Peanuts by Charles Schulz for April 12, 2018

Say it ain’t so!

I used to get these personal letters from Reader’s Digest, with special offers especially for me. They always stressed how important I was to them, and addressed me by my name. Which was typed on a dotted line, never quite matching the otherwise printed text.

Yes, Lucy, and you fell for Snoopy’s bluff.

Better a form letter than a formless one, no?

Snoopy has the integrity of a Chicago politician.

Poor old Snoopy – my guess is Helen Sweetstory, she of the Bunny Wunnies, probably never even saw his letter… you would think she would have wanted to read a letter if she knew a DOG typed it out from on top of his doghouse after READING her book! Maybe..

Way to rain on someone’s parade, Lucy!

Nobody “needs” a sugar cookie.

When my son was in Junior High, he was a big Michael Crichton fan. He wrote him a letter and Crichton (apparently) sent him an autographed photo and a personal letter. He still talks about it sometime.

Of course…

The depravity of the sugar cookie addict knows no bounds.

LOL, busted! “But it seemed so personal and intimate!”

Way to let him down easy Lucille, That’s a 25 cent treatment with a cookie.

The Six Bunny-Wunnies and the Disillusioned Dog

Form, fit and function…can’t help it, I’m channeling my inner engineer…

I know I’d be thrilled with even a form letter from Ms. Sweetstory…

The “sugar cookie” is the basic recipe for many homemade cookies; just add a cup of whatever you’ve got to make chocolate chip, peanut butter, walnut, etc. cookies. Or if you have a bunch of options and can’t make up your mind, throw it all in there and call em Cowboy Cookies!

Sadly, Miss Sweetstory is probably some guy named Fred or Irv or something, who really aspires to write the Great American Novel, but does this to pay the bills…..

Yeah. My birth certificate has Mayor LaGuardia’s signature on it. Wonder how many others have the same.

I love Snoopy’s reaction!!

Poor Snoopy. He didn’t know that was a form letter. Lucy was an unpleasant dash of reality for him. He could have floated on that bubble for a while longer imagining that Sweetstory wrote to him and liked his letter.

This story arc is one of my absolute favorites. I never get tired of re-reading it. He’s such a Snoopy.

Got cookie did it not

Miss Helen Sweetstory… betrayed by a sugar cookie!

When I was a boy reading this particular strip, it may have been the first time I had heard about the idea of a form letter.