Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 30, 2012

What a sense of accomplishment.

I have no idea what he is talking about? 2 packs of waht?

2 packs ??

Coffee?

(About to drink a cup of coffee, unfiltered in my cup.)

Yeah..2 packs of 50’s unfiltered, i.e. " plain " *SIX*STAR* CIGARETTES …

I can remember the days when a dime bought a pack of 20 candy cigarettes. The real things were a whopping 50 cents.

I wonder what her brand is/was? Pall Mall? Raleigh? Camel?

I smoked mostly Raleigh unfiltered for the last year that I smoked. It may have been my response to the new “low tar” cigarettes that had come out. I had tried them, just to discover that I smoked twice as much. I switched to the stronger stuff in order to taper off. After getting down to about 5 or less @ day they started to lose their appeal.

Sigh…….!

So much for the idea (stated yesterday) that there are no bad students, only bad teachers. I’ve been both student and teacher, and believe me, there are good and bad students and teachers alike.

I am sorry folks, having lost both parents to smoking related diseases, I don’t find any humor in this.

cool……!!!!!

Miss Wormwood looks like a “Lucky Strikes” or “Viceroy” smoker to me.

the worst part of school material i had no use for is the gym class presidential fitness challenge. the one where how many pushups, situps, etc.. and how fast one can run a mile.

Not the best Calvin strip

My fifth grade teacher hated kids (boys, anyway) and showed it. On the other hand, there were also kids who hated all teachers, good or bad.

I don’t think she smokes (like Mrs Olsen), but I suspect that bottle comes out as soon as she gets home…

If I had a student like Calvin in my class, I don’t think cigarettes would do it. Maybe black-tar heroin….

Is Calvin trying to make her get cancer?… yes, he probably is…

I remember when a quarter into a machine got a pack with 2 pennies taped to it.

What is Calvin doing in the last frame?

Because we only seen people through Calvin’s eyes, I wonder if Miss Wormwood is really a mid-twenties young lady, ooozing charm to the rest of the world.I know all of my teachers were “really old”, until I look back at the actual pictures from back then.

Very true. Like reality TV You can show it all you want, but you can’t make me care!

I can see Calvin is having a swinging time.

LOL xxx

I’m confused. How’d the comic strip go from being in the classroom, to outside?

“Fag” & “Square” were popular slangs for cigarettes in the 50’s.

Yes. I remember the two cents change tucked inside the cellophane wrapping in cigs from machines. I also remember 13 cent cigs from the PX in the Army in the early 60’s. 13 $ per carton).

Paid 21cents,for Winstons..and my fourth grade teacher,Mrs.Orders(truth)was Wormwood,but 15lbs lighter and no glasses..and sixth grade was Mrs.Garrison(truth again) her sister! Disdain for both,to this day…

Nicotene is good for the brain, allowing calm focus despite stress. Unfortunately, it is bad for heart and arteries, and if inhaled in smoke, for lungs – taking an average of 7 years off your life.

You wanna talk “Bad” teachers. I went to Saint Ann’s, a Polish, Roman Catholic elementary school in Chicago for 8 years. There was no kindergarten back then (1949). The Nuns (Sisters of Nazareth) were so sick, they would put their fingers in your mouth looking for gum and then tell you “You don’t know where I’ve had these fingers”. They were replaced by regular teachers in the 60’s. After surviving that, the Military was a piece of cake. Vietnam was a little tense.

Normally I really enjoy Calvin’s antics… today, not so much. Maybe I just woke up on the wrong side of life today….hmmm

Two six-packs a day might bring more “piece of mind” than smoking.

cigs have killed most of my deceased family and friends. I would love to be in a room of tobacco executives with a Louisville Slugger.

Calvin deserves a visit from Moe right about now!

“You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink.”

“Yay, my teacher has a death wish thanks to me!”

But how did he get outside?

Calvin needs to be transferred to a new school, one which will challenge that mind of his. Miss Wormwood’s rote memorization is so Yesterday!

If I were Miss Wormwood, I would have said “That may be, but I’m not the one who thirty years from now will have to look back at my pathetic shipwreck of a life wondering what went wrong, my lofty aspirations reduced to frequent purchase of lottery tickets. In fact, I’ll probably be dead. HAHAHAHA Hahaha HAHAHAHA hahaha!”

Back when cigs were 15c per pack, most everybody I knew that smoked were always saying that they wished they could quit.I figured the best thing to do was not start.Saved a lot of money, and can still breathe at 73.

Next time anyone with a brain that functions even thinks about lighting one up he/she should remember what happened to Yul Brynner, Johnny Carson, Dean Martin, John Wayne, etc…..

cigarettes = death sticks. Still enormously popular overseas, especially in the Far East, sadly….

A response like that and any student should forget what recess looks like by the time they got out of detention. If you don’t care, don’t come.

After that little announcement to Miss Wormwood, shouldn’t Calvin be at the principal’s office yet again rather than having a fun time out on the playground swing?!?

Admittedly, Calvin is a tough nut—but a great teacher inspires the students to care, and then learning follows as naturally as water flows from a hose.

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In Calvin’s case, it would probably be a firehose. Look at how much he knows about dinosaurs.

It’s the luck of the individual’s genetic draw.. Christine’s draw was lousy: http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/campaign/tips/stories/christine.html

I had forgotten about swinging on the belly! Really feels like flying for a few seconds. but then you are pulled back!

Calvin: “Hobbes, I’m repeating everything you say.”Hobbes: “Oh, really.”C: “Oh, really.”H: “Stop it, that’s very annoying!”C: “Stop it, that’s very annoying!”H: “Hurry, pounce on me, Hobbes!”C: “Oh, nice try.”H: “Ho, ho.”

I have a father who used to smoke but quit, as well as a stepdad and mom who smoke (and make their own cigarettes).

To those who keep wondering how Calvin ended up outside in the last panel, it’s called “recess.”

Gee, this even happens at the college level these days…

He’ll be lucky if any private or public entity even gives him the time of day, with his level of apathy. Who wants to hire someone who only cares about what interests him, as opposed to caring about what’s necessary in order to survive, let alone meet the needs of the people around him, even if he doesn’t think it’s relevant to his limited world view?

lol

Or maybe this one?

Or maybe she’s smoking Yeni Harmon or Samsun, two of the Turkish brands. (Camels are Turkish and Domestic blend, imagine what a 100% Turkish cig. would be like!)I wish I’d brought home a carton or two, just to have handy when someone wanted to bum a cig. They’d probably never ask again!!