# "Calvin peeing" stickers on car windows **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 25, 2002, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-peeing-stickers-on-car-windows/138608 "2002-11-25T05:51:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-peeing-stickers-on-car-windows/138608/21 "2002-11-26T02:47:35Z")
How about we have Calvin pee on pictures of the people who make those stickers? šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![SlickRoenick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SlickRoenick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlickRoenick)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-peeing-stickers-on-car-windows/138608/22 "2002-11-26T03:07:21Z")
Iā€™ve seen a couple similar things with Simpsonā€™s characters. But I thought Matt Groening has similar problems with people making stickers without his permission. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-peeing-stickers-on-car-windows/138608/23 "2002-11-26T03:15:54Z")
An actual question: If I am in possession of a product thatā€™s ā€œunauthorizedā€ (say I am wearing a t-shirt with Mickey smoking some gangja), am I in violation of any law? Iā€™m just wondering - always was curious about that. BTW, **Revtim** : > [@](#): > > Can anybody explain what that sticker is supposed to mean? Praying turns you into a girl? God makes your dick fall off? You tell us, youā€™re the reverend. šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![glilly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/48db29/32.png) [@glilly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glilly)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-peeing-stickers-on-car-windows/138608/24 "2002-11-26T03:45:25Z")
the ugliest one Iā€™ve seen is fake Calvin peeing on the word ā€œJapan,ā€ which was written in rickshaw lettering. ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-peeing-stickers-on-car-windows/138608/25 "2002-11-26T03:51:04Z")
Iā€™m sick of them. The first one I saw wasnā€™t even worth a light ā€œhaā€. Now theyā€™re tiresome and repetitive. ---
**Author:** ![red\_dragon60](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@red\_dragon60](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/red_dragon60)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-peeing-stickers-on-car-windows/138608/26 "2002-11-26T03:51:42Z")
dantheman, it may be protected under parody laws, but IANAL. Maybe someone else can clear it up. ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-peeing-stickers-on-car-windows/138608/27 "2002-11-26T03:58:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Achernar \* > It seemed to me that if he didnā€™t fight these violations, it was more out of weary resignation than out of acceptance. I donā€™t think anyone cares, but (again, my impression is that) Watterson would object to these violations not because people are making money off his product, but because other people are writing his character. Couldnā€™t they at least have used an actual image from the comic strip? ---
**Author:** ![Lagged2Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ac8455/32.png) [@Lagged2Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lagged2Death)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-peeing-stickers-on-car-windows/138608/28 "2002-11-26T19:05:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Achernar \* > \*\*Couldnā€™t they at least have used an actual image from the comic strip? \*\* I think the earliest of these stickers (the Ford/Chevy ones were the first I noticed) did use an image straight from the strip. I think it was a Sunday (color) strip that featured Calvinā€™s evil grin as he filled a water balloon from an outdoor tap. Calvin was hunched over the tap, with his hands in front of him. So adding a stream of urine did make it look like Calvin was relieving himself. Later variations may have changed the image dramatically; Iā€™ve seen some with Calvinā€™s pants pulled down, to make the point a little clearer, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-peeing-stickers-on-car-windows/138608/29 "2002-11-27T05:34:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Beelzebubba \* > \*\*Even after they offered to change the logo and put Mickeys pants back on. > > Errā€¦or was that something else? \*\* Ooh! Ooh! I smell a Simpsons reference, but I canā€™t quite place it. ---
**Author:** ![jimbuto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3da27b/32.png) [@jimbuto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuto)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-peeing-stickers-on-car-windows/138608/30 "2002-11-27T09:09:28Z")
Well, Iā€™ve always been tempted to make a Calvin Peeing on a cross. That said, Iā€™ve dealt with people who get real close to violent over Darwin Fish, this would make them get their guns. My friend has also suggested Calvin peeing in Hobbes mouth. ---
**Author:** ![CurtC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce73a5/32.png) [@CurtC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CurtC)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-peeing-stickers-on-car-windows/138608/31 "2002-11-27T15:40:34Z")
> [@](#): > > _Elwood cuse wrote:_ > Ooh! Ooh! I smell a Simpsons reference, but I canā€™t quite place it. When Homerā€™s brother was sitting around the campfire with the other bums (after Homer ruined him), one bum said something like ā€œYeah, I used to be rich. I owned Mickey Mouse Massage Parlors, until those Disney sleazeballs shut me down. I told 'em Iā€™d change the logo, put Mickeyā€™s pants back on! You just canā€™t reason with some folks.ā€ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calvin-peeing-stickers-on-car-windows/138608.md?page=1)