Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 03, 2014
Transcript:
Calvin: "Hi, mom. Can I look at your wallet for a few minutes? I, uh, want to see something" Mom: "Hold on. Did you make your bed like I asked you?" Calvin: "I'm working on it" Mom: "As I recall, your bed is in your room" Calvin: "I'm inventing a robot to make the bed, but I need a grant. Can I have $50?" Hobbes: "What'd she say? Did you get the money?" Calvin: "Boy, when we're the cover story of popular mechanics, I'll have some choice words to say about family encouragement"
BE THIS GUY over 9 years ago
Offer your Mom a percentage of the company, maybe then she will give you the money.
ORMouseworks over 9 years ago
LOL! Curses, foiled again! ;)
rshive over 9 years ago
Grant money doesn’t’ grow on trees. It grows in wallets.
micromite over 9 years ago
My mum never kept money in her wallet when I was around.
Zero-Gabriel over 9 years ago
“Mom is from Missouri.”
A lot of people seem to hate Missouri…Why is that…??
moronbis over 9 years ago
I am sure he had similar feelings for his dad as well. Can’t remember that strip.
thirdguy over 9 years ago
Love Moms’ blank stare in frame 3. Like she doesn’t know whether to laugh or throw a fit. I think the latter.
thirdguy over 9 years ago
you shouldn’t talk about yourself that way.
Hobbes Premium Member over 9 years ago
Calvin, like most kids, takes his parents’ money for granted.
Click here: Calvin and Hobbes (February 19, 1992)Click here: Ziggy (August 28, 2003)Click here: Pearls Before Swine (February 25, 2011)(Sydney Harris)vwdualnomand over 9 years ago
cat’s in the cradle.
melissalomax1313 creator over 9 years ago
‘Choice words’ ha-ha!! He’s so great.
Radical_Knight over 9 years ago
I’m still waiting for the affordable flying-car, they said in (I believe) Oct ‘65, would be in most everyone’s garage by 1997.
watmiwori over 9 years ago
Mom — ever the sceptic….
tuslog64 over 9 years ago
Here in western Illinois we have a long list of Missouri jokes.And they give us plenty of material to work with!1. Only recently did they take a law off the books that required an operator of a tractor to place planks on a bridge before crossing. (Goes back to when tractors had steel lug wheels – decades ago!)2. Until a few years ago, it was legal to shoot an LDS member! (Though, I suspect that if someone had used this as defence, a jury would have still convicted)
dflak over 9 years ago
Calvin, Calvin, you have to come to her with a 1.579 page proposal that you know she won’t have time to read.
hippogriff over 9 years ago
The bed-making robot has already been invented. It is called a sleeping bag. Just get out, roll it up, and stuff it in your pack.
neverenoughgold over 9 years ago
“Mom is from Missouri.”.No, Miss is from Missouri; Mom is from Momtana…
neverenoughgold over 9 years ago
“Instead of a grant, how about a start up? He could start by making his bed up.”.Very good! LOL…
xall2h1 over 9 years ago
20% plz
Hobbes Premium Member over 9 years ago
@Tacopielvr: It’s too bad that people come to GoComics for humor and relaxation, and then often end up arguing over highly emotional issues. I guess there’s sometimes a fine line between comedy and tragedy.
Susie Derkins D: over 9 years ago
Told ya.
Daniel Quilp over 9 years ago
Willard Duncan Vandiver (1854–1932) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Missouri. He is popularly credited with the authorship of the famous expression: “I’m from Missouri, you’ve got to show me,” which led to the state’s famous nickname: “The Show Me State”.1 In an 1899 speech, he declared, “I come from a state that raises corn and cotton, cockleburs and Democrats, and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I’m from Missouri, and you have got to show me.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_Duncan_Vandiver
Meh~tdology, fka Pepelaputr over 9 years ago
Hey, Calvin , invent Kick-Starter first!
Hobbes Premium Member over 9 years ago
@rgcviper: Ah, yes, the old mini-snow-goon device….. Tried and true….. Always good for a laugh….. I’ve seen it many times…..