Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

Calvin and Hobbes

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  1. margueritem

    margueritemGenius_badge said, 3 months ago

    LOL! Just so Calvin!

  2. Puddleglum2

    Puddleglum2 said, 3 months ago

    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

  3. Johanan Rakkav

    Johanan RakkavGenius_badge said, 3 months ago

    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! :))

  4. cleokaya

    cleokayaGenius_badge said, 3 months ago

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

  5. LW18 ( LADYWOLF)

    LW18 ( LADYWOLF) said, 3 months ago

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

  6. LW18 ( LADYWOLF)

    LW18 ( LADYWOLF) said, 3 months ago

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

  7. Grog

    GrogGenius_badge said, 3 months ago

    I can’t relate…I’m an ISTJ.

  8. Yukoner

    Yukoner said, 3 months ago

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

  9. ♠Lonewolf♠

    ♠Lonewolf♠Genius_badge said, 3 months ago

    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.

  10. Bargrove

    Bargrove said, 3 months ago

    I had an aunt like that once.

  11. kpeiyin

    kpeiyin said, 3 months ago

    I wish I had the time Calvin has…

  12. vibjyor

    vibjyor said, 3 months ago

    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 !

  13. WoodEye

    WoodEye said, 3 months ago

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

  14. Miss.Fit

    Miss.Fit said, 3 months ago

    That’s so like me… LOL..!!

    @vibjyor : ROFL… well said… !!!

  15. LX013

    LX013 said, 3 months ago

    Work ethic!

  16. Carmy

    CarmyGenius_badge said, 3 months ago

    No surprises there, Calvin.

  17. Lewreader

    LewreaderGenius_badge said, 3 months ago

    Calvin, what no magnifying glass?

  18. kreole

    kreole said, 3 months ago

    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.

  19. Susan001

    Susan001Genius_badge said, 3 months ago

    The ant can be diligent because he’s basically working for himself.
    He doesn’t have to worry about bosses (or government) judging his every move.

    BTW, I’m retired too, and I LOVE it!

  20. kreole

    kreole said, 3 months ago

    “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.

  21. Johanan Rakkav

    Johanan RakkavGenius_badge said, 3 months ago

    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.

  22. Bargrove

    Bargrove said, 3 months ago

    vibjyor: Thank you, little butterfly.

  23. jrbj

    jrbj said, 3 months ago

    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.

  24. nighthawks

    nighthawksGenius_badge said, 3 months ago

    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!

  25. jbmetalmonster

    jbmetalmonster said, 3 months ago

    ok that was just bad…

  26. Doctor Toon

    Doctor ToonGenius_badge said, 3 months ago

    It’s amazing to see the intense concentration of labor an ant colony will go through when the anthill is accidentally smashed.

  27. MisngNOLA

    MisngNOLA said, 3 months ago

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

  28. bald 716

    bald 716 said, 3 months ago

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

  29. Richard

    Richard said, 3 months ago

    I really would expect that comment from Andy Capp.

  30. DDFENCE EMET First

    DDFENCE EMET First said, 3 months ago

    Six foot posi-traction undercarriage does wonders.

    A.

  31. rac0308

    rac0308 said, 3 months ago

    work smarter, not harder

  32. ruidai

    ruidai said, 3 months ago

    I love Calvin: so brutally honest with himself.

  33. yankeewhaler

    yankeewhaler said, 3 months ago

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

  34. rdandrearocha

    rdandrearocha said, 3 months ago

    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.

  35. bunnyface (bmonk)

    bunnyface (bmonk) said, 3 months ago

    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.

  36. bald 716

    bald 716 said, 3 months ago

    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

  37. Coffee-Turtle

    Coffee-TurtleGenius_badge said, 3 months ago

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

  38. johnnydoc5

    johnnydoc5 said, 3 months ago

    I can’t identify with it either.

  39. jmd4lsu

    jmd4lsuGenius_badge said, 3 months ago

    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-

  40. jhcoker

    jhcoker said, 3 months ago

    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.

  41. spbatwork

    spbatwork said, 3 months ago

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

  42. ratlum

    ratlum said, 3 months ago

    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 ?

  43. vexatron1984

    vexatron1984 said, 3 months ago

    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…

  44. thebird55

    thebird55 said, 3 months ago

    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.

  45. DDFENCE EMET First

    DDFENCE EMET First said, 3 months ago

    @nighthawks:

    I always suspected you had a background in special forces.

  46. Awesome-o

    Awesome-o said, 3 months ago

    One thought goes on to the next…

  47. vibjyor

    vibjyor said, 3 months ago

    to MisngNOLA :

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

  48. krisch

    krisch said, 3 months ago

    No Life Lessons here for our boy Calvin.