Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 14, 2009

Why, something to cool you off.

You can’t fool pesty little boys.

Hope it’s filled with icy water. hee hee

Can’t wait to see the next strip!

“Bihydrogen oxide bomb” Nice one Maresha. I’ll have to remember that.

Luv Hobbes’ expression in the second panel - talk about being disingenuous.

Ooooh Hobbes aggravates to throw Calvin water balloon! Cool off during hot summer day!

Hobbes is showing excellent control of his claws. I don’t think my cats could hold a water balloon without popping it!

Sure they can. Cats can pull those claws in and have the gentlest paws and touch your face in the most loving way. I have had cats for over 40 years and had many a gentle cat.

Di-hydrogen oxide, by any other name, will get Calvin just as wet. :)

EMET, if memory serves: bi- points to two negative ions; di- points to two positive ions. Water has two positive ions.

My girlfriend used to have an apartment downtown. Her neighbors and her used to drop waterballoons on each other and their friends from their second-storey apartment windows in the summer. Once in awhile an innocent by standard would get hit though and they’d get in trouble but it never stopped the fun. I learned about it when I was going to the bank and hardware store downtown one day and my friend dropped one on my head as I was walking by her building. It was a hot day so it was a relief after the cold water shock wore off. I definitely got some comments walking into the bank and hardware store drenched afterwards! Good times! Good times!

I think I remember it as hydrogen hydroxide, but that was in another life. Still just as wet.

Water is only wet!

Not so harmfull as pulled out trees.

Get ready for a water war.

I hope Hobbes don’t make a mistake - so easy made in a laboratory - and don’t use dihydrogen dioxide. He he he ….. I wonder what the effect would be in that case.

Calvin would never do such a dirty trick

I should have gotten up earlier. This cartoon is begging for oodles of comments, and the early birds have already appeared. Firstly, let’s start a controversy. Strictly speaking, shouldn’t it be “What do you have in back of your back?” Behind connotes action; in back of is passive. I realize everybody says it the way Calvin did. I’ll be BACK later. I can hear a chorus of “Thanks for the warning”. I’m not sneaky as Hobbes is (not LIKE HOBBES).

Dino that was a hilarious story. Only nowadays if you accidently drop one on a stranger they’re likely to sue.

Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide! http://www.dhmo.org/

@maresha that would be DIHYDROGEN MONOXIDE. sorry chemistry is a fun past time… and it is encapsuled in a polymer cocoon…. HEHE :D

Calvin’s on to your game, but don’t let that stop you. Let him have it.

You say pah-tot-oe, I say po-tate-oe… is there something about Calvin and Hobbes that attracts chemists?? All are equally valid in various contexts, but as a chemical engineer, I prefer Superfrog’s hydrogen hydroxide - more clearly communicates the nature of the acid/base beast that it is (ionizing as it does into hydrogen and hydroxide ions).

Ahhh,, but I digress and bore y’all to tears, I’m sure. Much more interesting to wonder what the next strip holds…

It’s a good thing the car won’t start to go BACK home. Otherwise, Calvin and Hobbes would be in trouble for malingering (two days). It started as an ice pack, but the heat from the solar panels in Hobbes’ tummy went through his back and melted the ice.

Subtle little questions to justify a subtle little mission!

As I was taught whilst growing up…if you can safely take a bath, you can safely walk under a dihydrogen oxide bombing…or, something to that effect…but, then again, were talking Calvin here, where baths are geysers of super-heated water, sooooooo…

nice try hobbs, but calvin is one step ahead again

hobbs water balloon isn’t as big as the one on this video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziuUr_golNc

Heh, wait until I introduce you all to someone I know at the University of Houston. He could point out to you all the combinations of hydrogen and oxygen that are found in water (some of which, he claims, are actually carcinogens).

DHMO.org is a trip! :) My friend would love that site!

I also used to call it Hydrohydroxic acid. But, by whatever name, this substance really needs to be strictly controlled. Overdoses kill! It is the largest component in almost every alcoholic drink! In solid form, it is very dangerous, killing hundreds of drivers every year when it gets under their cars or trucks! I could go on, but you get the idea.

Fishstix: Thanks for the link. It’s hilarious.

I t’ink there is something about Calvin/Hobbes that attracts chemists. A friend of mine has here Masters in Chemistry and just loves Calvin/Hobbes. I minored in Chemistry….

link looks promising (dhmo). thanks fishstix, i’ll have to check it after work. a reason for another visit, not that i need an excuse!

@Maresha: how did you change your screen name? i wasn’t aware it was possible.

A.

How did they get home with a dead battary and Dad’s broken glasses??

Hobbes’ suprise is actually a watermelon…..a gallon of water for Calvin’s melon.

Comments very interesting Hobbes let him have it

GOOD GRIEF!!! What a bunch of techno-termites! Can’t we all just enjoy a classic Calvin & Hobbes’ water balloon cartoon strip without all the scientific and political bull-crap???

“Groversfather said, about 1 hour ago

GOOD GRIEF!!! What a bunch of techno-termites! Can’t we all just enjoy a classic Calvin & Hobbes’ water balloon cartoon strip without all the scientific and political bull-crap???”

Agreed

what happened to the camping trip???? this looks like their back in the back yard playing…..and if their still camping….how did Hobbes fill the balloon?

I’m no chemist…so I skipped those comments.

As for the camping trip, it was over last week.

GOOD GRIEF is Charley Brown from Peanuts. Groversfather is in the wrong comic strip. Maybe he should move out of Grover’s Corners if he doesn’t like “Our Town”. Cactusjack probably sat on the spines of one. I’m the one who should be complaining. Many comments have been made about chemistry and none about English Grammar. Some are informative and some are amusing, and ‘never the twain shall meet’.

yyyguy , go to your home page, and click on profile. Click on edit profile. That should give you a box where you can remove yyyguy, and put in something else of your choice.

No, OldHipster, you can’t. :) You’ll be wearing so many flags you’ll think you “wuz” the United Nations.

Macushlalondra: I agree they were very fortunate that no one ever called a lawyer. We live in a small town so I think people tend to have a better sense of humor here about pranks then in a more populated city. She said the cops came up occasionally and would give her and the others a stern talking to about the water balloons so they’d have to quit for the day. The next day things were business as usual. I still get the warning when going to the bank on a hot summer day to avoid that area because the balloons are flying! It’s good to know some traditions continue!

I’m definitely with THEDRIVER on this one. If they’re now back home again, why didn’t it show them driving home like it showed them driving to their camp-site? With dad’s glasses broken, how did they get home? Did mom drive or could dad still see well enough without them (like I can) to make it home safely? Just wondering why this particular comic strip was left (what felt like to me) unfinished when B.W. spent so much time on their camping trip — both getting there and while it was going on.