Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 07, 2012

Make it a Prom lunch.

call it what you want, thats some great parenting.

Zygotes get no legal representation.

Ask to see the notary stamp where you signed agreeing to this Calvin. Your footprint on the birth certificate isn’t valid evidence.

Who would even go to the prom with Calvin??

I love Dad’s sense of humor.

now that is great parenting

I guess

If is Mom went with him, … that would just be wrong

settle down there.

Can you spell PROBABLY? Text-speak is neither English nor universally understood. You should be learning and making use of the fundamentals of grammar, composition, and punctuation. I know- I’m preaching. The intent is to instill in you a love and respect for the language that will serve you well later in life. It’s difficult to be taken seriously if you don’t speak rationally and coherently.

Poor Calvin.. stuck with Birth Contract! LOL!!!

Awwww… poor Calvin.

If paragraph two specifies the bedtime, then what does paragraphs 1, 3 – 32 specify?

Rule 1: Parents make all the rules and do not have to consult you in advance.

2: Bedtime is 7:30 pm.3: If conflict over rule 2, please see rule 1.Etc….

The prom date is a long way off, but leave it to Hobbes to think of something to do with smooching.

Susie, obviously, and the next step will for Hobbes to point that out…

Click here: Peanuts (October 16, 1964)

Nah, I think Hobbes has called dibs on Susie…

“You’re not the boss of me!!”

Though, actually, he is until Calvin’s of age…

Calvin can become a free agent when he’s 18

Kids these days… The only way to beat ’em is at their own game.

The Snoopster I heard you talk about your accident with you bike. I thought much older than you and with two kids your age, my son left his boots and I did not notice them, I went to answer the phone and I stepped on the boot and twisted my ankle. This was long before you. Your break will heal more faster than a sprang will with no effects, just have a lot of patients. This happened 25-years-ago. I still have issues with my foot.

At the rate Calvin is progressing, he’ll have plenty of time to re-negotiate his contract before he’s eligible to attend a prom. Fourth grade might be the toughest 3 years of his life.

It’s obvious Calvin’s dad is a lawyer!

It’s odd to me that Calvin would care about a contract . . . he seems more like the type to believe that contacts are only for the rest of us peons. Any how, Calvin’s prom date might actually be relieved that he has a 7:30p curfew . .

7:30 is pretty early.

Let the fertilized egg fend for itself! NOT!However, Dad might not be the best de’fend’er!

I agree with that too. I don’t text. Texters make up these abbreviations and expect others to know what they mean. I, too, can easily forgive typographical, spelling and punctuation errors, though.

Considering how Calvin is doing in school, he’ll be older than 18 by prom time.

This is true parenting.

Lots of prom dates are “in bed” b4 7:30

Hobbes I am sure paragraph 2 could be amended or over looked for the prom.

Hobbes is assuming Calvin will even get a prom date!

LOL LOL… Good point, Hobbes.

I turn 18 this year.

xxx

Dad knows, what’s good for Calvin!

i was thinking that too.(even though he hates her as well)

time to call Melvin Belli.

And the only thing you get to go around in until that age will be the school bus…

Sorry to hear about your injury… Get well soonest!

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Was it in part from reading Sunday’s strip, with Dad’s mid-life crisis??? Ha ha ha!!!

@ The Snoopster (injured) – When and/or how has the word “probably” become reduced to “pry”? I’d seen “prolly” but I guess even that bastardization of the word was too cumbersome.

One day, when Calvin has to work overtime, he’ll appreciate his bedtime rituals.

I like Calvin’s dad’s comeback here.

I can see how you may have taken blueskies comment in the wrong way. No one is yelling at you, or trying to be rude. I believe the commenter was trying to point out that most of the kids that come here to play are late 30’s and up. I know that text language is natural to you, but I personally thought you had miss spelled TRY. All ages are welcome to come and play here. We just like to be able to understand each other. The majority here do not understand text language.I hope your leg gets better soon. :-)

I actually thought you meant “pray”…I was about to ask what you meant. No worries, though! :)

When my son was very little, I used to tell him things, like bedtime, were in the mommy rule book. When he was about 3 he wanted to see the book. I told him that he couldn’t. When he asked why, I told him that was the first rule in the book.

Word shortcuts pre-date text speak by decades, probably centuries. Words like “natch” instead of naturally, (I told him to get lost, natch. And he took it very well, in the circs.) or “circs” instead of circumstances. “U” replaced “you” in lots of circles long before phones were even invented, nevermind cellphones. I think it was always considered a bit of fun or a bit slangish, though. Not the proper thing to do in polite circles, but part of a youth culture.

Discounting the adult-sized vocabulary and other precocious traits, Calvin is overall a typical six-year-old. Hopefully by senior year he will have matured enough to be able to secure a date for the prom. Or, if he’s more mature by then than anyone ever expected, perhaps he will decide not to go at all.

Seen in many an autograph book (that’s what we had before computers, okay?) “UR2 good 2B4 gotten”.

You are aware, are you not, that there are children as young as 7 (and maybe even younger) checking this page daily? Please, keep your comments family-friendly, in the spirit of Calvin & Hobbes. That’s why most of us joined in the first place.

Now he and Hobbes go to sleep to meet in their dreams!

That requires a Statement of Emancipation. Calvin has to prove he is capable (financially and emotionally) of caring for himself. Undoubtedly, Hobbes will be able to provide guidance, but, Calvin on his own … I don’t think so.

Thanks, CrazyIrishOperaGirl. Here is the strip that you mentioned. It was one year after the beginning of Peanuts, and six months after Schroeder first appeared.Click here: Peanuts (November 20, 1951)

Funny thing to notice among comments: Here, Snoopster is being dinged for text-language; over on Non Sequitur he is being dinged for very mild profanity…bet you feel all beat up today. Don’t mind us old fuddy-duddies, we’re just old and cranky. ;-)

Ham Radio operators using Morse code have been using abbreviations for many years. For example, HPE TO (or 2) CU AGN.

Dad is so like Sheldon from TBBT.