Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 15, 2009

I love the transition from the list of toxic chemicals in panel one to…but aside from that, it’s not much like earth.

bmonk says: [yesterday] Especially since it uses “grok”; wasn’t sure that anybody else still remembers such things.   I don’t think it’s a question of remembering - it’s a question of age and exposure. Once you’ve read Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land, you never forget grok.

baslimthebegger says: Push comes to shove, I don’t think Mom’s going to fall for that…

Baslim, you’re having way too much pun with this one

No Calvin, she doesn’t want to lean over it. Now get in!

Oh! Calvin! Don’t do it you will be in soooo much trouble! His defence will probably go… ‘But Mom it’s not my fault you had been tansmogified into a vile, ugly and smelly alien, I did it for the good of the Earth…’

TheSkulker says: ’I don’t think it’s a question of remembering - it’s a question of age and exposure….’

It’s definately down to exposure in my case… I’m not quite that old

Heinlein is ageless and timeless, his themes universal. Once told a political science course based on his book “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.”

Hmmm, time to reread all my Heinleins!! Thanks for reminding me.

The monster has to be Calvin’s mother and Spaceman Spiff has to be Calvin so at the last panel, Mother tells Calvin to get in now! Why did Calvin test with his finger to feel if the water in the bathtub is hot enough or not before he gets into the bathtub? Mother knows what to do with that. Calvin doesn’t.

Calvin, you’ll be in hot water either way.

throwaway joke = hilarious!

Heinlein was one of the best sci-fi authors ever. (along with Asimov) I used to wait breathlessly for a new book from him. My favorite is “The Number of the Beast” followed closely by “The Door Into Summer”.

Only Calvin could turn a nice warm bubble bath into some heinous space odyssey.

Love it.

The most obnoxious phrase for a six years old is: “Into the tub with you !”

This confirms it! Calvin is a Son-of-a-Zorg!

Trying to con his Mom into leaning over the tub. That takes guts!

SPACEMAN SPIFF my favorite. He could have had his own strip. And the world would have been better for it.

Shades of Hansel and Grettle.

Mom’s cruel! lol

The transistion from Spiff to the real Calvin alwayz funny!!

Leonardeuler says:

“The most obnoxious phrase for a six years old is: ‘Into the tub with you !’”

And the second most obnoxious? “Out of the tub now!”

Avoiding The Bath

marg. i havent seen post from you in a while. are you okay?