Peanuts by Charles Schulz for September 24, 2021

FOR MILLENNIALS: wax eloquent

To speak or write (about something) with particularly eloquent language, especially to an ostentatious or performative degree.

After his fourth gin and tonic, my father stood up and began waxing eloquent about the importance of family.

She never hesitates to wax eloquent about all sorts of social injustices in the world.

Stephan Pastis just got jealous.

The comedy hero

Snoopy’s channeling Stephan Pastis… ;-)

♪ If you can’t drive with a broken back / At least you can polish the fender ♪

He used to have a vintage car and all he did was was nostalgic!

She got the car in the divorce.

I see another rejection letter coming.

A cheap car, now-a-days.

That was smoothly said, while he was waxing Eloquent.

Snoopy, you’re a literary genius!

Could never see the point in labeling people by when they were born. A foolish media stunt started post WW2 to try and explain the large increase in babies born following the war.

No, the question is WHY do you do it?

You come up with the joke first and write backwards to set it up.

In fairness, if your name is Joe Sportscar, you’re pretty much guaranteed to fawn over fancy automobiles like that.

Maybe you should have gone into comedy writing instead of attempting serious prose, Snoopy…

That writing was so eloquent.

Do only pros write prose?

Wax?

I don’t believe Charles Schulz ever met a pun he didn’t like . . .

I get like Snoopy when I think I have written something profound. Then I get zero “likes” for it, and I stop.

$10,000? In 1974 I would expected more like $25,000 or $30,000 for a somewhat expensive car.

I’m a baby boomer and I never heard of that phrase!

Secretary: The Dean’s here to see you. He’s waxing wroth.

Prof. Wagstaff (Groucho Marx): Oh, is Roth out there, too? Well, tell Roth to wax the Dean for a while.

- Horsefeathers (1932) (I believe it was Joe Adamson in Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Sometimes Zeppo that attributed the extra fancy phrase to scriptwriter S.J. Perelman.)

There was a car called the Eloquent?

Good writer and artist……..

Better than if he whacks elephants.

But his cousin, Li’l “Racecar” Lil, didn’t know if she was coming or going… ☺

I wane inarticulate after a couple of beers

Well, Snoopy’s no Hemingway, but…

At least he didn’t go for the 12-cylinder rhapsodic…

This one is right up there with “I am leaving you with Great Reluctance!”

You da man, Snoop.

You don’t wax engines, you polish them. Pick another part of the car.

And why did you have to infect Pastis?

No, Snoopy. Just no. Puns like that aren’t funny. And when they get overused too much in the future they take away from when puns could be funny.

I see why Snoopy keeps getting rejected.

OMG, I actually remember that one from the first time.

Fun fact: Snoopy later got a job writing puns for the cold openings of CSI and it’s related spin-offs.

Go, Snoopy! Keep up the good work!

Go to your room, Snoop Dog.