Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 08, 2012

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    rentier  over 12 years ago

    The plants must grow better, it’s dung!!

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    Linux0s  over 12 years ago

    History of a mystery.

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    BRI-NO-MITE!! Premium Member over 12 years ago

    It takes over a year for the grass to grow back where a dog “marked territory”.

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    margueritem  over 12 years ago

    Urine is too concentrated for plants.

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    Odd Dog Premium Member over 12 years ago

    Mom and Dad might want to take a step back plants wont be only thing not doing well

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    rogue53  over 12 years ago

    Brings back memories of yesterday’s ‘water’ balloon. Watch out mom.

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    bahramthered  over 12 years ago

    A random dose of urine is good for plants. Sustained long term exposure is bad, just like over fertilizing.

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    GROG Premium Member over 12 years ago

    Hearing “splish, splash” may have given me the urge to take a bath. But for Calvin’s parents there’s some other kind of party going on.

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    Opus Croakus  over 12 years ago

    I don’t know about plants, but it’s definitely bad for grass. Ask anyone who has a dog with a favorite pee spot.

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    rentier  over 12 years ago

    A fine surprise for Mom and Dad! Certainly they can imagine a better shower!!

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    woodwork  over 12 years ago

    works to keep varmints out of the garden

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    Puddleglum2  over 12 years ago

    The plants on the other side of the house have it ‘made in the shade’!

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    Puddleglum2  over 12 years ago

    Calvin might go out the window, but that’s another ‘story’!

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    Puddleglum2  over 12 years ago

    Calvin’s plans might go out the window if his parents stay much longer!

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    Puddleglum2  over 12 years ago

    “Urine, you’re out; that same old ‘doo-doo’ follows you about.”I’m sorry, I couldn’t resist!

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    J Short  over 12 years ago

    Don’t eat the yellow snow, and watch out where the huskies go.

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    Hansternator  over 12 years ago

    PixieJaneYou need to come to our dog walking park and see all of the brown spots, dead trees and corroded dog walking sign posts. Oh yea, and the spots where my daughter’s dog pissed in the yard 2 months ago is still brown.

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    Nebulous Premium Member over 12 years ago

    In a general sense, yes, urea is a nitrate fertilizer.But just google ‘Fertilizer Burn’. Too many nitrate salts will damage plants.And since dogs are both creatures of habit, same place every time, and they “need to get the last word in”, same place as every other dog, they tend to cause fertilizer burn.

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    trimguy  over 12 years ago

    Far better to be pissed OFF than pissed ON

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    walruscarver2000  over 12 years ago

    The last time I heard this much discussion about some pissy nonsense the state legislature was in session.

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    LtPowers  over 12 years ago

    Composting converts the waste into useful material. On a farm, everything gets more spread out, rather than concentrated on one spot.

    Neither is at all comparable to concentrating urine deposits in one place over a long period of time.

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    chassimmons Premium Member over 12 years ago

    I think that Calvin’s urine would spread out enough (coming from such a height) that it wouldn’t do much damage. But it’s a good enough idea for a cartoon.In general, during composting things like ammonia come off, that’s why composted waste is good for plants while fresh urine or manure is bad.

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    Number Three  over 12 years ago

    I love the artwork of the house in the last panel.

    Are you sure you have not been visited by the ‘Tinkle Fairy’ and not a monster, Calvin?

    xxx

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    Clobbered by Science Premium Member over 12 years ago

    Calvin’s monster-avoidance method never would have worked for me as a kid. Because 1) I am a girl, and 2) Getting that close to the window would have left me vulnerable to monster attack via the bed-wall gap. That bed-wall gap was dangerous.ANDConcentration of nitrogen compounds is a major factor. Li’l bit all over: good. Lot in one spot: bad.

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    pouncingtiger  over 12 years ago

    Urine trouble when Mom and Dad find out, Calvin.

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    stevelydick  over 12 years ago

    It’s the salts in the urine that are harmful for the plants. Diluted, it’s fertilizer. Concentrated, it’s toxic.

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    StrangerCoug  over 12 years ago

    …I think any comment on my part would result in me being lynched.

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    Bill Chapman  over 12 years ago

    Dad at work the next day: “Last night was a whizzer, let me tell you!”

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    rentier  over 12 years ago

    One is sure! Urine stinks!

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    ratlum  over 12 years ago

    You could be anywhere in the world and entertain yourself with an imagination like that.40 below in the arctic no problem ,Sahara desert no problem,just pretend your some place with Space Man Spiff.

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    BRI-NO-MITE!! Premium Member over 12 years ago

    Urine turns into ammonia. In ancient Rome laundry workers used it to whiten clothes. Rumor has it that Cleopatra used to rinse her mouth out with urine to keep her teeth white.

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    guswild  over 12 years ago

    I had a weeping willow tree that had a ball diamond next to it. Well the stupid idiots used it as their outhouse and it died. Damn that pissed me off

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    sonnygreen  over 12 years ago

    Using the movie “World’s Fastest Indian” as a reference: Anthony Hopkins had a Lemon Tree in his yard that needed to be peed on daily.BTW: If Calvin had been peeing out the window, long enough for plants to show effect, his parents should be able to see the residual “tracks” from his window sill and down the siding.

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    Spyderred  over 12 years ago

    Not me but insteadDrAnders on the effect of urine on plants:Actually some plants can absorb pure ammonia and use it as a fertilizer. Ammonia produces the ammonium ion which is one of the nitrogen ions, the other being the nitrate, plants use to get nitrogen. In some countries ammonia is used as an artificial fertilizer. But with urine it is the decomposition of the carbamide it contains, by bacteria, into nitrates that makes it (carbamide that is) a good fertilizer. Carbamide is also the fertilizer that carries the most nitrogen per weight which makes it valuable in agriculture.

    The bacteria that converts carbamide into nitrate (usually with some loss via ammonia) aren´t found in urine. Urine is sterile. Those bacteria are found just about everywhere else though so the nitrification begins pretty much immediately as long as there is plenty of oxygen for the bacteria.

    Urine contains some salts too. Mainly sodium chloride. Plants need it too but in very small amounts. In greater amounts the urine becomes poisonous. Urine from animals usually contains more salts than human.

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    ewalnut  over 12 years ago

    I remember the vile proboscis.

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    Karaboo2  over 12 years ago

    An outhouse on the second story?, good thinking Calvin. Hahaaha

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    westny77  over 12 years ago

    Calvin is one funny dude

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    supersexyghotmew95  over 12 years ago

    he didnt (:O

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    thirdguy  over 12 years ago

    Dogsniff, and Hobbes, remember when my comment got yanked because I used the dreaded “p” word? It would appear that, that word is no longer verbotten. Perhaps it was the context in which I used it.

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    bmonk  over 12 years ago

    “But doesn’t Calvin have to get out of bed to get to the window?”

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    Look at panel 7 (last of the small ones)—Calvin’s bed is next to the window.

    Now, if he doesn’t have a screen on his window, he’s golden.

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    calvinsfriend110  over 12 years ago

    I guess urine good quality.

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    cookies333  over 12 years ago

    He better hope none of the neigbours saw!

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    Sliprod  over 12 years ago

    At my home it was a driveway, nobody knew.

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    mikehop23  over 12 years ago
    looks like He will have to sleep in a wet bed if does not want to get out.
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    Vonne Anton  over 12 years ago

    NO-ONE has commented on Calvin’s aim?!?!?! I always have to choose the tallest urinal to reduce sprinkling everywhere. His AIM from the second floor is awe-inspiring!

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    cosman  over 12 years ago

    Gives “peas in the pod” a whole new meaning..

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    dahawk  over 12 years ago

    Composted urine and excrement is entirely different from fresh.

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    tuslog64  over 12 years ago

    At least Calvin has an indoor bathroom to jog off to.I was in 4th grade before we had a house with indoor plumbing.

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