… Being from Deming, NM. a town that has been touched by a school shooting and death I find it helps to keep in mind this comes from a time when as a Nation we were unaware that sirens at noon and schools would bring back such dark memories. So Calvin it would be my guess whatever it was it fails in comparison to what we see in our schools today?
I accidentally set off the fire alarms at a university library tower, and headed back to my study carrel pretending that I was doing research. I had opened the wrong door to the stairwell because I just wanted a smoke. I still feel guilty, almost 40 years later.
Yukoner said: ”Waterson’s genius is that he can trigger our imagination to run wild while never having to confirm or deny.”
Well said and so true. Trying to fill in the blanks is fun.
(–I’m thinking the incident had something to do with Spaceman Spiff and the overhead sprinkler system.)
I used to work in a residence for special needs adults. The one guy i worked with loved firetrucks. He loved the lights, the sirens, and the firemen. Once in a while he’d get a tickle on his butt to pull the fire alarm, it was wired to an automatic dialer. He’d get excited because once the alarm was pulled, we’d have to evacuate the building, regardless if it was a real fire, and go out and watch the firetrucks come. After so many times of being billed for false alarm responses by the city the agency i worked for moved the pull station up higher on the wall where he couldn’t reach it.
My opinion would be the famed “noodle incident” since it would fit in chronologically with the story; however, we don’t get to find out, sadly enough. Aliens and charcoal fill tomorrow’s C&H comic if i recall correctly
Not the noodle incident, I believe, but how would we know either way? Bill’s genius was to point to the outrageous, and leave it to the reader to fill in the gaps. Which we do so much more imaginatively for the lack of details.
Pulling a fire alarm would be pretty unimaginative “trouble” for a kid as creative as Calvin. I can think of lots of more interesting things that many of our “modern” school districts would probably go to “RED ALERT” about…
– Brought transmogrifier “gun” to school (zero tolerance)
– Kissed Susy (Sexual Harrassment).
– Used his time machine to prove “theory” of evolution. (enraging creationist school districts)
– Suggested that he & Hobbes should be allowed to marry. (enraging “traditional family” advocates.)
– Caught reading Catcher in the Rye or Lord of the Flies or any number of other frequently banned books.
– Asked when Sex Ed would be offered in school (enraging the “abstinence” crowd)
– Voicing his opinion that Sarah Palin is “retarded”
– Caught utilizing independent thought. (Rather than simply drinking the Kool-Aid and then regurgitating the thoughts, dogma and opinions of others.)
Yep. Throughout much of America, any one of those would probably require activation of the National Guard!
Take a look at the color strip that appears under today´s Calvin and Hobbes daily strip.
See the image in the far right, where they are making faces to the camera and Hobbes is giving horns to Calvin? That is the image you´ll see soon in a post stamp near you.
In the interests of ‘balance’. . more red alert scenarios (including the first two):
– Brought transmogrifier “gun” to school (zero tolerance)
– Kissed Susy (Sexual Harrassment).
– Used his time machine to prove “theory” of creation. (enraging evolutionist school districts)
– Suggested that he & Hobbes are different species & should never marry. (enraging “gay rights” advocates.)
– Caught reading the Bible or any number of other taboo books. (enraging the Christian haters that call themselves atheists)
– Asked when abstinence education would be offered in school (enraging the “sexual promiscuity” crowd)
– Voicing his opinion that Barack Obama is incompetent
– Caught utilizing independent, critical thinking. (Rather than simply drinking the Kool-Aid and then regurgitating the thoughts, marxist dogma and pc opinions of others.)
of course, most of that would not happen as few of those conditions/people were around or in the forefront when Watterson wrote this strip.
Why can’t we just keep the discourse to the comics . .
It couldn’t have been too serious since he’s here to walk home with Hobbes. If it had been very serious the police would have hauled him down to the police station and called in his parents and he may have been being hauled off to juvenile detention as we speak.
Even back in the day, his parents would have been called to come and get him, at the very least, and he would have been suspended for doing that.
Why would anyone who knows what they’re talking about continue to suggest that Calvin would ever kiss Susie? They HATE each other. It’s not repressed love, it’s HATE. They’re 6. 6 year old boys hate girls, and Susie has no tolerance for Calvin. They remain 6. They never grow up, so there is no some day either. She’d be lucky if he took the time to offer her some of his maggot, sewage sandwich. That’s the way this goes.
The rest of that hateful, politically juvenile comment is also an example of profound lack of comprehension, and insensitivity of the left, who always demand sensitivity from others, and it also got you flagged as inappropriate, spiderlegs.
@Vonnegut, I’m guessing that who are the type that likes to just walk up to a bear and poke it with a stick? LOL. No worries, I think I get you! Please keep discoursing. It’s nice to read posts more clever than “gee, that’s funny!” and “my brat does that too!”
@midiranger, It’s wildly unfair to characterize “atheists” as “christian haters”. Atheists are generally tolerant, happy, loving folks who don’t feel threatened by Christians or their beliefs. However, as your comment suggests, a great many Christians are very threatened by the very existence of athiests, which helps explain their obsessive need to constantly proselytize and recruit in order to calm their fears.
And what odd community do you live in that has a “pro-promiscuity” crowd? That’s like politicians who tout being against crime. Is there anyone running on the pro-crime ticket?
mrslukeskywalker, calvin and susie do not hate each other. you obviously dont remember the dead flowers he gave her on valentines? look at that strip,they are in love. as far as the sirens, he was probably on top of the school trying to fly.( he had his cape and helmet )
MrsLS seems to be a lot more perceptive and helpful in commenting on comics than on the comments to them!
I’ll bet that’s because the comics are rarely as inflammatory as the commenters (and I suspect MrsLS, like many people, would consider it a waste of time to comment on or even read Boondocks).
Problem is, the only one I saw advocating for “hate” (for Calvin, at least) or even making a hateful comment is also the first one to mention hate - i.e. MrsLS. I happen to agree with beenthere that hate is, in fact, frustrated attraction or fondness. (The opposite of love is uncaring, not passionate hate.)
I’ll accept that it would be better if people keep their politics out of these comments … but only because just about any political belief these days is considered “hate” by whatever fat segment of the population disagrees with it. It’s that whole culture, not just one of those political expressions, that’s hopelessly “juvenile”.
Calvin is not the place for anything quite that juvenile. Let “the child [be] father to the man” here!
i think today’s strip is the noodle incident. here are my reasons why: if you get the complete calvin and hobbes you’ll notice that a mention of the ‘salamander incident’ was before this strip, also all the noodle incident mentions have come after this strip.
here is my theory of the incident: (i am not saying it’s true but it’s a hunch) during lunch hour calvin chose this moment to leave school. the cafeteria was surving noodles for lunch, the noodles could have been very hot while cooking, at the right time calvin ran off and decided to make a break for it through the cafeteria kitchen, in the process ms. wormwood chased after him and he accidentally knocked over the boiling noodles, they might have landed on and burned ms. wormwood. that would be why the sirens would come for an ambulance. hobbes mentioned that it was around noon and around noon is lunch-time which fits my theory.
At our last Class Reunion one of the quiet girls in our class confessed to me and a couple others that she was the one that called in the bomb alert at our school. I wanted to swat her because I was in gym class in shorts, t-shirt, and sneakers and then standing in the snow freezing to death. We weren’t allowed to get on our regular clothes or even grab a jacket and we were out there for almost a hour. She just wanted to miss a test she hadn’t studied for. What a selfish thing to do!
I found your post Vonnegut to be amusing. It was creative and provocative. Maybe Calvin doesn’t love Susie but he sure does like her a lot. I remember Hobbes insinuating this in a few strips. I find it charming!
Calling in the bomb threat is more than selfish, it could have been dangerous. Diverting of emergency resources is not in the least amusing when someone might actually not get needed help (pretty sure it’s illegal too).
According to my mother (who remembers it better than I do because I don’t remember it at all given that I was probably only about 5 years old), there was a little boy in my kindergarten class that I talked about incessantly and called my “boyfriend”. She said that I was madly “in love” with him and that I planned on marrying him someday!!!!! I didn’t, of course, but still … it’s obvious that I liked little boys when I was even younger than Susie! While I don’t remember anything about my great kindergarten “love story”, it’s highly doubtful that he was anything like Calvin because I couldn’t have gotten past all his grossed-out “sandwiches” any more than Susie could!
Aarvark359 - agreed. REAL atheists are not generally Christian haters, nor are Christianas ‘threatened’ by genuine athiests. I was referring to the plethora of Christian haters that like to call themselves atheists, sullying the name. Those that seek out Bible and Christian themed boards and attack everything Christian. They obviously feel threatened by religion in general and Christianity in particular. Like most of the hard leftists I’ve run across they seem so insecure in their beliefs they HAVE to convince everyone who disagrees with them that they’re wrong. The genuine, honest atheists I’ve met felt no such compulsion. They were truly live and let live folk.
margueritem almost 15 years ago
Uh-oh……
rentier almost 15 years ago
It’s great to have a best friend to talk about everything! It relieves!
carmy almost 15 years ago
We’ll just have to wait for the 6:00 news then.
MontanaLady almost 15 years ago
I’ve got a bad feeling about this…..
Praxsis almost 15 years ago
Sounds like FIRE ALARM issues….LOL
pineapplehoney almost 15 years ago
It’s ok Calvin Everybody gets into trouble…..(sometimes, unlike you). It may not have been your fault! Maybe you were just being curious!
COWBOY7 almost 15 years ago
Maybe the event is on a rerun of “Cops”. Of course Hobbes’ and Calvin’s faces would be blurred out.
sjoujke almost 15 years ago
Not that blurring faces would disguise Hobbes. The stripes would be a dead give-away.
Trainwreck_1 almost 15 years ago
… Being from Deming, NM. a town that has been touched by a school shooting and death I find it helps to keep in mind this comes from a time when as a Nation we were unaware that sirens at noon and schools would bring back such dark memories. So Calvin it would be my guess whatever it was it fails in comparison to what we see in our schools today?
Yukoner almost 15 years ago
Waterson’s genius is that he can trigger our imagination to run wild while never having to confirm or deny.
kpreethy almost 15 years ago
well hobbes is a imaginary thing so it is hard for him to understand….!!
pintcape almost 15 years ago
what did you do calvin?surprised that you’re not locked in your room for ten years,lol.
Opus Croakus almost 15 years ago
Must have been the infamous “salamander incident”.
jrbj almost 15 years ago
Well, Calvin! Sirens and everything. It sounds like one of the greater moments in your life. Good going Bubba.
Dkram almost 15 years ago
Had a kid call in a bomb scare when I was in high school. He took some time off.
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Ooops! Premium Member almost 15 years ago
Well, they really shouldn’t have left the science lab unattended. What did they expect?
pamlicorat almost 15 years ago
Brake fluid and clorox when mixed together makes smoke and lots of it.
ejmMissouri almost 15 years ago
Well he did say he was going to go for the gusto yesterday.
rdh288 almost 15 years ago
I don’t know if this was before or after, but it if it was earlier than the others in the story, maybe this is the noodle incident!
Ursula A Kehoe Premium Member almost 15 years ago
I accidentally set off the fire alarms at a university library tower, and headed back to my study carrel pretending that I was doing research. I had opened the wrong door to the stairwell because I just wanted a smoke. I still feel guilty, almost 40 years later.
wicky almost 15 years ago
Film at eleven.
ShaZamKaPow almost 15 years ago
This is one of my favorite strips!
GROG Premium Member almost 15 years ago
I agree with Praxsis. I think he set off the fire alarm.
lazygrazer almost 15 years ago
Yukoner said: ”Waterson’s genius is that he can trigger our imagination to run wild while never having to confirm or deny.”
Well said and so true. Trying to fill in the blanks is fun. (–I’m thinking the incident had something to do with Spaceman Spiff and the overhead sprinkler system.)
cleokaya almost 15 years ago
The sirens were all screaming because of Calvin’s scheming.
Me_Again almost 15 years ago
Applause for Calvin!!!
tonytiger29 almost 15 years ago
I used to work in a residence for special needs adults. The one guy i worked with loved firetrucks. He loved the lights, the sirens, and the firemen. Once in a while he’d get a tickle on his butt to pull the fire alarm, it was wired to an automatic dialer. He’d get excited because once the alarm was pulled, we’d have to evacuate the building, regardless if it was a real fire, and go out and watch the firetrucks come. After so many times of being billed for false alarm responses by the city the agency i worked for moved the pull station up higher on the wall where he couldn’t reach it.
bald almost 15 years ago
you know calvin, if it was you who pulled that fire alarm, they used to put a dye on the alarm handle that would show up under black light
Captain_Commando almost 15 years ago
Is it illegal to wear costumes at school these days? (see previous strip http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2010/02/10/)
rw1h almost 15 years ago
Smack on, Yukoner!!!
ninmas almost 15 years ago
everyone, this is the noodle incident. i believe it has to do with going for the gusto, yesterday.
Spoons106 almost 15 years ago
i love Calvin and Hobbes. they are, have been, and will be my all-time favorite comics
petrovthiessen almost 15 years ago
My opinion would be the famed “noodle incident” since it would fit in chronologically with the story; however, we don’t get to find out, sadly enough. Aliens and charcoal fill tomorrow’s C&H comic if i recall correctly
bmonk almost 15 years ago
Not the noodle incident, I believe, but how would we know either way? Bill’s genius was to point to the outrageous, and leave it to the reader to fill in the gaps. Which we do so much more imaginatively for the lack of details.
mexdr1958 almost 15 years ago
It could be the noodle incident, it could be the salamander incident, it could be the fire alarm incident, it could be…..
Reading everybody´s input makes the strip come to life with a vengeance, and I enjoy the comments as much as the strip itself.
You guys rock!!
Vonnegut almost 15 years ago
Pulling a fire alarm would be pretty unimaginative “trouble” for a kid as creative as Calvin. I can think of lots of more interesting things that many of our “modern” school districts would probably go to “RED ALERT” about…
– Brought transmogrifier “gun” to school (zero tolerance) – Kissed Susy (Sexual Harrassment). – Used his time machine to prove “theory” of evolution. (enraging creationist school districts) – Suggested that he & Hobbes should be allowed to marry. (enraging “traditional family” advocates.) – Caught reading Catcher in the Rye or Lord of the Flies or any number of other frequently banned books. – Asked when Sex Ed would be offered in school (enraging the “abstinence” crowd) – Voicing his opinion that Sarah Palin is “retarded” – Caught utilizing independent thought. (Rather than simply drinking the Kool-Aid and then regurgitating the thoughts, dogma and opinions of others.)
Yep. Throughout much of America, any one of those would probably require activation of the National Guard!
mexdr1958 almost 15 years ago
Take a look at the color strip that appears under today´s Calvin and Hobbes daily strip.
See the image in the far right, where they are making faces to the camera and Hobbes is giving horns to Calvin? That is the image you´ll see soon in a post stamp near you.
ratlum almost 15 years ago
What sirens
midiranger almost 15 years ago
In the interests of ‘balance’. . more red alert scenarios (including the first two):
– Brought transmogrifier “gun” to school (zero tolerance) – Kissed Susy (Sexual Harrassment). – Used his time machine to prove “theory” of creation. (enraging evolutionist school districts) – Suggested that he & Hobbes are different species & should never marry. (enraging “gay rights” advocates.) – Caught reading the Bible or any number of other taboo books. (enraging the Christian haters that call themselves atheists) – Asked when abstinence education would be offered in school (enraging the “sexual promiscuity” crowd) – Voicing his opinion that Barack Obama is incompetent – Caught utilizing independent, critical thinking. (Rather than simply drinking the Kool-Aid and then regurgitating the thoughts, marxist dogma and pc opinions of others.)
of course, most of that would not happen as few of those conditions/people were around or in the forefront when Watterson wrote this strip.
Why can’t we just keep the discourse to the comics . .
alondra almost 15 years ago
It couldn’t have been too serious since he’s here to walk home with Hobbes. If it had been very serious the police would have hauled him down to the police station and called in his parents and he may have been being hauled off to juvenile detention as we speak.
mrslukeskywalker almost 15 years ago
Even back in the day, his parents would have been called to come and get him, at the very least, and he would have been suspended for doing that.
Why would anyone who knows what they’re talking about continue to suggest that Calvin would ever kiss Susie? They HATE each other. It’s not repressed love, it’s HATE. They’re 6. 6 year old boys hate girls, and Susie has no tolerance for Calvin. They remain 6. They never grow up, so there is no some day either. She’d be lucky if he took the time to offer her some of his maggot, sewage sandwich. That’s the way this goes.
The rest of that hateful, politically juvenile comment is also an example of profound lack of comprehension, and insensitivity of the left, who always demand sensitivity from others, and it also got you flagged as inappropriate, spiderlegs.
Aardvark359 almost 15 years ago
@Vonnegut, I’m guessing that who are the type that likes to just walk up to a bear and poke it with a stick? LOL. No worries, I think I get you! Please keep discoursing. It’s nice to read posts more clever than “gee, that’s funny!” and “my brat does that too!”
@midiranger, It’s wildly unfair to characterize “atheists” as “christian haters”. Atheists are generally tolerant, happy, loving folks who don’t feel threatened by Christians or their beliefs. However, as your comment suggests, a great many Christians are very threatened by the very existence of athiests, which helps explain their obsessive need to constantly proselytize and recruit in order to calm their fears.
And what odd community do you live in that has a “pro-promiscuity” crowd? That’s like politicians who tout being against crime. Is there anyone running on the pro-crime ticket?
Hello there Mr. Bear! poke. poke. poke.
artybee almost 15 years ago
Vonnegut: Colbert deserves a medal for that one.
beentheredonethat almost 15 years ago
mrslukeskywalker, calvin and susie do not hate each other. you obviously dont remember the dead flowers he gave her on valentines? look at that strip,they are in love. as far as the sirens, he was probably on top of the school trying to fly.( he had his cape and helmet )
Vonnegut almost 15 years ago
Parody is the sincerest form of Flattery.
mrslukeskywalker almost 15 years ago
They are NOT in love.
avonsalis almost 15 years ago
MrsLS seems to be a lot more perceptive and helpful in commenting on comics than on the comments to them! I’ll bet that’s because the comics are rarely as inflammatory as the commenters (and I suspect MrsLS, like many people, would consider it a waste of time to comment on or even read Boondocks).
Problem is, the only one I saw advocating for “hate” (for Calvin, at least) or even making a hateful comment is also the first one to mention hate - i.e. MrsLS. I happen to agree with beenthere that hate is, in fact, frustrated attraction or fondness. (The opposite of love is uncaring, not passionate hate.)
I’ll accept that it would be better if people keep their politics out of these comments … but only because just about any political belief these days is considered “hate” by whatever fat segment of the population disagrees with it. It’s that whole culture, not just one of those political expressions, that’s hopelessly “juvenile”. Calvin is not the place for anything quite that juvenile. Let “the child [be] father to the man” here!
Stede_Bonnet almost 15 years ago
When I was 6, I would have said that I didn’t like girls if asked. And I admit that I often behaved very badly toward some of the little girls I knew.
Yep. You guessed it. I WAS IN LOVE WITH EVERY ONE!
(and @beentheredonethat – on the roof ready to fly? That’s the best guess all day! Good job!)
ninmas almost 15 years ago
i think today’s strip is the noodle incident. here are my reasons why: if you get the complete calvin and hobbes you’ll notice that a mention of the ‘salamander incident’ was before this strip, also all the noodle incident mentions have come after this strip.
here is my theory of the incident: (i am not saying it’s true but it’s a hunch) during lunch hour calvin chose this moment to leave school. the cafeteria was surving noodles for lunch, the noodles could have been very hot while cooking, at the right time calvin ran off and decided to make a break for it through the cafeteria kitchen, in the process ms. wormwood chased after him and he accidentally knocked over the boiling noodles, they might have landed on and burned ms. wormwood. that would be why the sirens would come for an ambulance. hobbes mentioned that it was around noon and around noon is lunch-time which fits my theory.
that is my noodle incident theory.
Dino-1 almost 15 years ago
At our last Class Reunion one of the quiet girls in our class confessed to me and a couple others that she was the one that called in the bomb alert at our school. I wanted to swat her because I was in gym class in shorts, t-shirt, and sneakers and then standing in the snow freezing to death. We weren’t allowed to get on our regular clothes or even grab a jacket and we were out there for almost a hour. She just wanted to miss a test she hadn’t studied for. What a selfish thing to do!
BigHug almost 15 years ago
I found your post Vonnegut to be amusing. It was creative and provocative. Maybe Calvin doesn’t love Susie but he sure does like her a lot. I remember Hobbes insinuating this in a few strips. I find it charming!
Ooops! Premium Member almost 15 years ago
Baffling, simply baffling.
Calling in the bomb threat is more than selfish, it could have been dangerous. Diverting of emergency resources is not in the least amusing when someone might actually not get needed help (pretty sure it’s illegal too).
Gretchen's Mom almost 15 years ago
According to my mother (who remembers it better than I do because I don’t remember it at all given that I was probably only about 5 years old), there was a little boy in my kindergarten class that I talked about incessantly and called my “boyfriend”. She said that I was madly “in love” with him and that I planned on marrying him someday!!!!! I didn’t, of course, but still … it’s obvious that I liked little boys when I was even younger than Susie! While I don’t remember anything about my great kindergarten “love story”, it’s highly doubtful that he was anything like Calvin because I couldn’t have gotten past all his grossed-out “sandwiches” any more than Susie could!
midiranger almost 15 years ago
Aarvark359 - agreed. REAL atheists are not generally Christian haters, nor are Christianas ‘threatened’ by genuine athiests. I was referring to the plethora of Christian haters that like to call themselves atheists, sullying the name. Those that seek out Bible and Christian themed boards and attack everything Christian. They obviously feel threatened by religion in general and Christianity in particular. Like most of the hard leftists I’ve run across they seem so insecure in their beliefs they HAVE to convince everyone who disagrees with them that they’re wrong. The genuine, honest atheists I’ve met felt no such compulsion. They were truly live and let live folk.