Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 19, 2012

This one is hilarious- every time.

When I was a little child my grandfather filled a glass with grinded pepper. I said:“Let me look”, and of course I put my nose in the glass, I thought, I must die, I went like Calvin!

That must be the spicy mustard.

for an encore, try horseradish, the the Grand Finale: chinese mustard!

Calvin, only a fool would jump off a cliff in order to see what was at the bottom.

When I was a youngster I noticed that my dad had some hand cleaner in the garage. I wondered what it smelled like. After all most of them that I had smelled up til then were very flowery. That was when I found out about a substance called ammonia. I damn near fell on the floor.

Yeah, well, it beats sniffing glue for the “high” he got.

This brings back memories of when my older sister 11, and uncle 10 dared each other to eat a spoon full of horseradish. Whoop Dee Do ! !

Dry wasabi powder. You can confirm the existence of God after seeing him.

First kid in orbit

Regular yellow mustard wouldn’t have done that to me, but hot mustard would have.

ha ha haaa

Click here: Peanuts (October 3, 1954)

Woke up one morning with burning eyes to my granddad grinding fresh horseradish right outside my basement room. Of course he was wearing a WW II respirator.

You are one wild woman!!

I once told a coworker that a little sniff of ammonia would help clear her plugged sinuses. Figured she’d get a jar of weak aqua and kind of fan a few fumes in her direction. Instead she went to the stockroom, picked out a gallon jug of full-strength aqua ammonia, stuck her nose right up to the neck, and inhaled deeply. The effect was pretty much like the mustard did to Calvin. After this many years it’s funny; but it sure wasn’t then. For some reason, she never trusted my home remedies after that.

Grammar and spelling Nazi’s make me wanna snort jalapeno mustard mixed with wasabi horseradish…or maybe make them snort it.

With the new synthetic drug epidemic, too many kids today are deciding that they, too, have to learn first hand what the results of ingestion are … far too often with tragic consequences.

I like grinden. I vote we keep it.

I’m with you Susan – I think smellin’ all that other stuff is mostly a guy thing. You were being facetious weren’t you – or did you get a bee up your nose? That would be memorable.

Thanks again Hobbes. Love those old comics.

HAHAHA Looks like Calvin opened up a gallon of WHOOPA$$ Hobbs could smell that one coming.

We had an empty spice jar that used to hold cayenne pepper. I wondered what it smelled like, didn’t think it would hurt since there wasn’t any left, but HOLY CRAP MY NOSE

I guess Calvin already is ‘too old to cut the mustard’; otherwise he would have known better!

…or Calvin is too young to cut the mustard; otherwise he would have known that ‘discretion is the better part of valor’!

At least Calvin didn’t sniff poison ivy; that would have been a ‘rash’ decision!

Calvin really knows how to ‘whoop it up’!

Can you say wasabi? I thought you could..

Would Monsieur perhaps prefer the Dijon?

liquid or powder?

I love those ah ha moments from childhood. Ah ha that’s why I don’t see people do that..Hey kids, T Lewis and Todd Clark have a new strip Mr. Gigi and the Squid. Some of you crazy kids out there might like it. Stop on by if you get the chance.

The clock hath long since stricken three. Wherefore is thepepper not yet grounden?

If Bill can do it,why not we groundlings?

@Hobbes,Apparently, Snoopy didn’t think Lucy was “nothing to sneeze at” (nothing at which to sneeze). Maybe Snoopy had just sniffed fresh “grinden” pepper. I like that word grinden; it sounds German.

@Puddleglum2: Who nose?

I recall doing that with horseradish in my very long ago youth; the memory is still with me.

Oh Calvin… Well that’s a life lesson for you.

When I was about 8 or 9 I took a massive inhale of pepper.

NOT a good idea.

Hobbes face in the last panel reads ‘I didn’t see that’

xxx

Horseradish is better. My grandmother used to make us inhale the fumes whenever we had a cold. She swore by it as a cure.

Calvin will never take his sinuses “fo granded” after this—not until they heal, at least.

In today’s fourth panel, it sounds like English is no longer Calvin’s first language.

“I’m going to jump in this lake full of crocodiles just to see what happens!”RIP Crocodile Hunter

My Uncle could not get the mustard he liked in this country,so he made his own,we both liked hot mustard,when testing a new batch we learned to hardly wet the fork.Never open the lid and sniff a new batch.

Austrian!

One of my favorite songs!

What I want to know is if Calvin put the mustard back into the refrigerator for the next unsuspecting person to use. I am sure the mustard now has a few extra ingredients! :)

I must go now, there is something interesting in TV!

I’m at the end of a v e r y long list of silliness. Won’t even try to pun-up just kudos to all for some fine memories of stupid things we do in life. Now sniff my finger…

smells like spinach

For the same effect at ANY age … go to a local Chinese restaurant find the FRESH made hot oriental mustard. Put ice in a small bowl place a second bowl of hot mustard in the ice bowl – this works best if the mustard is chilled. Get some meat-on-a-stick or eggrolls(make sure they are HOT!). Apply chilled mustard to hot food, eat a bite, breathe DEEPLY through nose repeatedly, while chewing food.The hot food heats the mustard, vapor enters sinuses, head explodes. Session over. Repeat if one suffers from stuffy sinuses due to a cold – you may have clear sinuses for the rest of the day…..

We’re up to 99 comments. I wonder if we can hit 100 again today.

100 !!!

Why donut we stop bean self-right-chus bout our langwage skill and jest get the cents of the comment? Its the thunk that counts. All these grammar and syntax lessons have one purpose: to make ourselves seem smarter and the other look dumber. It’s a matter of respect. Let it go.

@Vonne Anton: Well said.Except, you misspelled “doughnut”…………:>)

I did that once with amyl nitrate. I went the other direction……..straight to the ground.

@Dogsniff: It depends – what are you adding?I’ll just have to try to be more prolific, to live up to my former nickname.:>)

Most likely, Hobbes, was a teacher.

Where’s Mythreesons? She knows who Hobbes used to be!

On such an international forum, the last thing we need are grammar critics. For them, I’ve got a criticism of my own in mind from History Of the World, Part 1.

“Next, I’ll use this pepper spray as air freshener!”

He sounds like the time his nose was bleeding.

@thebird55: In my past life I was known as Snoopy.

I’m late, but I’m old and it takes time to process my memories. I had an Austrian boss once, a very wealthy man with congenital emphysema, that he inherited because he was descendent of a very inbred aristocracy. He had trouble climbing stairs or walking. He used to sniff Chinese Horseradish, would grinden it up and inhale deeply. He said it worked better than all the expensive medications that his doctors were prescribing. He was very ill and is most likely dead by now, but Calvin has just experienced something that may someday lead to a medical breakthrough in treating disabling lung conditions.My friend was visiting tonight and she has asthma and emphysema from smoking. She also has schizophrenia which is just as brutal. I’m going to buy her some Chinese Horseradish and grinden it up for her to sniff. Wish me luck.

“Just don’t snort wasabi powder – saw an idiot on youtube do it – that still hurts to think about. Xo”Wow I should check that out!

I’ll NEVER do that in my life!

Think that’s bad? Try horseradish

I hate doing that