Ginger Meggs by Jason Chatfield for October 17, 2016

“And if you survive this, you will be thrown into the dodgeball pit.”

Did Calvin really call his gym teacher “twisted space frog” out loud?

Well, can the gym instructor get on it?

You can just roll and get away to the nearest window. Though that’s risky. I know. I tried it once.

Korean DMZ, 1988, there was a chin up bar outside the mess hall, guess what that meant? You got it chin-ups before eating.

I never once saw a gym teacher who looked like that. But if one did, Calvin should have little difficulty outrunning him. All he has to do is make it past 10 yards.

escape, escape!!

Wow, did everyone have a gym instructor/P.E. teacher cut from the same cloth? Mine was like General Patton, without the pearl handled pistols (I’m sure he had them but the school board frowned on wearing them to school).

Never met a teacher with their profession on their shirt like that

When you have to be lifted up to the chin-up bar…

The climbing rope was the worst.

I think Calvin and I had the same instructor.

I’m right behind you, Spiff.

But you’ll fry the space frog with your death ray first right Spiff?

This is a question for you all that doesn’t have to do with the strip: How do you imagine Hobbes’ voice? I imagine it more deeper compared to Calvin’s high 6-year-old voice.

Had a Jr. High gym teacher that you didn’t talk back to. More than once I say a kid grabbed by his shirt front, picked up off his feet and pushed into the dividing wall between the girl and boy’s classes. Kids back then did not go crying to Momma, cause they knew their parents would discipline them again.

As I recall, my elementary gym teach was a goony monster too.

Ours was an Ex-Marine WWII fighter pilot, tuff as all get-out, salt & pepper haired, fair and square, took no crap from anybody, bullies included and eventually moved up thru the ranks to become a Principal in the district. Go Bulldogs !

Calvin’s got an excellent imagination. It goes well with Gym Class!

xxx

And then the peg board from hell.

@sonoferu:So you’re right. But in his fantasy, he’s clearly indoors.

@orinoco womble:Well, I suppose the next option is a rubber band and a slingshot.

Never had gym in elementary school but thereafter it was a constant struggle with the morons that ran the program.

Maybe YOU should try it first, tubbo.