An Unknown Alien Being acquires a child's forgotten book and mistakenly believes that it depicts proper protocol for interaction with the human world.
The book is a collection of Peanuts comics.
Woodsnoopy 45 stares into your open heart. Her yellow head squirms and pukes up feathers.
It makes you uncomfortable when she looks at you. She makes a demand.
Her demands come often and always create uncomfortably simultaneous feelings of resentment and obedience.
ACQUIRE NICKELS
That is the territory of the Lucy faction. They are the ones who gather nickels. Woodsnoopy 45 is overstepping her boundaries.
Being a mere Woodsnoopy 799, however, you can do naught but obey."
MASTABA SNOOPY
posted by JHarris
on Jan 6, 2013 -
31 comments
"While going through my archives, I found this piece and emailed it to my friends -- most of whom didn't get it at all. There's usually only one way that change ever comes to the eternal childhood immortality of a comic strip, and that's by the strip being cancelled -- and sometimes not even then."
How it turned out.
posted by bayani
on May 2, 2011 -
59 comments
"There was a night, maybe sometime around 1993, when
I [Joe Matt] was working on an issue of my comic book,
Peepshow and I was using some xeroxes of
Peanuts strips from the collection, “You Can Do It, Charlie Brown” as blotter-paper. Anyway, there came a moment when I was using white-out and to remove some excess white-out from my brush, I wiped it on the blotter paper beneath my hand. And that’s how I came to idly white-out the words balloons on a few
Peanuts strips. Once I saw the balloons whited-out and forgot what they originally said, I began filling them with the first
perverted thing my brain thought they might say. It was so much fun and I was so happy with the results that I brought the pages out to show to
Seth and
Chester [Brown] the next day. Seth was eager to try it and immediately suggested we each go home and produce a set number of pages for a mini comic.
Less than a week later, Chester brought out his original take on the concept and put Seth and I to shame."
[more inside]
posted by Alvy Ampersand
on Jan 20, 2011 -
56 comments
What's disgusting, looks like a peanut and tastes (vaguely) like a banana? A
Circus Peanut! They are so reviled, they merit
a page on bad-candy.com. Strangely, though, Circus Peanut sales are up, at least
according to "USA Today" (most interesting link of this post). How can this be? I've never met anyone who likes them (except for one person -- see [more inside]).
Margaret Husfelt of Houston, Texas is equally confused. SOMEBODY must like them. The little suckers have a
Facebook fan page, and they are, perhaps, palatable in a
Jello recipe (here's an
alternate recipe) or
dipped in chocolate. Heck, Jolene Sugarbaker likes them in
her salad. And if you're really brave, you might want to try a
Circus Peanut Margarita. But don't be surprised if you get ostracized.
Some people will
never understand. Where's the love?
[more inside]
posted by grumblebee
on Apr 1, 2010 -
138 comments
Peanut butter recall - hundreds sick. Federal health authorities on Saturday urged consumers to avoid eating cookies, cakes, ice cream and other foods that contain peanut butter until authorities can learn more about a deadly outbreak of salmonella contamination. It appears that retail peanut butter in jars is safe. So far, more than 470 people have gotten sick in 43 states, and at least 90 had to be hospitalized. At least six deaths are being blamed on the outbreak which is believed to have started at a Blakely, Ga., facility owned by
Peanut Corp. of America that ships peanut products to
85 food companies.
posted by dejah420
on Jan 17, 2009 -
73 comments
Charles Schulz: "I finally sighed and said, 'Well, Larry, let’s put it this way: Either you print it just the way I draw it or I quit. How’s that?'" We don't usually think of Peanuts as given to political statements but
this great post at Edge of the American West makes the case for Schulz's progressive racial politics.
[more inside]
posted by LarryC
on Nov 30, 2008 -
69 comments
N.C. A&T food scientist develops process for allergen-free peanuts. An agricultural researcher at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University has developed a simple process to make allergen-free peanuts. The new process – believed to be a first for food science – could provide relief to millions of peanut allergy sufferers, and be an enormous boon to the entire peanut industry.The inventor, Dr. Mohamed Ahmedna, is optimizing the process further to remove allergens from other foods.
posted by billysumday
on Jul 30, 2007 -
34 comments
It's October, and across the nation, the search for the most sincere Pumpkin Patch begins anew. For those unfamiliar (or those wishing to reacquaint themselves) with the rituals & lore of the Great Pumpkin, the
entire CBS Special is online here. Also, for the blind readers of this site, the long out-of-print spoken word radiodrama version of the Great Pumpkin
can be found here.
posted by jonson
on Oct 5, 2006 -
12 comments
Nancy , the best comic strip ever? Close but no cigar.
Pogo? Peanuts? Calvin? Good choices all, but still wrong.
Krazy Kat you say? Again I shake my head sadly, friend. For Mr. Dave Astor has finally stepped forward to settle this debate once and for all. The greatest comic strip ever appearing on newsprint? Why, it's
For Better or For Worse of course. Let the debate begin.
posted by ktoad
on Aug 22, 2006 -
202 comments
So
Charles Schulz ran out of ink about two hours ago, preceded in death by about five hours by
Tom Landry. The worst part is, both were in my
dead pool, which starts in about 24 hours. (The second-worst thing is all the "It's a sad day for Snoopy" and "Good grief" ledes we're going to have to endure. Blech.)
The Dallas Morning News obit went over the wires at 85 inches before Landy was even cold. Gee, you think they saw this one coming?
posted by luke
on Feb 12, 2000 -
9 comments
