Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for February 11, 2010

Uh-oh……

It’s great to have a best friend to talk about everything! It relieves!

We’ll just have to wait for the 6:00 news then.

I’ve got a bad feeling about this…..

Sounds like FIRE ALARM issues….LOL

It’s ok Calvin Everybody gets into trouble…..(sometimes, unlike you). It may not have been your fault! Maybe you were just being curious!

Maybe the event is on a rerun of “Cops”. Of course Hobbes’ and Calvin’s faces would be blurred out.

Not that blurring faces would disguise Hobbes. The stripes would be a dead give-away.

… Being from Deming, NM. a town that has been touched by a school shooting and death I find it helps to keep in mind this comes from a time when as a Nation we were unaware that sirens at noon and schools would bring back such dark memories. So Calvin it would be my guess whatever it was it fails in comparison to what we see in our schools today?

Waterson’s genius is that he can trigger our imagination to run wild while never having to confirm or deny.

well hobbes is a imaginary thing so it is hard for him to understand….!!

what did you do calvin?surprised that you’re not locked in your room for ten years,lol.

Must have been the infamous “salamander incident”.

Well, Calvin! Sirens and everything. It sounds like one of the greater moments in your life. Good going Bubba.

Had a kid call in a bomb scare when I was in high school. He took some time off.

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Well, they really shouldn’t have left the science lab unattended. What did they expect?

Brake fluid and clorox when mixed together makes smoke and lots of it.

Well he did say he was going to go for the gusto yesterday.

I don’t know if this was before or after, but it if it was earlier than the others in the story, maybe this is the noodle incident!

I accidentally set off the fire alarms at a university library tower, and headed back to my study carrel pretending that I was doing research. I had opened the wrong door to the stairwell because I just wanted a smoke. I still feel guilty, almost 40 years later.

Film at eleven.

This is one of my favorite strips!

I agree with Praxsis. I think he set off the fire alarm.

Yukoner said: ”Waterson’s genius is that he can trigger our imagination to run wild while never having to confirm or deny.”

Well said and so true. Trying to fill in the blanks is fun. (–I’m thinking the incident had something to do with Spaceman Spiff and the overhead sprinkler system.)

The sirens were all screaming because of Calvin’s scheming.

Applause for Calvin!!!

I used to work in a residence for special needs adults. The one guy i worked with loved firetrucks. He loved the lights, the sirens, and the firemen. Once in a while he’d get a tickle on his butt to pull the fire alarm, it was wired to an automatic dialer. He’d get excited because once the alarm was pulled, we’d have to evacuate the building, regardless if it was a real fire, and go out and watch the firetrucks come. After so many times of being billed for false alarm responses by the city the agency i worked for moved the pull station up higher on the wall where he couldn’t reach it.

you know calvin, if it was you who pulled that fire alarm, they used to put a dye on the alarm handle that would show up under black light

Is it illegal to wear costumes at school these days? (see previous strip http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2010/02/10/)

Smack on, Yukoner!!!

everyone, this is the noodle incident. i believe it has to do with going for the gusto, yesterday.

i love Calvin and Hobbes. they are, have been, and will be my all-time favorite comics

My opinion would be the famed “noodle incident” since it would fit in chronologically with the story; however, we don’t get to find out, sadly enough. Aliens and charcoal fill tomorrow’s C&H comic if i recall correctly

Not the noodle incident, I believe, but how would we know either way? Bill’s genius was to point to the outrageous, and leave it to the reader to fill in the gaps. Which we do so much more imaginatively for the lack of details.

It could be the noodle incident, it could be the salamander incident, it could be the fire alarm incident, it could be…..

Reading everybody´s input makes the strip come to life with a vengeance, and I enjoy the comments as much as the strip itself.

You guys rock!!

Pulling a fire alarm would be pretty unimaginative “trouble” for a kid as creative as Calvin. I can think of lots of more interesting things that many of our “modern” school districts would probably go to “RED ALERT” about…

– Brought transmogrifier “gun” to school (zero tolerance) – Kissed Susy (Sexual Harrassment). – Used his time machine to prove “theory” of evolution. (enraging creationist school districts) – Suggested that he & Hobbes should be allowed to marry. (enraging “traditional family” advocates.) – Caught reading Catcher in the Rye or Lord of the Flies or any number of other frequently banned books. – Asked when Sex Ed would be offered in school (enraging the “abstinence” crowd) – Voicing his opinion that Sarah Palin is “retarded” – Caught utilizing independent thought. (Rather than simply drinking the Kool-Aid and then regurgitating the thoughts, dogma and opinions of others.)

Yep. Throughout much of America, any one of those would probably require activation of the National Guard!

Take a look at the color strip that appears under today´s Calvin and Hobbes daily strip.

See the image in the far right, where they are making faces to the camera and Hobbes is giving horns to Calvin? That is the image you´ll see soon in a post stamp near you.

What sirens

In the interests of ‘balance’. . more red alert scenarios (including the first two):

– Brought transmogrifier “gun” to school (zero tolerance) – Kissed Susy (Sexual Harrassment). – Used his time machine to prove “theory” of creation. (enraging evolutionist school districts) – Suggested that he & Hobbes are different species & should never marry. (enraging “gay rights” advocates.) – Caught reading the Bible or any number of other taboo books. (enraging the Christian haters that call themselves atheists) – Asked when abstinence education would be offered in school (enraging the “sexual promiscuity” crowd) – Voicing his opinion that Barack Obama is incompetent – Caught utilizing independent, critical thinking. (Rather than simply drinking the Kool-Aid and then regurgitating the thoughts, marxist dogma and pc opinions of others.)

of course, most of that would not happen as few of those conditions/people were around or in the forefront when Watterson wrote this strip.

Why can’t we just keep the discourse to the comics . .

It couldn’t have been too serious since he’s here to walk home with Hobbes. If it had been very serious the police would have hauled him down to the police station and called in his parents and he may have been being hauled off to juvenile detention as we speak.

Even back in the day, his parents would have been called to come and get him, at the very least, and he would have been suspended for doing that.

Why would anyone who knows what they’re talking about continue to suggest that Calvin would ever kiss Susie? They HATE each other. It’s not repressed love, it’s HATE. They’re 6. 6 year old boys hate girls, and Susie has no tolerance for Calvin. They remain 6. They never grow up, so there is no some day either. She’d be lucky if he took the time to offer her some of his maggot, sewage sandwich. That’s the way this goes.

The rest of that hateful, politically juvenile comment is also an example of profound lack of comprehension, and insensitivity of the left, who always demand sensitivity from others, and it also got you flagged as inappropriate, spiderlegs.

@Vonnegut, I’m guessing that who are the type that likes to just walk up to a bear and poke it with a stick? LOL. No worries, I think I get you! Please keep discoursing. It’s nice to read posts more clever than “gee, that’s funny!” and “my brat does that too!”

@midiranger, It’s wildly unfair to characterize “atheists” as “christian haters”. Atheists are generally tolerant, happy, loving folks who don’t feel threatened by Christians or their beliefs. However, as your comment suggests, a great many Christians are very threatened by the very existence of athiests, which helps explain their obsessive need to constantly proselytize and recruit in order to calm their fears.

And what odd community do you live in that has a “pro-promiscuity” crowd? That’s like politicians who tout being against crime. Is there anyone running on the pro-crime ticket?

Hello there Mr. Bear! poke. poke. poke.

Vonnegut: Colbert deserves a medal for that one.

mrslukeskywalker, calvin and susie do not hate each other. you obviously dont remember the dead flowers he gave her on valentines? look at that strip,they are in love. as far as the sirens, he was probably on top of the school trying to fly.( he had his cape and helmet )

Parody is the sincerest form of Flattery.

They are NOT in love.

MrsLS seems to be a lot more perceptive and helpful in commenting on comics than on the comments to them! I’ll bet that’s because the comics are rarely as inflammatory as the commenters (and I suspect MrsLS, like many people, would consider it a waste of time to comment on or even read Boondocks).

Problem is, the only one I saw advocating for “hate” (for Calvin, at least) or even making a hateful comment is also the first one to mention hate - i.e. MrsLS. I happen to agree with beenthere that hate is, in fact, frustrated attraction or fondness. (The opposite of love is uncaring, not passionate hate.)

I’ll accept that it would be better if people keep their politics out of these comments … but only because just about any political belief these days is considered “hate” by whatever fat segment of the population disagrees with it. It’s that whole culture, not just one of those political expressions, that’s hopelessly “juvenile”. Calvin is not the place for anything quite that juvenile. Let “the child [be] father to the man” here!

When I was 6, I would have said that I didn’t like girls if asked. And I admit that I often behaved very badly toward some of the little girls I knew.

Yep. You guessed it. I WAS IN LOVE WITH EVERY ONE!

(and @beentheredonethat – on the roof ready to fly? That’s the best guess all day! Good job!)

i think today’s strip is the noodle incident. here are my reasons why: if you get the complete calvin and hobbes you’ll notice that a mention of the ‘salamander incident’ was before this strip, also all the noodle incident mentions have come after this strip.

here is my theory of the incident: (i am not saying it’s true but it’s a hunch) during lunch hour calvin chose this moment to leave school. the cafeteria was surving noodles for lunch, the noodles could have been very hot while cooking, at the right time calvin ran off and decided to make a break for it through the cafeteria kitchen, in the process ms. wormwood chased after him and he accidentally knocked over the boiling noodles, they might have landed on and burned ms. wormwood. that would be why the sirens would come for an ambulance. hobbes mentioned that it was around noon and around noon is lunch-time which fits my theory.

that is my noodle incident theory.

At our last Class Reunion one of the quiet girls in our class confessed to me and a couple others that she was the one that called in the bomb alert at our school. I wanted to swat her because I was in gym class in shorts, t-shirt, and sneakers and then standing in the snow freezing to death. We weren’t allowed to get on our regular clothes or even grab a jacket and we were out there for almost a hour. She just wanted to miss a test she hadn’t studied for. What a selfish thing to do!

I found your post Vonnegut to be amusing. It was creative and provocative. Maybe Calvin doesn’t love Susie but he sure does like her a lot. I remember Hobbes insinuating this in a few strips. I find it charming!

Baffling, simply baffling.

Calling in the bomb threat is more than selfish, it could have been dangerous. Diverting of emergency resources is not in the least amusing when someone might actually not get needed help (pretty sure it’s illegal too).

According to my mother (who remembers it better than I do because I don’t remember it at all given that I was probably only about 5 years old), there was a little boy in my kindergarten class that I talked about incessantly and called my “boyfriend”. She said that I was madly “in love” with him and that I planned on marrying him someday!!!!! I didn’t, of course, but still … it’s obvious that I liked little boys when I was even younger than Susie! While I don’t remember anything about my great kindergarten “love story”, it’s highly doubtful that he was anything like Calvin because I couldn’t have gotten past all his grossed-out “sandwiches” any more than Susie could!

Aarvark359 - agreed. REAL atheists are not generally Christian haters, nor are Christianas ‘threatened’ by genuine athiests. I was referring to the plethora of Christian haters that like to call themselves atheists, sullying the name. Those that seek out Bible and Christian themed boards and attack everything Christian. They obviously feel threatened by religion in general and Christianity in particular. Like most of the hard leftists I’ve run across they seem so insecure in their beliefs they HAVE to convince everyone who disagrees with them that they’re wrong. The genuine, honest atheists I’ve met felt no such compulsion. They were truly live and let live folk.