Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for September 13, 2022

Next time, check the settings.

Might make for a nice and dangerous adventure. Go for it, Calvin.

Is there a Junior Fireman in the house?

tough, Calvin

I will never fly on Calvin Airlines.

Toast smoker

Yay, another burnt offering……

As I programmer, I’m always petrified when I think about how well the software I’ve written is tested (yes, some), knowing that modern life depends on software to continue working at all. Some of my code went to Mars, which is very very cool. Some of it could be found in heart monitors… Scary.

That’s why you should never fly on a jet made by KitchenAid.

At least he was standing there watching it. If he had left the room, it could have caught fire. I threw away one toaster because it became defective in this way.

It is beginning to look like some rides at county fairs should not be touched. When they are moved from one county to another, mistakes can be made while putting them together.

Being an ex-collector of toasters, my earliest being 1907 models. I am surprised more homes didn’t burn down and more people permanently scarred from the burns. I have one left, an all ceramic 2 slice. Sold most to collectors in Australia

I remember when my brother (very like Calvin) decided to butter his bread before putting it in the toaster. Margarine causes grease fires.

It’s usually user error. Or manufacturing error. Either way, it’s almost always a human’s fault.

It’s not the fault of the toaster. There is this little tray on the bottom that you have to pull out and empty the crumbs once in a while. Not everyone knows that.

It isn’t the toaster, it’s the untrained operator.

Burned toast, a new one!

Calvin, nowadays airline passengers are more afraid of catching COVID from their fellows than from the plane malfunctioning!!

Well, Calvin, I’m not going on a plane ever again and as far as appliances, I have never had luck with electric can openers, vacuum cleaners, and toasters! You can scrape the toast or just get another slice of bread! LOL

Calvin is now the (burnt) toast of the town!

As a wise man once said, anything that large and heavy ought not be flying….

Shudda bought AMERICAN MADE!

Turning the toaster setting up does not make toast faster.

Thing is, the people who build airplanes are likely to ride in them someday.

If Boeing made toasters.

As long as the left phalange is ok then the plane is fine. Phoebe to Rachael, last episode of Friends…

It has been said that when to first Gemini astronauts were waiting to blast off, one of them said “Just think this rocket was built by the lowest bidder”

Another relevant strip considering the irrational fears and stupidity of a good majority of the population.

And this is why they stopped selling toasters with a “flambé” setting.

I’d rather board an airplane than make toast. If something screws up with the plane, at least it won’t have been my fault.

Does anyone actually ever use the highest setting on a toaster? Does anyone like black toast?

I smell Wilder Penfield,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Operator error. Note to self – do not board plane if Calvin is pilot.

Remember the Flying Toasters? Nobody was afraid of them.

I still find it amazing that we made it to the moon and back with less computing power than that which you have in your mobile phone…

I believe an astronaut was once asked what he was thinking about during the launch of his mission and he replied, “That everything on this rocket was built by the lowest bidder.”

Good question.

And that was the last slice of bread. Darn.

You know what they say: “All toasters toast toast!”

I’m sure a toaster could be designed better. There are engineers who get paid to do that.

LOL… I bet always has made Calvin’s toast for him before. Live and learn, Calvin – check the setting before starting the toaster.

I remember hearing somewhere that the toaster’s design is pretty much the same since its inception

Considering what my toaster does to bread at #5, I don’t know why it goes to 7.

All the more disturbing is that scientists are still debating exactly how airplanes manage to fly. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-one-can-explain-why-planes-stay-in-the-air/

LOLOL

The “darkness” knob on the toaster has a very fine distinction between “untoasted” and “blackened.” If you crank it all the way up I imagine it will set fire to your house.

Calvin left the settings on so high, his toast got burnt to a crisp.

Maybe you just need a new toaster.

Calvin, check with Snoopy, the ace pilot, how he manages the sopwith camel like a pro.

The airplane isn’t usually the problem, the operator on the other hand…

Someone said Isaac Asimov wouldn’t get on an airplane. I worked almost 40 years in the aircraft industry. I worked mainly in helicopters. I won’t fly in a commercial airliner. It’s not the initial build that bothers me. The quality of the initial build is very good. Some of you may jump on the V-22 Osprey that crashed in the Potomic early on in the program. The bobble head news things on TV made much of the fact that it came apart. It did, by design. So that troops involved in a wrecked aircraft could get out.When my Dad was a teenager, he and a friend drove people non-stop from St. Louis to Los Angeles, then carried people from Los Angeles to St. Louis.The reason? A lot of people were afraid to ride a train.