Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 19, 2012

gloating solves everything

I hated going to school in the rain and hated going to work in the rain.

That’s a standard reaction to bad weather. I really don’t feel like leaving the house in rain like that.

I have always loved rain.It meant that it would be a quiet day on the farm. We couldn’t really do anything productive outdoors, all the animals would be quiet as well and the crops were watered. We had the fire going and stayed indoors and read..We lost the family farm due to drought.

You’ve got to love Calvin’s hat. It’s just perfect for wearing to the Gulag.

We never referred to our work place as “The Gulag”. For us it was always “The salt mines”.

Looks like Calvin is ready for a hurricane, good thing for Hobbes there’s no wind. Rain can be fun, especially when you don’t get much to start with. Where else do you think mud and puddles come from?

Don’t answer any of the above! We’ll have to run another campaign to bring you back!

;)

Ahh! A little Vapor-Rub here and a little Vapor-Rub there. Atta way to go Hoobesy.

it is hard for kids

what is it the Gulag?

rainy days like that are a perfect excuse to stay in bed the whole day.

poor hobbes. all alone under those warm, toasty blankets with nothing to do but sleep. i want to be the tiger!!!

It’s the wrong way to start any day, no matter what the plans are.

It’s especially fine in worm bed, when the others have to work or to go to school!!

Ooh, that wasn’t very nice, Hobbes. And, Calvin, neat rain hat!

One of the joys of school, waiting for the bus in bad weather. We had two designated stops in our little subdivision. Stood at them in sun, rain, howling wind, snow, and cold. We could look down the road and vaguely see the kids from the other end of the subdivision just as comfortable or miserable as we were. Oh, those were the days!

I am mighty sick of rain. We have only had two days this month without rain.

Calvin should “Let a smile be your umbrella on a rainy, rainy day”.

Why is Hobbes ‘hogging’ the umbrella? …shades of Clem?

It might be a stupid question, but I’ll risk it. In panel one, what is that dark (black) area at the upper right which sort of looks like some kind of hat or lampshade, or is it a broken part of the fence, or something else?

Rain rain stay stay Come again every day.I love rain. I need rain.

What difference does the rain make?

Hey – Hobbes is a good friend to wait there in the rain with Calvin. He could have just stayed in bed.

Uhm, No. This strip is 25 years old and Calvin is waiting in the rain, for the bus as he should be. Some people seem to think that a school bus should operate like a taxi, going from house to house and waiting until the kid gets his coat on, and finally comes out. Most people understand that a school bus is on a schedule, and need to be outside when the bus arrives, otherwise, everyone will be late.

This is how most of my dreams go.

I notice several people seem unfamiliar with Calvin’s hat. This was standard rain gear for kids growing up in the 50’s, a kind of rubberized canvas that matched the raincoat. The really old style ones were black; not so good for safety. I think Watterson must have been waxing nostalgic—by the 80’s this gear was long gone.

The comments about sleeping in when its raining brings back a wonderful memory. When our family(s) visited grandma, us kids (including cousins) had to sleep cross ways on big beds in the attic. She had a tin roof. Lying there in that bed warm and cozily sunk into that down filled homemade mattress with the white noise of a soft rain pelting the roof was the most wonderful sleeping and dreaming ever!!!Makes me want to build a house with a tin roof with the master bedroom in an open attic.

I made a trip one time and was impressed by the fact that a local insurance company had erected shelters for the school kids. (Along the main highway) Then, I turned off onto a back road, and there the kids were waiting in the open.

In Prince George in the 1940s waiting for a bus to take us to school would have been a treat,rain or no rain.Calvin buck up boy your made of better stuff.Punch a few holes in that umbrella is ok though.

This strip has started to make me feel a little sleepy now.

LOL xxx

Happy Birthday, Mr. Jogo. May you someday wake up to be Hobbs. Mom

Imagination, with all its remarkable colours, usually only ends up colouring the reality grey.

Does anyone else wonder how Hobbes get back into the house if Calvin’s Mom isn’t there to take him back in? Does Calvin just get on the bus and leave Hobbes sitting there on the sidewalk?

What a marvelous strip today. It gave me a much needed laugh. Electringle blankies rule…..

aren’t we missing the big picture here. How the heck is Hobbes getting home from the bus stop????

Calvin looks like a villain in this strip by his eyes.

School = Gulag! I wonder what Calvin would say to a plate of Pink Slime?

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Suprised his parents don’t drive him to school!!

I really enjoy Calvin and Hobbes. It appeared for years in the dsm register before the paper went totally to the left. Thanks for bringing amusement and the joy of comic relief back into my daily regiment!

Yeah, i hated waiting outside for the school bus in rain or on cold morinings. What I would’ve given to be back in my nice warm bed. But I remember when I lived in town, and it was raining with thunder and lightening. My mother told me she wasn’t sending me to school in that weather.

On the High Plains, we have a rule never to grip about the rain. This time around especially: It’s been too dry since last August. The crops and grass don’t grow without rain—and it’s hard to feed the animals on dust.

I’m surprised Calvin knows what a Gulag is. Does a 6 year old that smart really need school?

Actually my situation came first. Several years later they instituted going from house to house. Even in my day if there was only one student they would stop at his house. Just subdivisions did they do what I desccribed.

Yes… the Twelve year sentence. Do a search on John Taylor Gatto on the web. http://lewrockwell.com/gatto/gatto7.1.1.html

That happened in more rural areas; in the suburbs and urban areas, there were designated stops. Made more sense for the bus to stop one time to pick up a dozen or two kids in a central location than to stop a dozen or two times in a 2-block area.

calvin must be cursing why he is human and not hobbes

rub it in, rub it in nice and slow, and leave me dangling dry as a barnacle

hahaha a teaser from hobbes… nice touch