Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 09, 2009

LOL! Just so Calvin!

Don’t make a mountain out of an anthill (or a molehill, either), Calvin! “Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:” Proverbs 6:6

Just so Calvin, and (too often) just so me and so many of our fellow ENFPs! “There’s got to be an easier way”, that’s our motto! :))

I am having an issue here… What does the term “work ethic” refer to?

It means the values of hard work instilled or held by an employee.

Those ants have more energy in them than the energizer bunny has in its battery.

I can’t relate…I’m an ISTJ.

Whenever I get the urge to work like that I lie down until it goes away.

Hobbes does not have anything to say because it’s too much work!

Work ethic is a set of values based on hard work and diligence.

I had an aunt like that once.

I wish I had the time Calvin has…

Jerome K Jerome in ‘Three Men in a Boat (to Say Nothing of the Dog)’ :

“It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

You cannot give me too much work; to accumulate work has almost become a passion with me: my study is so full of it now, that there is hardly an inch of room for any more. I shall have to throw out a wing soon.

And I am careful of my work, too. Why, some of the work that I have by me now has been in my possession for years and years, and there isn’t a finger-mark on it. I take a great pride in my work; I take it down now and then and dust it. No man keeps his work in a better state of preservation than I do.

But, though I crave for work, I still like to be fair. I do not ask for more than my proper share.

But I get it without asking for it - at least, so it appears to me - and this worries me. ”

You cant put it better than that, can you !

I used to be like that…. Now every day is a Saturday. It’s better now.

That’s so like me… LOL..!!

@vibjyor : ROFL… well said… !!!

Work ethic!

No surprises there, Calvin.

Calvin, what no magnifying glass?

Ants have yet to build a power plant…I mean, it could be very small, but built to their scale. I’ve been in my boat up on sandbars in the river, and those isolated ants haven’t built one either. Can you imagine what would happen if they were able to pull it off? Little wires strung everywhere, etc.

“Woodeye” said every day was Saturday. Did you know that there’s no such astronomical event we call a Saturday? Plainly put, it’s on the calendar which is why we perceive it, but it doesn’t actually exist. The sun merely rises once again. Oh well, it helps TV programming.

Uh, if the sun rises once again, by definition there’s an astronomical event involved: the one that defines the solar day.

It’s the time at which the count of days begins and the place at which the calendar day begins which are established by fiat. However, these too have their roots in an historical astronomical event, specifically, the alignment of the sun, moon and earth at a particular astronomical new moon. So “fiat” goes rather deeper than mere human choice here.

vibjyor: Thank you, little butterfly.

When I was a kid we lived at the edge of a woods and there were several ant hills out there. I used to watch them do their ant things and was fascinated by their discipline and how highly organized they were. I was also envious of them because of their strength to size ratio. [exoskeletons have a big advantage.] But work ethic? I think not. They do what they do out of instinct because they have to. About the closest “human” things I could associate with ants would be the Borg from Star Trek Generations.

two things. a lit firecracker inserted into the ant hill, and then a coffee can firmly pressed into the earth over the hill….

presto, ant hiroshima!

ok that was just bad…

vibjyor? why not vibgyor? was that taken? just wondering.

i used to have a work ethic like that , but left it in my locker when i retired

I really would expect that comment from Andy Capp.

work smarter, not harder

I love Calvin: so brutally honest with himself.

Yeah no sense in working hard and doing 80% of the work, but not get paid 80% more than the slackers around you.

Small correction: a worker ant is always a she, not a he. males are only good for mating with young queens and then they die.

kreole said, about 8 hours ago

“Did you know that there’s no such astronomical event we call a Saturday? Plainly put, it’s on the calendar which is why we perceive it, but it doesn’t actually exist. The sun merely rises once again. Oh well, it helps TV programming.”

Even the separate days are an artifact of your position on the Earth. Seen as a whole, there is only one eternal day, which keeps progressing around the planet.

“Saturday” exists, as much as anything in human culture exists. And, since I survive only with the help of human culture, I certainly hope that exists, and continues to do so.

rac0308 said, about 2 hours ago

work smarter, not harder

that’s what my old supervisor used to say, but still did things the old way

Calvin will make a fine State worker. What?? j/k

I can’t identify with it either.

Sit and watch ants? Yes, I do.

As I sit and watch television, I watch them crawl over my feet and up my leg. -grrrr-

calvin and hobbes is like garfield, just to bad c+bs ended. it’s a classic, always and forever. leave it to THIS comic strip to have a twist that not a lot of people can think of.

rdandrearocha: Sounds good to me. You know any young queens?

Calvin and Hobbes watching ants doing what they are programed to do I could belong to that kind fan club or group Are refreshments aloud ?

Sadly, it seems the idea of a work ethic is rapidly disappearing. I can’t stand to work with most of my peers, prefer working with the older set (late thirties and older seems to be good). Of course, you can’t always count on them either…

I don’t like to preach, but since it was brought up…

God sanctified (set apart) the seventh day (Saturday, or the Sabbath), and instructed us to keep it holy.

One thought goes on to the next…

to MisngNOLA :

I made a mistake while taking the name, but decided to keep it since I felt it was easier on the tongue.

No Life Lessons here for our boy Calvin.