Peanuts by Charles Schulz for September 17, 2011

It’s almost 50 years later and a lot of countries have changed. Linus may have been right.

Linus is just creating his own reality.

There’s no pleasing some teachers.

Reminds me of another comic a few years ago… might’ve been PICKLES or ONE BIG HAPPY. Boy is looking at globe, and says, “This globe is pretty old.” Grandpa: “Yes, some of those countries have had their names changed.” Boys says, “Yeah, and this ocean, too.” Grandpa looks where he points: “The Indian Ocean??” Boy: “Grandpa! You mean Native American Ocean!”

@catfeet,

Just like the Republican/Tea Party.

Linus should have been an illustrator for Tolkien.

No, Linus….fifty years later all the old names and borders for countries previous to the world wars were reinstated.

THE RE-BIRTH OF TRUE CREATIVITY ! HTPIII

Not only is Linus’s map ahead of its time, Linus can see 50 years into the future…poor sap. I’m sure he’s disappointed with the view.

“Timor-Leste”? “Slovokia”? “Bangladesh”? “Angola”? Really, Linus!

When I was a kid, our geography books were always hopelessly out of date, anyway. The teacher always had to point out which countries no longer existed.

Awwwww, So cute.

xxx

Maybe they were real countries at the time, and the teacher was just uninformed. 50 years ago my first grade teacher couldn,t explain to me why ‘water’ wasn’t pronounced ‘waiter’.

There are times when it doesn’t take 50 years. When I was in grade school Africa was throwing off imperialism and about 2/3 of the countries had changed names and/or borders by the time I got to Jr./Hi. …another time more recently was the dissolution of the Soviet Union (google it, kids)

In the early grades it’s best to “copy” things exactly like or as close to the real thing. Teachers don’t take to kindly to the creative concept so much. It’s more of a requirement in high school, and in undergraduate, graduate, and post graduate studies, original work is a required part of academic integrity and submitting someone else’s work as your work without referencing the originator as the source is plagiarism and may lead to expulsion.

I was a whiz at geography back in the day, but I’d bet that 99% of high school seniors could find Africa in five seconds. I’d give them 30 seconds to find Sri Lanka.

“Tigg”… are you paid for these…?-You owe them a refund!

In 1962, Linus put Czechslovakia on his map. Come another 30 years, there wouldn’t be a Czechslovakia anymore-it split into Slovenia and the Czech Republic.

I missed that – where Obama said he visited all 57 states of the U.S. REALLY? ! ! ! GEEEEEZ ! ! ! Maybe he’s thinking ahead of all the places he’d like to add as states. Look Out America ! God Help & God Bless America.

A strip that I really like is “Freshly Squeezed” … I suggest you add it to your “Comic Page” and read it for a few days … I think you will want to keep it there. It is very well drawn and written.

Obama said that??? I don’t think so.

With Linus and all his intelligence, he would have labeled countries such as: Prussia, Persia, Edom, Moab, Ammon, and Siam. Wonder what he would have called America? Only the Native Americans knew the original name for this country.

Actually, in fact, in this case the Indian Ocean is the correct name. There are real Indians. They live in India, next to the Indian Ocean.

Whatever people want to call their country is fine with me. They have the right to use some sort of historic or ethnic or religious term to describe themselves. Actually, the United States of America (after Amerigo Vespucci) should be the United States of Columbus, or maybe Christopher.

President Obama did in fact say he had been in all 57 states, as an intentional exaggeration of the hectic schedule he had been following while campaigning. If someone commented on the probably 500 new countries in the world since 1950, no one would think twice about it.

actually, Obama was talking about all the states AND TERRITORIES . . . but small matter.

I was a graduate assistant when I worked on my first MA. We had to grade papers for various professors, one of whom included a section on basic geography for his freshman World Civ classes. We had students who couldn’t identify North America on a world map, some who though Africa was China and at least one who confused oceans with continents.

Ah, the intellectual prowess of the American college student.