Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 23, 2010

They just don’t apply to homework…

What if you’re not hungry?

Calvin, tell them your overrun, heh heh

I’ll think about that!

Makes perfect sense to me.

Works for Hobbes!

G’Morning, Marg, Grog & Mike!

Hobbes, the deep thinking philosopher. Love it.

Huh?

I LOVE Hobbes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It’s “food, shelter and clothing”….Hobbes nailed the first one.

I kinda liked it!

Well said Hobbes.

Unless you strive and seek to learn When you are older, you won’t earn.

Sorry to post so late, was googling ‘aphorism’. Quite a literate tiger we’ve got here,

Good Morning All.

Ah Yes … Laws from the Jungle … Or Jungle Love … or whatever.

I am impressed that Calvin knows what an aphorism is. How many other 6-year-olds have “alphorism” in their vocabulary. :-)

Stop whining, and do your homework Calvin. If you were to devote half the time that you devote to complaining, you’d be done already.

Good Morning, Marg, Mike & ♠Lonewolf♠

Grog, we’ve been preaching that doctrine to students for years! And like Hobbes, we try to explain in ways they understand. But many are like Calvin, so lost in the forest of How to get Out of Work that they can’t see the short path out is call Just Do It. Nike and Hobbes…what a pair for early morning philosophy! Love it!

**Good morning Marg! Good morning Fran and Kizzzy! Good Morning L’Wolf! Good Morning Grog!**

Until you learn to ambush prey You’ll have a cook to always pay

6-year old knowing “aphorism?” How many adults know what it is? Deep stuff, Hobbes.

As florchi and algurka already noticed, Calvin has a vocabulary far beyond the norm for his age. He spends a lot of energy on not doing work, but the knowledge, it accumulates nonetheless. Oh, well.

Calvin puts off doing jobs Because he doesn’t think like Hobbes.

Friend U all(ignore the friend part)

See, the way I figure it, Calvin’s getting a very good education by thinking creatively about avoiding homework. It may not be exactly what the teacher had in mind, but if the goal is to get the kid to think - it’s working!

Besides, how else would he learn such a brilliant aphorism?

I can devour anything I like, as long as I don’t overun the fridge, wait…….did I miss the point?

What I find amazing with Calvin’s word usage there is a place with teens vocabulary is what big K and 1st graders use.

I think Calvin is living proof that we can learn through osmosis. Some are better at it than others.

Isn’t that the motto of corporate executives?

Calvin doesn’t have an advanced vocabulary, Watterson does. He just has Calvin say it.

I don’t know about the vocabulary. Plenty of young nerds have big vocabularies–especially those who read a lot.

OTOH, now that I think about it, I wonder where Calvin picked it up. His reading is more about dinosaurs, comic book superheroes, and the like…

I love Hobbes face in panel two, he looks do Wise!!! =)

I love Hobbes face in panel two, he looks so Wise!!! =)

I call this the “Beetle Baily Syndrom” - spending more energy avoiding work than it takes to do the work itself.

Of course, this could work to your benefit. If others have to constantly push you, eventually THEY come to the conclusion that it is easier for them just to do the work itself.

I call this “Applied Incompetence.”

Hobbes comes out with the darnedest stuff,that makes sense to the likes of me.And a chuckle to boot.

It’s so terrible hard to overrun!

I’m just wondering … whatever happened to the desert diorama he was just working on???? I’m curious as to the grade he got on it!

Another tiger tale, no doubt….

There must be a lot of future ENFPs (like Calvin and, as you now see, myself) and ENTPs out there in the classrooms. Teach them follow-through and they really shine. The problem is getting them to follow through in the first place.

Basically the problem is… oh, look, a squirrel! :))

Yeah Calvin, tiger aphorisms never did catch on… Too bad though….

My grade one teacher was right ,here 76 yrs old and I got to use a dictionary to read a cartoon,but its fun.

Lots of wit and funny stuff here today. Thank you Hobbes, whoever you are….