Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

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Margueritem said, 2 months ago

Smart move, Calvin.

AZ
N7326 Foxtrot said, 2 months ago

Doggonit, Marg, you beat me by a minute. I remember those days, only it was a quarter.
Just plain Steve said, 2 months ago

That was fast, both of you! Morning Magureitem, morning Foxtrot!
Shy Shy said, 2 months ago

oh wow
cleokaya said, 2 months ago

I would pay Calvin after the job was done.
Yukoner said, 2 months ago

Steve, I’m not sure about the morning thing. Here in Yukon it’s still evening of Friday 28 August.

It would be interesting to know where all of the posters to this comic are from. How about everybody adding their province, state or country to today’s comments?
Gweedo Murray said, 2 months ago

What’s a poter ?
Just plain Steve said, 2 months ago

Hi Yukoner. Yeah, I’m a left coaster too (Vancouver B.C.) I couldn’t stay awake to the late hours our dedicated Eastern comics fans can, but at least I can greet them in “their language.”

Gweedo, I take it there was a quick edit I missed, but a pooter is a device for collecting insects. Does that help? :O)
Yukoner said, 2 months ago

Gweedo, I missed the “s” in poSters but fixed it after you po(s)ted your question.

Cheers
sjoujke said, 2 months ago

Hey I’m from Vancouver Island. It’s a small world afterall…..(keep singing).
wndrwrthg said, 2 months ago

State of denial here (CA.).
LX013 said, 2 months ago

Good bargain !
Carmy said, 2 months ago

Calvin, just pick up the sticks and branches 24 more times and you’ll have 25 dollars. (FL)
somebodyshort said, 2 months ago

I remember doing for a quarter, and that got me a chocolate bar and a nickle change. Ontario
Just plain Steve said, 2 months ago

sjoujke,

Another West coast, left-handed Terry Pratchett fan – “it’s a small, small world.”

(Of course you realize this means… I won’t be able to sleep tonight!!! La, la, la, la, dum, de, dum…)
zipdryve said, 2 months ago

New York, USA… no not the city.
Puddleglum2 said, 2 months ago

I posted the last comment yesterday. It concerns everyone who is interested and some who are not.

MA
BC13 said, 2 months ago

I would have gotten paid after the job was done. Dad, I think you’re making a little mistake where Calvin is concerned.

League City, TX
vibjyor said, 2 months ago

Calvin, let us hope Susie comes along. You can then play a ‘Tom Sawyer’ on her. (Kuwait)
Johanan Rakkav said, 2 months ago

Calvin is thinking like a gamester; he knows when to cut his losses. (Houston, TX.)
parethed said, 2 months ago

Sounds like my grandson, ‘cept it costs me ten bucks or he won’t get off the couch…(Fort Worth, TX)
anilit99 said, 2 months ago

Umm.. Morning ya all, from London !
trying2keepup said, 2 months ago

Winnipeg, Manitoba and up way too late coz I gotta work in the morning.
ophiel said, 2 months ago

Heh, great times when u were happy having a dollar [or 5 zlotys here :D] and u could do soo many things with it, as a kid…

Nysa - Szczecinek train, Poland - hello all ;-)
Dino-1 said, 2 months ago

I used to get $5.00 a week for all my chores. I was a latch key kid for a hour five days a week because Mom was a teacher and always had kids to help or discipline after school and Dad worked shift work at the paper mill. It was my job to get dinner ready which Mom got a headstart on earlier. For example I’d wash potatoes, poke them, and wrap them in foil to put in the oven, along with the meatloaf she had in the pan in the refrigerator. I started the general housework which she’d leave a list for me which might be to put in the laundry and do the dusting. Laundry was a drudge because it was before permanent press and everything had to be ironed and starched including Dad’s workclothes, hers and my dresses, and all the bed linens which could take hours. When Mom came home she had school work to correct and lesson plans to form and still help me with my homework.

We’d all have chores we’d do together around or outside the house on the weekend.
I’d get extra money helping the neighbors clean up their yards, help clean their basements or attics, and straighten up for their out of town visitors. I got the best job in the neighborhood though which was to get the mail, papers, water the plants, and feed and walk the pets when everybody went on vacations. (New York State)
Leonardeuler said, 2 months ago

Only one dollar ?? Good grief, does dad know nothing about the financial situation today ??

Greetings to you all from Belgium (one of the smallest countries in Western Europe)
tamsin said, 2 months ago

ha- it’s because of the financial situation that he only gets a dollar… (I thought that was a bit stingy myself, actually)

I’m not exactly a regular here but love Calvin- and your comments often crack me up. Hello from Ukraine.
cryptomaniac said, 2 months ago

Hi all

Back from a short vacation in “God’s own Country”. Am enjoying catching up on all that’s happened in the last week, notably the advent of Puddleglum2

(Secunderabad, India)
LX013 said, 2 months ago

Dad has new glasses!
pearlandpeach said, 2 months ago

yeah, a quarter, except in the fall when leaves were raked and, back then, playing in the piles and the smell of burning leaves…of course I did not live in Canyon Lake tx then either.
Destiny23 said, 2 months ago

It never would have occurred to me to demand money for chores, or talk back like that! While I don’t remember ever actually being spanked, I remember the fear thereof…

(Central Ontario)
Lewreader said, 2 months ago

Destiny…I agree I’d say,”What do I get if I pick up the sticks? Dad would say, To stay in one piece.”
Florchi said, 2 months ago

Calvin the Negotiator (well, he tried) - reading this in the early a.m. about as far away from the Yukon as one can get and still be in the USA

Sunny South Florida
eeyores said, 2 months ago

;-) calvin many people know your way of thinking… why not trying to get the max????… in case this will not work you can still reduce to the minimum…….

greets from Switzerland… (no… not Sweeden ;-) ;-)
Puddleglum2 said, 2 months ago

Yukoner,
“Getting to know you, getting to know all (province, state or country) about you.”
At first I questioned in my mind the advisability of such a suggestion, but after seeing (without Dad’s new glasses) the responses, I think it was/is a great idea.
Do the people in the Yukon still remember Sgt. Preston, his horse Rex, and his faithful dog Yukon King after all these years?
carpetinwater9 said, 2 months ago

Long ago and far away , A dollar was a LOT of money.
gbwooden said, 2 months ago

Calvin learns the necessity of negotiating from a position of strength—and the utility of CONCESSIONS.
Gweedo Murray said, 2 months ago

There was a kwik edit from the original “poter”, Steve. Yukoner’s boo boo put a laugh on my face and a smile in my heart.

Boulder, Colorado USA. Originally Amherst, NY, a suburb of Buffalo.

I am in western NY currently where on this Saturday morning, it is raining. Will be going home Monday.

As a small kid; 50 cents a week to vacuum common areas.
rshive said, 2 months ago

Calvin the negotiator gives away the store.

(East Missouri).
Huntermoon said, 2 months ago

I think Dad is setting a bad precedent giving a six-year-old money for doing a specific chore.

I’m reading these from Missouri in the middle of the USA.
Bdaysuit said, 2 months ago

Good Morning everybody from Kalamazoo, Michigan. USA.

Calvin is smarter than he looks. lol
Puddleglum2 said, 2 months ago

Steve,
Is a “pooter” the Canadian verson of an aspirator (gun)?
I had not heard that word before, and couldn’t find it in three of my dictionaries, but I found it online.
Recently, my 11 year old granddaughter collected a couple grasshoppers, and crickets several days later, catching them by hand (she didn’t have a pooter) and putting them with grass into a little plastic container(s) with little holes punched in the top for air. The grasshoppers were still alive after several days. I don’t know about the crickets, yet. I’ll have to ask her. That was her “scientific” experiment.
Calvin does his own scientific experiments from time to time. I have to get the “comic” into this.
Fdavid said, 2 months ago

My daughter gets an allowance when I get payed.
That covers the chores she is told to do.
Failure to do what she is told to do results in NO allowance.
More or less lol.
(greetings from south central Iowa)
LX013 said, 2 months ago

Mostly I had to help without money, sometimes I got a little bit, when I lived with my parentes.
Superfrog said, 2 months ago

Hi from Queensland, Australia where it’s 10:34pm Saturday and 1 aussie dollar will buy 0.845 Calvin dollars.
Puddleglum2 said, 2 months ago

cryptomaniac,
When you say “God’s own Country”, I assume you are referring to Kerala, India. (New Zealand has been called God’s own country and the “Paradise of the Pacific” since the early 1800s.)
Did you go to Thiruvananthapurim (formerly Trivandrum) while you were there?
Does the rain in Kerala (averaging around 118 inches annually) fall mainly in the plain, as it does in Spain?
If your comment about me was positive, you have made my day.
Perejohn41 said, 2 months ago

From sunny eastern Georgia in the USA…Been following the adventures of Calvin and Hobbs since their beginning and this strip is a nice refresher…Love all the comments and I think is is a wonderful idea to know where everyone is from.
nickdangerfield said, 2 months ago

I recieved no pay for the yard chores I did at home. I received one dollar to mow and rake the neighbor’s yards. I returned coke bottles for three cents apiece. I gave my kids an allowance to encourage them to save. Nobody in my family got paid for household chores. Tennessee then. Florida now.
Puddleglum2 said, 2 months ago

LX013 said,
Dad has new glasses!

You must be a female. Most men would not notice that detail. As Yogi Berra said, “You can observe a lot just by watching”.
When I first read your comment, I didn’t think about Dad’s glasses having been broken during the recent trip. Then it hit me, the way the baseball hit Yukoner a few days ago, although it was a mental (not physical) impact.
Macushlalondra said, 2 months ago

I enjoyed doing chores for money. I got a regular allowance but often we were able to get more if we did extra chores. It helped if I was saving up for something.

I lived in Michigan for 49 1/2 years but my husband and I moved to London Ontario Canada last November. I’m getting used to life here, and enjoying it very much. Nice to see so many people from around the world here.