Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 17, 2019

Much better than the beanie hat.

Styracosaurus and Quetzalcoatlus.

Source: I was just as dino-obsessed as Calvin is.

And then comes another “WHAP!”

Calvin, it’s just after 10! How will you make it through the day?

The beanie hat is nothing as compared to your splendid thoughts. Have a great time growing up Calvin. We grown ups miss this!

what will be the next dinosaur once Miss Wormwood slaps the yardstick again on his desk? an aquatic helicoprion with that spiraled lower jaw?

Calvin daydreams as much as I do.

Ah, the joys of daydreaming! What a great way to pass the time!

wow

And the Whaposaurus, history greatest ruler brings order back into Calvin’s world, for only a brief moment.

@ Ka`ōnōhi`ula`okahōkūmiomio`ehiku

Got it. Thanks.

Ralph Phillips and Hobbes

Sometimes I feel, I have a strong shoulder, which pulls me away, when things become especially unpleasant. A shoulder which is tender, which saves and protects me!

When it rained I would watch the raindrops drip down the window, I was not as imaginative as Calvin.

It would have been more effective if the ruler landed on his hand.

Poor Calvin, it’s like having a power outage in the middle of an awesome flick! Happy watching…

This is me in school. No exaggeration.

Been there, Calving, most recently when I was assigned a study hall. Anywhere else would have been better.

Escapist daydreams are probably better than destructive ones.

Love how the teacher’s ruler-whap dents the desk!

A double espresso would fix that… for me, not Calvin.

U do realize that man and dino’s didn’t exist at the same time?No matter what the Flintstones showed. And if it hadn’t been for an errant meteor, the Garden of Eden would never have happened?…….

Odd? I learned Triceratops and Pterodactyl. Am I so old all the names changed that much?

Deja-Vu! Early 1950’s, Nuns dressed in black swinging yardsticks for any reason. Today’s kids think they have it rough? I went into the Military in 1960. Boot camp was mild compared to 8 years in Catholic grammar school. The Nuns looked a lot like Calvin’s teacher; except, they were about a hundred years older.

Portrait of an ADD student. That was me as a kid. Only, I few away in a spaceship.

School is for the dullwitted and unimaginative.

In the old days that ruler would have hit his knuckles, not the desk!

Nothing like being bored and let the imagination run wild.

I love it! Calvin could grow up to be the next Stephen King!

Damn, don’t mess with Miss Wormwood. Look at what she did to that desk. Those things were built to shield a kid from a nuclear attack and she crushed it with a stick!

The inability to daydream is a symptom of dementia, BTW.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/dementia-patients-lose-ability-to-daydream-20190216-p50ya7.html

https://sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2019/02/18/people-with-dementia-lose-their-ability-to-daydream.html

Ah those beautiful days when schools had one wall of windows, letting the light inside. I often found myself flying with the crows who passed by the school.

There was a 4 million year separation between the end of the velociraptor and the rise of T Rex. Longer than the evolution of Hominids (us).

Tyrannosaurs just may have communicated in the infra sound range the same as giraffes & elephants so there was probably no roars as the GMO chimeras of Jurassic World. They have intelligence that may have aided them in keeping the apex predator label till the end.

Back in the day, I remember my second grade teacher, (Mrs. Oversbee) yes I still remember her name… would spy a studentin class that was daydreaming at his desk and would then sneak up behind the kid, take her hands and grab him on the shoulders and violently shake the the living daylights out of him to snap him back to reality… I’ve seen her do that on many occasions…Now-days she would be reported and so on. Perhaps loose her job as well… After seeing that I was never a day dreamer in class !