Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 07, 2021

It will be the end of the world as you know it, Calvin. It will go on the same for the rest of us.

Somehow Mom will get a nuclear war started as punishment for slashing the tires.

An angry mom is MUCH scarier than a nuclear war to a six year-old.

You’ll just have too let the air out of the tires again to find out, Calvin.

Is mentioning the REM too trivial?

you sure have a lot of time on your hands, Calvin

Have you ever noticed what car tire air smells like? Be honest now. Would you recognize it if you smelled it?

(yeah, I would)

I just fixed my tires ( plugs after pulling out nails after roofing ) and it takes 700 pumps with a bicycle pump to pump up a tire

I read an article the other day about what would happen if we had a nuke war today. Still bad, but not the end of the world. Seems the US and Russia have reduced the number of nukes that each country has to the point that a total nuclear exchange would not destroy the world now. Which is good.

Did he try playing the harmonica with car tire air?

Wait a few decades Calvin. The world as I knew it ended in the 90s.

Why must children exaggerate things to a great degree? ;D

I was just thinking of that song earlier today.

Yes, I fear that too!! Bible says, some will survive and I hope to be with these! Perhaps they can build a new, better world!!

The world as I knew it pretty much came to an end about 18 months ago. I dare say that’s the case for a lot of people, and it’s not getting any much better…

NOPE ! Ended on, 9 – 11 – 2001 Soooo Sad.

I think about the end of the world as I know it pretty much all the time. I think it started when I heard Elvis died. I miss Robin Williams too.

Poor Hobbes…I imagine he was enjoying his nap…

I don’t think she’ll need to actually catch you next time. Precedent applies.

Some things are not worth thinking about.

What? Is that something small boys do? Let the air out of tires?? As a small boy I think I did just about everything small boys do (except fall out of a tree and break my arm), and then some (sneak a cigareet—big mistake), but it never would have crossed my mind to let the air out of tires.

One for the perception as reality file.

I am aware that the uber-rich are thinking about/planning for it by making very sizeable investments in New Zealand that will grant them residency status. New Zealand was rated as one of the best/safest places to be if the apocalypse should come.

a bit of it ends every day, really

Going back to Hobbes’s question: Yes, a nuclear war.

Things could be worse.

While the planet may not be destroyed, like the smoke plume that has circumnavigated the planet, so shall radiation that has a half life of 600 years. In the CF we were taught to inject ourselves with anto radiation goop from a tube into our thigh. All that to live 24 more hours to do our damnedest. No one gets out alive. Embrace the darkness.

I counted 8 R.E.M. comments before this one.

Calvin, you little rascal.

Nuclear Winter – the cure for global warming. Only the dictatorship of the proletariat can stop it all.

Oh, that would be much worse than a plain ole NW.

“My fear is if she ever again catches me letting the air out of the tires.”

Let’s get back to tires: I remember and old Dennis the Menace cartoon: In the background is his dad’s car with one flat tire. Dennis is telling his friend “I just found a new way to blow up balloons.”

Hobbes:“What do you mean WE human ?”

STILL gotta wonder what he grows into…

You’ll feel fine.

How did he… Why would he… What the… Just, why? How?