Peanuts by Charles Schulz for January 26, 2014

O yes keep practising ,your bound to get good at it.Practising that is.

DROP HER LIKE A BAD HABIT!Down a cliff that is…

Ironically you’ll have to sell the piano.

And now I fully understand what drove Harry Mudd out into space.

Why such a cheap house? Oh yeah, 1967.

Right now, about 40 million.

maybe they would get all that stuff since Schroder plays piano all the time

Lucy, you don’t get it… You are why he stopped practicing.

Speaking of grammar… did you notice Lucy’s mistake in Panel 4: “I’ll needs lots of jewelry…”I’m surprised no one caught that after all these years.

Not to mention the spelling of “practicing”.

It’s possible to communicate without being profane, obscene or inflammatory these days? Who knew?

$100,000 in 1967 = $697,476.05 in 2013 according to http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/

actually, the practicing only helps if one has talent, connections and a lot of luck.

Lucy, the golddigger

According to those cost of living calculators – that $100K house in ’67 would cost $687K today.

Oops, meant Tribbles

She better learn to sing for her supper. me-me-me-meee

I think that $100,0000 will get you a pretty nice trailer now

Lucy probably thinks Schroeder will be rolling in the dough, and she won’t have to do anything for a living.

I married. The wife quit her job and we lived on my income. We divorced. I married a second time. The wife quit her job and we lived on my income. We divorced. I married a third time. Yep. The wife quit her job. But, this time I married one with an IRA to live on.

Love Schroeder’s face in the last panel.It’s a face ANYBODY would pull hearing Lucy’s voice.

xxx

I don’t why Schroeder should have any expression other than an eye-roll. It’s not as if he actually likes her. There are countless strips where he explicitly states that he despises her and wouldn’t marry her unless she was the last girl on Earth. (Yes, I wrote “unless” – that’s the joke in one strip.)

Thank you for interest ,you flatter me.

How do I get to Carnegie Hall?

Beethoven would have been proud