Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 29, 2012

Dad sounds like a Democrat.

A concise analysis of the Federal Reserve.

Another great Dadsplanation!

He’s the bank guy’s brother.

Click here: Pearls Before Swine (June 19, 2011)

Click here: For Better or For Worse (June 19, 2010)

Click here: Ziggy (July 4, 2007)

Click here: Ziggy (February 23, 2000)

Never did figure out that garage door opener till now.Right Calvin

After hearing Calvin’s dad’s explanation, now I understand why ATMs always say, “Press Here.”(Sorry, Dogsniff…….. Hope I didn’t steal your line for today…….)

Complicated times nowadays!

Excellent parenting tips for the new parent!

@ Linux0s : Likedat!!

unless, your balance is below 20 dollars. then, no money for you.

Just like the guy who turns on the fridge’s light?

hello everyone i’m stay on the beach so nice.. miss you all…

This is a lot like a friend who said she couldn’t possibly be overdrawn because she still had cheques left.

Five dollar notes in an ATM machine, really?

They have ATM’s that can give you denominations other than twenties? Ah the good old days…

I always liked the band or symphony that crammed themselves into our stereo speakers – on demand!

The other day upon the stair,I met a man who wasn’t there.He wasn’t there again today.Oh, how I wish that he would go away.-Toured the set of Star Trek Voyager and Deep Space Nine (friend worked in art dept), got to sit in Janeway’s captain chair, got to go up to the bar…the doors whish open by someone pulling a rope or chain from the other side, just like a commenter suspected.-High tech, huh?

LOL LOL… Excellent strip.

xxx

Is the guy in the garage related to the monsters in my closet?

No he’s related to the guy in your refrigerator who turns the light on when you open it.

Very funny, love it. And now Calvin can impress his friends.

I always call them “magic money machines.” But now I have an explanation that doesn’t require magic.

Let’s not even go into the people that live in the television set. And I know Gremlins live in my computer.

How can a kid (Calvin) so sharp be so dumb? He actually believes his Dad’s BS!

Calvin is gonna have to unlearn a lot of your misinformation, Dad.

It’s funny (Maybe not funny, but tragic. There’s a fine line sometimes. A tragi-comedy perhaps. IDK) how a simple cartoon can evoke politics out of some people. It’s a cartoon people! If you want politics, make your comments on the op-ed page of your local newspaper where only other political geeks will read it and respond. Maybe. Please leave Calvin and his dad out of the political arena and instead use them as a point where we can all be in agreement for once.

Dad’s ATM scenario may be our future. The USPS lets us print our own postage. Maybe the US Govt will make us print our own money. Or script, or whatever. Think of the savings. No minting cost, no armored trucks, no bank vaults, etc. Or maybe it will be all “in the cards.”

I remember being with my Dad at my uncles service station when a customer came in and paid for his gas with a credit card. I asked my dad why he didn’t get one of those, so he could get free gas. His explation was not quite as much fun, he explained the finacial facts of life to me.

@orinoco womble,Did she ‘press’ you to tell her the truth?

@caseyatbat: You wrote, “How can a kid (Calvin) so sharp be so dumb?”Calvin is patterned after Linus from Peanuts in this respect. When Linus was younger, sometimes he would be extremely naive, and other times he would be highly precocious, using big words and complex sentences.Interestingly, research into highly gifted children has found that many of them experience “uneven development,” meaning that they can be years ahead of their age in some areas but not in others. Click here: Peanuts (July 3, 1956)Click here: Peanuts (July 6, 1956)

At my library you check out books electronically, and at the end it asks if you want a receipt if you say yes a receipt comes out. I used to think a mouse lived inside and printed out the receipt.

DAD 1, CALVIN 0.

I’m pretty sure it’s mice that lift the garage door and live in there.

ok…I never knew that..Dad r u smart?

From what I read here,I guess I was the only 5 year old that believed my older brother, when he told me to look under the bed.Before going to sleep every night.

Hear, Hear.

Hey, that’s the same explanation for how video games work in Wreck-It Ralph! The characters are all actors.

Haha! My parents used to tell me crap like this!! Brings back LOADS of memories!! Calvins SO INNOCENT! :*

At least we have some idea from where Calvin gets his imagination.

What about Kleenex bob?