Peanuts by Charles Schulz for December 28, 2020

I don’t remember being able to see Kohoutek during the day — I don’t even remember seeing it at night.

120,700,800 kilometers still seems pretty close to Snoopy & Woodstock; don’t want to take any chances

I remember itt, but I don’t recall seeing it.

Just imagine seeing a brown blob with eyes on the ground.

Well, we can see it again around the year 76973

That really dates the strip. I was in high school when that comet passed by.

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Stay clear of Chelyabinsk and you’ll be fine.

“Keep low”…on Woodstock’s case, that’s his normal state…

That day that Linus mentioned was December 28, 1973— eighth grade for me. I wasn’t worried about the Kohouch-a-ma-thingy; girls were starting to get my attention!

Why “KEEP LOW”?

I remember the Kohoutek, back in 1973/1974. It was a big flop. Quite unusual for the strip to mention current events though.

Wikipedia says that Comet Kohoutek was last seen 28 December 1973, going on to say, ‘Comet Kohoutek is a long-period comet; its previous apparition was about 150,000 years ago, and its next apparition will be in about 75,000 years.’

I wasn’t around then, and I doubt I’ll be here for its next visit, too! B^D

Comet Kohoutek will return in the year 76973.

Reminds me whenI was growing up my sister told my mom she was going to hide under the bed when the end of the world came!!!!

Reminds me of the ‘Pearls Before Swine’ when Pig misunderstood that it would take a long time for a comet to strike the earth.

I remember seeing it when I was 13. It was quite a sight in Viet Nam. Everybody there said it was a bad Omen.

Snoopy’s dog house is in Argyle Sweater today.

I remember Kohoutek. I remember that it was a letdown.

Also: 1973 strip.

With things that have been going on, it’s like the world has been ending.

There was so much advance hype about how spectacular Kohoutek was going to be that someone actually wrote a pretty good song about it, which Burl Ives recorded and even sang on the Tonight Show. It did not live up to the advance publicity, in the US at least, and I’m surprised to learn from *docachon*’s comment that it made more of an impression in Vietnam.

https://youtu.be/2dFFEigA6Kc

hehe I remember that!

Don’t you love that ‘only seventy-five million miles? That’s like the car ads "*only* $38,000.

My first condo didn’t cost that much!

I thought I remembered this storyline when it first appeared. I was right — it has to do with the comet Kohoutek!

Snoopy and Woodstock – I love those guys – this is a perfect series to rerun now

“I always thought we were supposed to lie down or put a paper bag over our heads.”“If you like, yes.”“Will it help?”“No.”

I only wear sackcloth when I leave the house.

Seventy-five million miles away?! Keep low! We don’t want to be hit by this strange light in the sky!

Funny, the first thing I saw was that large, irregularly shaped rock-like object in the second cel. I thought I had somehow opened the wrong comic strip!

How often does it come by? I’d like to know when a comet might say hi on my birthday. Can I then claim it as my sign?

She wore bangles, she wore bells on her toes

And she jumped like a fish

Like a flying friend, you were gone

Like Kohoutek, can’t forget that

R.E.M. “Kohoutek”

Spoiler Alert!!!!! It misses us…..

Or just stay in bed under the covers.

So this was December 13, 1973? Fifteen days would have put it at December 28th of that year, which was when Kohoutek’s comet was at it’s perihelion (nearest point) to the sun.

I love comets.

Craig Schulz talks about his dad and “A Charlie Brown’s Christmas” on this week’s Gilbert Gottfried podcast.

https://chtbl.com/track/E2288/traffic.megaphone.fm/STA4668647040.mp3

In the summer of 1957 I was between grades 7 and 8. That summer I received a phone call from my 6th grade teacher, who recalled my interest in astronomy, and informed me where to look in the night sky to se Mrkos, a comet visible in the northern hemisphere that summer.

Such teachers impact lives of their students. I went on to become a chemical engineer with Allied Chemical. Had it not been for this dedicated teacher, interested in pricking my latent interest, perhaps I never would have been as deeply committed to science as I had become.His name is Paul Osborne.

A man named Kohoutek did say,

“A great comet is coming our way!”

But folks were distraught,

When they saw just a dot,

And they laugh at him still to this day.

From a Funky Winkerbean comic at the time – Les was writing poetry. I can’t believe I still remember it!