Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 03, 2023

CHANGES

I still don’t know what I was looking for

And my time was running wild

A million dead-end streets

Every time I thought I’d got it made

It seemed the taste was not so sweet

So I turned myself to face me

But I’ve never caught a glimpse

Of how the others must see the faker

I’m much too fast to take that test

Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes

(Turn and face the stranger)

Ch-ch-Changes

Don’t want to be a richer one

Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes

(Turn and face the stranger)

Ch-ch-Changes

Just gonna have to be a different one.

Time may change me

But I can’t trace time

Seems like Christmas came earlier for Calvin. I know these are all reruns but I didn’t think the dates would be different.

Didn’t Calvin rant in another New Year’s strip how there were no flying cars or moon colonies? It seems he’s indecisive over whether he wants things to change or not.

No matter what, you got to embrace change. If you are reading this, you are doing well! Just keep growing and become a better version of yourself.

That means continuing to go to school 5 days a week.

Calvin doesn’t change. He’s always the same “I pay no attention to consistency, reason, or reality” egomaniac.

As long as you change your underwear on a regular basis, Calvin.

Does anybody ever live up to their New Year’s resolution??

Calvin, the proto-Republican. Or maybe a newly-hatched dinosaur…

Same same, but different.

Obviously Calvin got his wish. He’s been six for thirty eight years now.

I’ve got a little change in my pocket.

Calvin sounds like an old man stuck in his routines. Routine is comfortable as you get older but young people usually like changes, they like to think about the next thing.

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I don’t like change either

I don’t know what I’m looking for

I never have opened the door

Tomorrow might find me at last

Turning my back on the past

But time will tell

Of stars that fell

A million years ago

Memories can never take you back

Home, sweet home,

You can never go home anymore.

“The longer I live, the more complicated everything gets!” Ain’t that the truth!

Let’s make gross and gory Snowgoons!! The❤️Count ❤️ Snowgoons!!

The older I get the more I dislike the inevitable changes that happen, all I can do is try and adapt to the change.

I feel the same way, Calvin, except for going to do something different.

The laws of thermodynamics do not apply only to physics.

Trying to keep things static or make them the way they used to be is like fighting the laws of the universe. It can only be done at the expense of a great amount of energy and eventually you will lose.

There are a lot of adults like Calvin. Change is inevitable. You either adapt, or get left behind.

I posit that BOREDOM, and not MONEY, is the root of all evil. Think about it.

The only thing that never changes is that everything changes

Cal is a typical kid. Irrational, irritated, and irritating, and notional at times. Seemingly calm and steady others, but the latter intervals usually are very short.

I worked for a GM who always said: If Nothing changes, nothing changes. It was his way to get us to accept change which, according to him, is constant.

What doesn’t kill me makes me stranger.

The only permanent thing in life is CHANGE.

“Life is change, how it differs from the rocks”

One of the reasons why many don’t like change is the fear of the unknown.

Wonder which friends i favor more, the ones who are consistently consistant, or the ones who are consistently inconsistent..

Again, the Sunday strips are still a month ahead of the dailies, since they skipped quite a few during this year and the last.

I don’t like change either. Dominating the skyline of Seattle are the TV towers for affiliates for the three traditional networks. This month while the tower for the NBC affiliate is covered in colored lights, they have changed the aircraft beacons along the height of the CBS affiliate tower. First to rapid on-off LED white lights, and now to rapid on-of red lights. I’m used to the fade-on, fade-off incandescent lights. Why didn’t anyone consult me on this?

Did you know that Calculus is the mathematics of Change?

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.

Always the same thing, variety. Why can’t we have somethign different?

I’m fine with inertia…

The Sunday strips seem ahead of things. We had a Christmas episode last week.

In English 1A we read “The Education of Henry Adams.” The theme was, every time you think you’ve figured out the rules, they change them on you.

Are you sure this guy’s name isn’t Charlie Brown?

Calvin the Conservative.

Wait until the puberty fairy pays a visit…

HOW VERY RANDOM