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{ Sunday, October 14, 2007 }

Charles Schultz on Peanuts

All the loves in the strip are unrequited; all the baseball games are lost; all the test scores are D-minuses; the Great Pumpkin never comes; and the football is always pulled away.

LINK | 12:07 PM | TB

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{ COMMENTS }

Gee, that's kind of depressing, isn't it? And yet, I love me some Peanuts.

Amie Gillingham | October 15, 2007 7:34 AM

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Of course that's what makes Peanuts so wonderful -- the wide-eye, youthful optimism in spite of pending doom.

joff | October 15, 2007 3:45 PM

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Because success isn't very funny.

Beerzie | November 8, 2007 7:05 AM

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And here now it's approaching Christmas 41+ years later and our current time firmly correlates even more today than ever.

Jestutripup | December 3, 2007 2:11 AM

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caterina, it's been months since you've posted and your readers miss you. hope that you are happy and healthy. and sonnet is a lovely name, btw.

| December 14, 2007 1:11 PM

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wow. I never realized that's what Peanuts is all about - yet it's still funny - maybe that's why we can laugh at our lives ... hahaha thanks for that insight.

The Pageman | January 5, 2008 12:00 PM

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