Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 28, 2010

Sigh…..

Wrong girl, Calvin. It would have been better if you did that to Susie. Priceless. LOL

Frankly, Calvin, you got off easy.

Calvin, always look before you spray. Or did you?

Well, what did you expect, Calvin?!

G’Morning, Mike, Marg & Grog!

ouchie

Calvin, you’re supposed to yell “Gottcha” first….

“Frankly, Calvin, you got off easy.”

In hindsight, panel 5 was probably a bad idea Calvin !

Thanks for yesterday’s comment, Puddleglum2.

Bad move Calvin.

This one reminds me of Michel from Lönneberga (the wonderfol book written by Astrid Lindgren). He always had such “interesting” ideas and he always ended in a barn to “think” about what he had done.

look at it from calvin’s side, mom!

marg… was it for Calvin that he didn’t understand why Mom did it to him or for Mom for doing it to Calvin?

Is that what they call applied learning?

“Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.” Proverbs 22:15

Autsch!!

That was a ‘slip’. Mom, take your shower BEFORE you get dressed! “Splish Splash” - Bobby Darin (1958)

When I was a child, my mother had a very expensiv piano and I liked it to scratch my drawings into soft wood or polished furniture. So I scratched a big star into the front of the expensive piano, when my mother found this, I had a bottom like Calvin here in the last panel!

billdi said (yesterday), “I wait with anticipation for an antidote to today’s punsters.” “Anticipation” - Carly Simon

Your anticipation looks like participation to me, with ‘pun’ctuation. However, It’s far better than your usual ‘ant’ics. I think you’re making a mountain out of an anthill, but okay, let’s have no ‘more on’ ants! We’ll get to ‘the seat of the matter’ and leave the ants ‘behind’.

No forgiveness for this one. When i was a kid and my dad would be scolding me me for something I did, he would ask me “Don’t you stop to think that you are going to get in trouble before you do things?” To which I would answer “yes.” In some cases getting in trouble was worth the fun of doing whatever it was I was getting scolded for.

Amazing how a little water spray affects one’s attitude!

Have to wonder if it was worth finding C. in the tree and taking him home, safely. Poor Mom.

You may not be sitting down for a while, Calvin.

Good Morning, Marg, Mike & ♠Lonewolf♠

I LOVE the stars around his behind….good visual..

Yeah, my mom could be a grouch like that, too, sometimes.

What is worth more a) a red rump and a smile b) what I shoulda done was—-

Did you have a deprived or depraved childhood?

I can’t believe you guys are acting like these comic strip characters can actually read your comments. It’s foolish to make such assumptions.

Right, Calvin?

look at it from calvin’s side, mom!

Yeah… and THEN clobber him!

Let’s see Mom getting dressed from the get go. Woo-woo!

haha..calvin has never failed to make my day..i love this comic..i’m a gigantic fan..

Oh, Puddleglum2….sigh. Too clever for mere words. Calvin must be a greater influence on you than you realize!

is there a puddleglum1?

SURPRIZE !!! ! ! ! GOTCHA !!! ! ! ! For both Mom and Calvin.

Tonight’s dinner should be a heaping bowl of brussel sprouts and lutefisk.

Pretty frumpy dress, Mom. Just sayin’ …

Lew…………….

“I was depraved on a account’a I was deprived”

(West Side Story)

Push the family car into a ditch, get hugged.. spray a little water on Mom, get your hide tanned.

No wonder the poor kid is confused.

Ah, c’mon, Droptma… I got a dress just like that hangin’ in my closet—the latest thing!

Mom will laugh at this in the coming years.

Yes, Stano Aston–in many years to come. When she’s about 50-60.

This is the “Right place”….. he got awarded …for what he did…

Today’s comic is the only one I can recall that shows Calvin actually getting his mischievious little butt swatted.

Watterson was very careful that way, and rightfully so.

there’s also a puddleglum1066; i suppose c.s. lewis would be proud, or mildly amused.

“Love is wanting to hug and strangle your kid at the same time.” - Erma Bombeck (if I remember correctly)

A water hose has a mind of its own,but you got the warm pants.

About time for a warm bottom. in the store you can always hear the kids of parents who are “very careful”.

The butt-bone is connected to the common-sense-bone, and sometimes they need a few good swats to get ‘em harmonized.

cleo,, Calvin will love that. And Mom will probably end up wearing it.

When my son was about 4 years old we went to the beach and he was playing nicely in the sand with some kids his age. I was working on my tan laying on my stomach and probably nodded off a bit listening to the music on the radio. Out of nowhere my son came over and dumped a cold pail of lake water on me, my radio, and our dry clothes, etc. We left the beach promptly that day with me soaking wet and nothing dry to wipe off on or wear back home. I had to leave the car open when we got home to dry out the seats. I was prepared there after with extra towels in the car and left our clothes in there too. The incident never happened again after that of course!

♫ ♪ CALVIN! You deserve it! ♪ ♫ LOLs! X-D

My mother beat the living daylights out of both my sister and I for infractions far less than this. If we had done something like this, we would have been in danger of being killed on the spot. Fear God and your mother and live…..

calvin should learn how to behave but then it wouldnt be as funny lol

Good story, Dino. Got the picture, haha!

Of course, now Mom would probably be locked up and Calvin sent to Child Protective Services for such ‘cruelty,’ but that’s the way it went in the good ol’ days.

Dino-1 This was surely a very fine surprise!

Dino-1: Great story! Out of curiosity, is the reason that something like this never happened again was because your son’s bottom “saw stars” afterwards (like our dear little Calvin’s) … or was it because you were completely prepared for it to happen again but, fortunately, it just turned out to be a one-time incident?

Hey, it’s SUMMER and it’s H-O-T!!!

“Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.” Proverbs 22:15

Very good “Puddleglum2”, but I don’t think even that will work with Calvin.

Rofl Calvin

This might get him killed.

Cognizant, I thought of making a partial disclaimer, but I let you do it. This is an example of a statement from the Bible that isn’t guaranteed all the time. BTW, does your name have any connection with Jinx, the cat from the Pixie and Dixie cartoons. One of his famous comments was, ” I am uh- cognizant of that fact.”

I was surprised that no one really commented on the corporal punishment until grazer (approx 40th comment). I agree with him. khpage, to “beat the living daylights” out of a child for an infraction that does no damage or injury (or, for less than that) doesn’t seem wise to me. You may be OK, or even the better for it. But the world is full of people who aren’t: those who commit arbitrary cruelties that stem from pent-up rage, frustration, disrespectedness, and failure to ever learn to discipline one’s self voluntarily. I agree with grazer because we don’t need to create more of that.

LMAO…!!

Uh, Calvin…

Looks like she spanked him.

The first time I have ever seen any punishment given to Calvin!