!

Susan001: Yeah, I know. ENFP Calvin and INTJ Susie. Mutual Pedagogues. Voted the Couple Most Likely to Take Over the World in their senior yearbook in high school.

Both of them are brilliant, just in different ways. Calvin just needs to gain some focus: typical ENFP stumbling block.

(This man came up with the terms describing relationships between Jungian personality types, such as Pedagogues:)

http://www.keirsey.com/

Lewreader: Calvin might well make a great CEO (take that as you will), but I still think he’d make a lousy accountant (ditto)! If he were the opposite, a budding ISTJ, it would be different. As it is, he’s too imaginative and sensitive ever to love accounting. Managing his own company - that’s something else. ENFPs often do and do it well.

Whether Calvin would do any of the above ethically…that question transcends personality typing! :)

Well .. we atleast have one correct now .. rest to go ..

I’m surprised she didn’t see through that before giving him the first answer. She must be losing her touch.

haha! she’s too kind :P

Spaceman Spiff has no time for math homework.

I think I hated most all my classes through High School. When I got to University there were 2 classes I truly loathed: That was Statistics and Marketing. I loved my Accounting & Finance classes.

December 8, 1980… 29 years in a world without John.

Imagine there’s no Heaven It’s easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people Living for today

You may say that I’m a dreamer But I’m not the only one I hope someday you’ll join us And the world will be as one

Calvin is a lefty… : )

This is right on my soap-box… All I ever heard while growing up was:

“Get A Good Education So You Can Get A Good Job”

I retired from a good job with all the bells and whistles but what I wish someone would have told me when I was spending all my time smoking on the “Smoking Dock” at Davison High School in Davison, MI. ~~We were aloud to smoke in school as long as we were inside the yellow lines next to the schools loading dock~~

Get A Good Education So You Can Help Your Kids With Their Homework…

This would have served me better… I will never forget that empty feeling when I wasn’t able to help my children because they knew more then I did and they needed the help!

And now here I am 50 years old and having to use O2 at night because of COPD and already having had two heart attacks.

Smoking is everything, every bad thing that is… they say it is!

Why does Calvin need school? He already has an education. He only needs to pass the bar exam.

Susie lacks finesse. Instead of telling Calvin to drop dead, she should have simply turned it around: “What did you get, Calvin?”

Please show your work!

Hey gocomicsmember, what did you get for number 2?

I peeked at a smart girl’s answers on a True and False test once and I would have aced it except I got one line off when copying them down. To make flunking the test worse, the teacher noticed the distinct misallignment….

Math is NOT my subject, period!

Ah, Sussie… you should have just given him the wrong answer.

What makes this all the sillier is that you just know these two are gonna be going to the prom together, and Susie will be so glad Calvin didn’t drop dead.

@Johanan, I suspect you were an NFP too–besides accounting (which I carefully avoided), I also disliked typing, and spelling. All those fussy details, and no real, substantial rules or symbols to play with…

In high school algebra, geometry, trig, chemistry, physics, were great. But my favorites were the shop classes, always got straight As in those. English and Spanish I was OK at. Phys ed was a total disaster except gymnastics and swimming and those skills were only passable. We had to take two units of phys ed in Jr College, so I took golf for one and on a dare took “body development” (pumping iron on a universal machine and running around the track). I gained 10 pounds of muscle in 10 weeks and my mother complained that the grocery bill doubled!

The kid definitely has management potential!

“Roses are red; Violets are blue. I copied your test and I FLUNKED TOO!!”

the girl who sat next to me in 10th grade math used to give me the answers but i think it was because her brother told her i liked her (which i actually did)

He seemed so sincere! That’s why Susie fell for it, but when will she ever learn…once a Calvin, always a Calvin.

By the way, I’ve had students copy even the NAME of the other student!

Calvin, is it that hard?

I refused to cheat But some times I did fib

Calvin is a future corporate executive. Knows how to use the talented.

“Drop dead, Calvin” is not as bad as “I hope he/she burns in hell!” That’s the worst thing you can say to/about anyone.

neat idea sport!

Reminds me of when I was in school, I was only allowed to give out 14% of the answers though :/