Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

Calvin and Hobbes

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  1. margueritem

    margueritemGenius_badge said, 3 months ago

    My Mom wouldn’t sign mine….

  2. chubbygirlcomics.com

    chubbygirlcomics.comGenius_badge said, 3 months ago

    Ah, but then Calvin, it’s off to a day job where you feel exactly the same way, only now there’s no summer vacation to dream of and it’s possible that your boss won’t sign your permission slip for requested time off…

  3. vibjyor

    vibjyor said, 3 months ago

    My goodness ! With all that counting that he can already do, maybe he doesn’t need schooling. He can go to the college right away !.

  4. LX013

    LX013 said, 3 months ago

    To get me out the next 11 1/2 years! And who will get him out of work than!

  5. Mishka

    Mishka said, 3 months ago

    Homeless in training.

  6. JP Steve

    JP Steve said, 3 months ago

    I’ve got a parental excuse to take early retirement right now! And I won’t sign it! Why,Why,WHY?

  7. sjoujke

    sjoujkeGenius_badge said, 3 months ago

    I must have been really weird….I actually liked school. It was a heck of a lot better than working.

  8. Yukoner

    Yukoner said, 3 months ago

    The only good part of school was the look of relief on the teacher’s face when the bell rang at the end of the day.

  9. Carmy

    CarmyGenius_badge said, 3 months ago

    Nice try, Calvin!

  10. ankit221215

    ankit221215 said, 3 months ago

    Pleeeeeeease sign it…..

  11. Radish

    Radish said, 3 months ago

    Delayed gratification is what the middle class does best Calvin…

  12. jukeofurl

    jukeofurl said, 3 months ago

    What is real in this world is determined by those with the most to lose.

  13. jrbj

    jrbj said, 3 months ago

    The cartoon intimates that the world, and life, generally sucks. If this is actually the case, why are we all so insistent on staying in it? Is the human race inherently masochistic or do we, deep down inside, doubt the promise of a better life beyond this one? It seems to me that if a better life beyond were true that we’d all be lining up to go there. Instead, we fight and scratch and claw to stay right where we are and continue with our suffering. How strange is that?

  14. Grog

    GrogGenius_badge said, 3 months ago

    While you’re at it, Calvin, why don’t you get permission to miss the next 40 years or so of work.

    I’ve got what I hope will be 5 more years left of going to the salt mines, and even that seems like an eternity away.

  15. Lewreader

    LewreaderGenius_badge said, 3 months ago

    Every morning I jump out of bed and shout, “Oh boy! I wonder what’s happening at work today!” Then I skip down the road with a smile on my face and a song in my heart to see my loving co-workers and understanding bosses who recognize, acknowledge, and reward my every effort.,

    Would you call the drugstore and see if my meds are ready yet?

  16. cdward

    cdward said, 3 months ago

    Hey guys, I actually love my work. Sadly, there are about three other careers I’d love to do too – so much fun out there and so few hours.

    Re the cartoon: Dad replies: “Sure I’ll sign if you sign this form that says you move out the day you leave school.”

  17. Puddleglum2

    Puddleglum2 said, 3 months ago

    “Welcome To My (the) World” - Jim Reeves

    I believe a certain “better life beyond” is true, but most people either don’t believe in it or don’t desire it. It isn’t their ‘cup of tea’ so to speak. Besides, they prefer to try to earn it rather than be humbled to accept the gift.
    “For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.”
    Romans 10:13

  18. Josh 1360

    Josh 1360 said, 3 months ago

    Anyone’s only hope: The Lottery.

  19. Susan001

    Susan001Genius_badge said, 3 months ago

    They say that money can’t buy happiness, but it sure as hell can buy some great alternatives! LOL

  20. plus4

    plus4 said, 3 months ago

    jrbj - Great philosophising there! The problem is that the better life it doesn’t just involve “lining up” – it involves hurting one’s pride, something that’s strangely REEEEALLY hard for most of us.

    (I know Puddleglum2 kind of beat me to the answer, but I thought I’d try to put it in different terms.)

  21. Wiseguy411

    Wiseguy411 said, 3 months ago

    money will buy a better class of worries

  22. mplsstreetrwy

    mplsstreetrwy said, 3 months ago

    I wonder what effect signing this will have on his dad’s standings in the polls?

  23. Ray C

    Ray C said, 3 months ago

    Money can rent happiness. Or so I’ve heard.

  24. Grog

    GrogGenius_badge said, 3 months ago

    mplsstreetrwy
    I think signing that will give him a landslide victory in the polls.

  25. Macushlalondra

    Macushlalondra said, 3 months ago

    When you’re a kid griping about school, adults tell you these are the best years of your life because working is harder. But as a kid you can’t fathom that. It turns out to be true though. School is a lot less difficult than working. Very few people actually have a job or career they enjoy, most people only work for the money and count the hours til they can go home, or count the days til the weekend, or the next vacation or retirement.

  26. ocean17

    ocean17 said, 3 months ago

    High school was ok, but grade school was the worst years of my life and much harder than anything I’ve done since. The best part of my childhood was the part where I left it behind.

  27. celecca

    celeccaGenius_badge said, 3 months ago

    I was pretty miserable in high school, but I’m fairly content with my work. I just wish there was more of it and medical benefits!

  28. Awesome-o

    Awesome-o said, 3 months ago

    Calvin going to hate the next 11 1/2 years…

  29. notinksanymore

    notinksanymore said, 3 months ago

    I love school. That’s why I’ve been going for two decades!

  30. Josh

    Josh said, 3 months ago

    If only I had a parental slip like that. Nobody would sign it, though.

  31. aerwalt

    aerwaltGenius_badge said, 3 months ago

    School was OK. The idiots I had to contend with were another matter.

    Think “Lords of Flatbush.”

  32. C Red

    C Red said, 3 months ago

    To aerwalt, that’s the same as me. Except that I’m still in school.

  33. bo-man-go

    bo-man-go said, 3 months ago

    I couldn’t wait to grow up when I was a kid…grownups can do ‘whatever they want’…ha!

  34. ratlum

    ratlum said, 3 months ago

    I am retired and no damned hurry to leave for any promise
    Like Calvin because he works in the here and now
    His make believe is so much fun

  35. thebird55

    thebird55 said, 3 months ago

    Ray C said: “Money can rent happiness.” It can also ‘rent’ (as in tear apart) happiness. But I’d still like to take my chances.

  36. GretchensMom

    GretchensMom said, 3 months ago

    One of these days, when Calvin is toiling away in a job he HATES that he’ll be at far longer than when he was in school, he’ll be wishing he was a little boy again where he had no real problems or things to worry about … and hadn’t wished his young life away!

  37. grazer

    grazer said, 3 months ago

    I’m with Calvin and Albert Einstein who both figured out that “Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

    That makes three of us so far.

  38. Maizing

    Maizing said, 3 months ago

    I hated grade school, junior high and high school. I loved the college classes I took though. It makes a big difference when you are learning something that interests you vs what the system says you have to learn.

  39. zaom

    zaom said, 3 months ago

    as a person who is going to start working (pretty eager to see how it turns out in our economy) and still in school it could be an enrichening experience to see the how a job is over the summer AND summer school.

  40. DDFENCE EMET First

    DDFENCE EMET First said, 3 months ago

    Take Forgery 101 in your next semester, Calvin good buddy.

  41. JoeDGiusto

    JoeDGiusto said, 3 months ago

    OK, right after you sign that I don’t have to support you anymore..

  42. Noreen Klose

    Noreen Klose said, 3 months ago

    My friend’s daughter graduated from college. She told him that she’d start looking for work after “summer break”. He told her, that since school is OVER—there is NO summer break. Go look for a job, and go to work NOW!

  43. Dino-1

    Dino-1 said, 3 months ago

    Life would be alot better if we all could do what we wanted and had all the money and time to do it. I’m still keep hoping I’ll get to do that some day.

  44. ocean17

    ocean17 said, 3 months ago

    grazer, that’s easy for Einstein to say. He had plenty of both. Imagination may be more important than knowledge, but you’re more screwed without knowledge than you are without imagination.

  45. Hurst5809

    Hurst5809 said, 3 months ago

    This really described my life until I retired, now I can do what I want when I want to do it. Life is great!

  46. kab2rb

    kab2rb said, 3 months ago

    For some of us there are a lot of people who have lost jobs and need work. And some who have been looking for work and can’t get work. And people like me did work had to leave for kids and waited to long when technology changed working pt and I need full time and the odds are too high 1000 to 1 position.
    Only the young who stay with education and ouside job seem to get somewhere.
    When I was a kid school was ok but I enjoyed the library for books because summer was boring no library.

  47. krisch

    krisch said, 3 months ago

    I do the same at office.. and I get paid for it. I can’t even get a parental excuse.