# Whip It Out For Pee On Earth Day! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 20, 2006, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whip-it-out-for-pee-on-earth-day/361499 "2006-06-20T23:31:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2006, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whip-it-out-for-pee-on-earth-day/361499/1 "2006-06-20T23:31:34Z")
[Those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, anyway.](http://liquidgoldbook.com/news.html) > [@](#): > > Pee On Earth Day, a day to bring one’s urine outside to nourish plants and save water used to flush toilets, will be June 21 in the northern hemisphere (Dec. 21 in the southern hemisphere). So, it’s not okay to fool Mother Nature, but golden showers are just dandy? ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2006, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whip-it-out-for-pee-on-earth-day/361499/2 "2006-06-21T00:46:11Z")
Meh. _Every_ day is Pee On Earth Day in _my_ yard. ---
**Author:** ![Rhubarb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/59ef9b/32.png) [@Rhubarb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhubarb)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2006, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whip-it-out-for-pee-on-earth-day/361499/3 "2006-06-21T01:13:08Z")
[QUOTE=Winston Smith] Meh. _Every_ day is Pee On Earth Day in _my_ yard. [/QUOTE] ditto. Rhubarb - saving water and nourishing plants for over 4 decades. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2006, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whip-it-out-for-pee-on-earth-day/361499/4 "2006-06-21T02:50:24Z")
I thought it was bad for the plants. Hm. I’m just hoping it will keep the cougars outta my back yard. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Il_Palazzo)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2006, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whip-it-out-for-pee-on-earth-day/361499/5 "2006-06-21T03:23:41Z")
[QUOTE=Savannah] I thought it was bad for the plants. Hm. [/QUOTE] I’d thought that too. Oh well, if someone went through all the trouble to declare it Pee on Earth Day, who am I to refuse? ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2006, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whip-it-out-for-pee-on-earth-day/361499/6 "2006-06-21T03:54:54Z")
Someone declared a day to mark your territory? Hell, anything for men to celebrate is good, I guess. And any women celebrating are invitited to the next party. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2006, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whip-it-out-for-pee-on-earth-day/361499/7 "2006-06-21T04:28:34Z")
> [@Savannah](#): > > I thought it was bad for the plants. Hm. > > I’m just hoping it will keep the cougars outta my back yard. Actually, it’s how the plants are naturally _supposed_ to get water. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2006, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whip-it-out-for-pee-on-earth-day/361499/8 "2006-06-21T04:30:06Z")
The folks walking their dogs below my balcony are just going to _love_ me in the morning. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2006, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whip-it-out-for-pee-on-earth-day/361499/9 "2006-06-21T13:21:56Z")
At Bohemian Grove they’ve been doing this for years: > [@](#): > > This is the most gloried-in ritual of the encampment, the freedom of powerful men to pee wherever they like, a right the club has invoked when trying to fight government anti-sex discrimination efforts and one curtailed only when it comes to a few popular redwoods just outside the Dining Circle. Tacked to one of these haplessly postprandial trees is a sign conveying the fairy-dust mixture of boyishness and courtliness that envelops the encampment: Gentlemen please! No pee pee here! [http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/bohemian\_grove\_spy.html](http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/bohemian_grove_spy.html) ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2006, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whip-it-out-for-pee-on-earth-day/361499/10 "2006-06-21T14:09:32Z")
[QUOTE=fetus] Actually, it’s how the plants are naturally _supposed_ to get water. [/QUOTE] Gee, I always thought that was “rain”. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2006, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whip-it-out-for-pee-on-earth-day/361499/11 "2006-06-21T14:10:00Z")
[QUOTE=fetus] Actually, it’s how the plants are naturally _supposed_ to get water. [/QUOTE] As opposed to that rain thing? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2006, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whip-it-out-for-pee-on-earth-day/361499/12 "2006-06-21T14:10:09Z")
> [@Monty Python](#): > > _“Your Majesty is like a stream of bat’s piss.”_ > _“What?”_ > _“I merely meant, your Majesty, that you shine out like a shaft of gold when all around is dark.”_ /got nothin’ ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2006, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whip-it-out-for-pee-on-earth-day/361499/13 "2006-06-21T14:47:46Z")
[QUOTE=Savannah] I thought it was bad for the plants. Hm. [/QUOTE] I think that that is one of those, “Everything, in moderation” type things. ---
**Author:** ![duffer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duffer/32/1026_2.png) [@duffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duffer)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whip-it-out-for-pee-on-earth-day/361499/14 "2006-06-22T02:02:43Z")
[QUOTE=Savannah] I thought it was bad for the plants. Hm. [/QUOTE] Was it _Up in Smoke_ or _The Next Movie_ where Tommy Chong pisses on one of their plants stating it’s good for them? (Hell, coulda been _Nice Dreams_). Whatever movie it was, if Tommy Chong said it, and it involved plant life, I gotta trust him. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whip-it-out-for-pee-on-earth-day/361499/15 "2006-06-22T02:27:56Z")
> [@OpalCat](#): > > Gee, I always thought that was “rain”. OK, it’s how it’s supposed to get nutrients. Although more from #2 and probably more from dead bodies. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whip-it-out-for-pee-on-earth-day/361499/16 "2006-06-22T05:58:37Z")
[QUOTE=fetus] OK, it’s how it’s supposed to get nutrients. Although more from #2 and probably more from dead bodies. [/QUOTE] Hmm, “Make 'em diea, for Gaia” has kind of a nice ring to it. . . ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whip-it-out-for-pee-on-earth-day/361499/17 "2006-06-22T10:10:57Z")
[QUOTE=duffer] Was it _Up in Smoke_ or _The Next Movie_ where Tommy Chong pisses on one of their plants stating it’s good for them? (Hell, coulda been _Nice Dreams_). Whatever movie it was, if Tommy Chong said it, and it involved plant life, I gotta trust him. [/QUOTE] If this isn’t logic, I don’t know what is. ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2006, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whip-it-out-for-pee-on-earth-day/361499/18 "2006-06-22T21:04:02Z")
[QUOTE=Rhubarb] ditto. Rhubarb - saving water and nourishing plants for over 4 decades. [/QUOTE] Thirded. Hell, I didn’t even know it was Pee on Earth Day, and I did it anyway. That’s called commitment to the environment.