Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 31, 2012

He took the wheels off, maybe.

Be careful, Calvin: Dad may deconstruct what you are saying.

Open mouth, insert foot, Calvin.

Good morning, Hobbes.

Happy New Year, without screwdriverproblems!!

Thanx, Hobbes, for hammering home the point that even Linus knows it takes at least a good pair of pliers to wrench off a wheel (or three),

Happy New year 2013….all friends ….

My cousins twin brats, err boys, took her car engine apart when they were 12ish just to see if they could get it back together.

i put a fear into my mother once.when i was 15, she came home to a parlor filled w/ piano parts from my grandmother’s piano. all she said to me, was “i hope you have that back together before your grandmother gets home”..well it was all back together when gram returned..and the action didn’t stick anymore..go Calvin!!!

I would really love to see Calvin meeting Meg, wonder if they will cancel each other out or just cool off….

My brother, when he was 5, made the amazing discovery that if you stick a screwdriver in a wall outlet, you can turn the lights off in the entire house…

I sense some guilt.

As a 4 year old, I removed all the doorknobs in the house with a screwdriver. This did eventually lead to an engineering degree.

Awwwwwww! But at least you tried, Calvin.

Happy New Year Calvin, Hobbes and all you readers!

xxx

Good morning Marg, Denver Broncos, bluskies, Ghost01, and Dha Dha.Oops……. Good evening, Dha Dha. It’s almost bedtime there. I hope you had a good Christmas in Thailand. Yes, we have snow here in the midwestern U.S. Have you ever seen snow?

Better check all the appliances, Dad

Calvin’s left arm reverted back to when he was just a stick-figure.

Awwww! :-)

Man, that was one deconstructing paragraph..!

That’s why I never start conversations Calvin.. Will land you in good trouble, we already are in enough trouble

I don’t know. I’ll find out, and get back to you.

wonder what he took apart

Sounds like some school textbooks and most politicians. (No, that was not a political comment, it was a joke!)

MC,5.0 Stang rear ends were junk,that great engine ate’emButHe was gonna hack his iPhone,betcha…

@Snoopy_Fan: bmonk has added some interesting comments to the end of the December 27th discussion.

read a prank in a book. some guys loosened(not removed) all the screws in a classroom. so, with a slightest touch, the item would fall apart(desk, chairs, shelving, etc..) wonder if anyone else did that. i did hear about people putting furniture and stuff on the ceiling, so that the ceiling is the floor and the floor is the ceiling.

Hammers are better. yYou can take a LOT of things apart with a hammer. It’s harder to put them back together, though.

That was real funny! Happy News Year eve, Calvin & Hobbes and Peanuts!

What the strip says to me is that Calvin is basically a truth teller, a sharer of experiences, an adventurer who disdains the consequences. Couple that attitude with naivete and an inability to recognize what does not belong strictly to him, and you have either the next industrial genius or 10-20 hard labor. It might be why he manifests Hobbes as a conscience albeit one who gets tired of not having anything to guilt Calvin about so offers up temptation more than occasionally.

most shelving units, this laptop I’m using, most toys that use hard plastic (which was almost all of them when this comic was made,) actually a lot of things are held together with screws unless parts are nailed or welded into place.

Some of the folks in Congress should come to the same conclusion….

Hobbes – in Linus’ world, pliers are an attitude adjustment device…

Thanks Hobbes! : )

When I was about 10 yr old I took my mothers Brigs Staten gas motor apart,that run the washing machine,I was so proud when it fired up.Of course part way through the wash it quit.My Dad never tried to fix it.My boys liked fixing things too, but better at it in fact I encouraged them.

I do not think thats the right spelling of motor make.Happy New Year anyway.

 

To all my Calvin & Hobbes friends . . .

 

I want to know more about the guy living above the garage that opens the door.

I really took my laptop apart with a screwdriver — it was the kind with vodka in it!

When my younger brother was two and a half, he got hold of a screwdriver. He took every screw out of the book shelf. Mom went to grab one book, and it all fell apart!

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Maybe Calvin has a screw loose.

It was great seeing you over at Big Nate! Thanks for helping! : )

Hi cookies333 (and Tacopielvr, and GretchensMom, and everyone else……) Have a Happy New Year.

God help us if Calvin ever got ahold of Dr. Who’s sonic screwdriver!

Happy New Years, Hobbes, Puddleglum, Dogsniff, the Denver kid, and everyone!!!

Happy New Year, C & H! And all your fans. My fave strip all-time!

This was done the month before I was born. Linus rocks!

@Thirdguy, and to whom it may concern,“Beloved, I wish above all things that you may prosper and be in health, even as your soul prospers.” In short, (as Mr. Micawber would say), Happy New Year!

You are in deep doo-doo now son. Be very careful!