Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 23, 2018

Hey LE, will you write a letter of recommendation for Calvin to get into Va Tech?

What makes it even worse is that Hobbes is the brains of the operation.

And then kindergarten would be too easy for Calvin if he did flunk back. Right?

Looks like Calvin grew up and became president.

“Mine are even worse” that’s wonderful!!

“Mine are even worse” that’s wonderful!!

Calvin’s quote at the end is one of the funniest lines in history- this or any other medium. To just COMPLETELY miss the point and go off on the wrong idea like that takes a special kind of kid, and a special kind of genius to make that joke.

Calvin is wrong, Einstein was a very good student! The myth that he wasn’t has been created by a sloppy biographer who saw Einstein’s Graduation Certificate was full of Sixes and didn’t realise Six was the best grade in Switzerland, not the worst as in most other countries.

First grade Debate Team champions in the making.

A bit of an off topic rant: I have chafed at the importance given to math scores as an indicator of intelligence ever since 7th grade, when I was helping kids who I knew were smart with their math. It is just a talent, not a mark of some sort of genius. (Puts soapbox away.) Thanks for listening – I feel better now.

Calvin is, in fact, highly intelligent; he just focuses his abilities on things he’s interested in.

I have news for you Calvin, invoking Einstein does not make you a genius.

So many Einstein stories are false. This is one of those.

Uh, Calvin? Wrong wrong wrong

I look at the comments that use Calvin’s logic to bash both ends of the political spectrum. The fact that readers continue to find links between Waterson’s observations and contemporary events, more than 20 years after the strips concluded, demonstrate where the REAL genius lies.

Weren’t you even paying attention? I thought you knew this kid, Susie…

As a kid, I loved to read and I’m not stupid but I HATED school. I squeaked by each grade and finally flunked out of college. After the service, I went back to night school and applied myself because it was important to me. I graduated with a 3.75 GPA. Some of us are just slow to grow up.

I guess that makes Calvin a “very stable genius” too.

30 years later: Susie Derkins is very competent and follows instructions well in her clerical work. Calvin is the billionaire CEO of the company.

e=mc2

Calvin is wrong (what do you expect) Einstein was actually a good student.

Trump: the Early Years

I also got bad grades. Well I did get good grades too but only a couple.

Does that make me smart or not?

xxx

Calvin could grow up to be the next president – the ego is already there.

This has happened to every girl who ever was forced to do a joint assignment with a boy in school.

“If I weren’t here to ask,” corrected their English teacher.