Gosh! Even if Linus is a fast counter and can count 5 snowflakes in 1 second, without counting a snowflake twice, and counting every second, 24 hours a day without going to sleep, it still would have taken him 82 years to count all 13 billion!
The snowflake number is ever changing. Just as the shapes of the snow crystal is always different from every other snow crystal. So Linus’s number is correct for that instant. But it is off in the next instant.
Yeah right, Lucy. I don’t believe Linus’s claim to begin with, but I know you didn’t get thet count. Your claim is typical of someone who wants to look like they did the work and impress others.
Saw the same thing with one of my sisters on a book they knew I enjoyed reading and they figured I’d be impressed they had read it too. I would have been too, had they actually read it. When I tried asking their opinion on a particular event in the book they tried telling me it wasn’t in the book. Changed their tune when I took their copy and turned to chapter and page without any hard work. Finally admitted to only reading the first and last chapters.
This is the first Peanuts strip that ever reminded me of an episode of The Goon Show. From The Mysterious Punch-up-the-conker (February 7, 1957):
Bluebottle [English version of Milhouse Van Houten]: What time is it Eccles?
Eccles [English version of Disney’s Goofy]: Err, just a minute. I’ve got it written down on a piece of paper. A nice man wrote the time down for me this morning.
Templo S.U.D. over 1 year ago
13,000,004,004 by Jason’s count.
ronaldspence over 1 year ago
Flake off Lucy!
TampaFanatic1 over 1 year ago
I guess Linus should be happy that Lucy does not slug him or give him her “5 reasons” (aka her fist) to get him to admit that she is always right!
hariseldon59 over 1 year ago
If he counted 13 billion snowflakes at the rate of one per second, it would still take 412 years.
mccollunsky over 1 year ago
Oh yeah, Lucy? What was the whole number then?
Interesting, they’ve gone back to 1969 strips, skipping the Peppermint Patty and Marcie football strips.
cubswin2016 over 1 year ago
Liar, liar, pants on fire!
dcdete. over 1 year ago
Gosh! Even if Linus is a fast counter and can count 5 snowflakes in 1 second, without counting a snowflake twice, and counting every second, 24 hours a day without going to sleep, it still would have taken him 82 years to count all 13 billion!
littlejohn Premium Member over 1 year ago
The snowflake number is ever changing. Just as the shapes of the snow crystal is always different from every other snow crystal. So Linus’s number is correct for that instant. But it is off in the next instant.
Decepticomic over 1 year ago
Lucy wins. Flawless victory. FATALITY.
WaywardWind over 1 year ago
Thirteen billion, four thousand and three. If both of them got that amount, it must be right.
jagedlo over 1 year ago
I see, so Linus does all the work and Lucy wants to take all the credit…
bbenoit over 1 year ago
Two flakes, standing in a field, counting flakes.
Ellis97 over 1 year ago
When did he have the time to count every individual snowflake?
preacherman over 1 year ago
And kids, during what time interval did this count occur? Or, is this an estimate of the total expected snowfall? Just curious.
EnlilEnkiEa over 1 year ago
Always good to get a second opinion.
coreym5 over 1 year ago
Well, we got color back today. Now can we get back to 1975, please?
198.23.5.11 over 1 year ago
No calculator?
Count Olaf Premium Member over 1 year ago
Purple snow suit sighting. Oops… wrong strip :)
Otis Rufus Driftwood over 1 year ago
Rain Man has some competition.
I❤️Peanuts over 1 year ago
Linus must have traded in his blanket for a slide rule.
mindjob over 1 year ago
Brother and sister hugs coming soon
knight1192a over 1 year ago
Yeah right, Lucy. I don’t believe Linus’s claim to begin with, but I know you didn’t get thet count. Your claim is typical of someone who wants to look like they did the work and impress others.
Saw the same thing with one of my sisters on a book they knew I enjoyed reading and they figured I’d be impressed they had read it too. I would have been too, had they actually read it. When I tried asking their opinion on a particular event in the book they tried telling me it wasn’t in the book. Changed their tune when I took their copy and turned to chapter and page without any hard work. Finally admitted to only reading the first and last chapters.
seaton9 over 1 year ago
First fibber doesn’t stand a chance.
John W Kennedy Premium Member over 1 year ago
This is the first Peanuts strip that ever reminded me of an episode of The Goon Show. From The Mysterious Punch-up-the-conker (February 7, 1957):
Bluebottle [English version of Milhouse Van Houten]: What time is it Eccles?
Eccles [English version of Disney’s Goofy]: Err, just a minute. I’ve got it written down on a piece of paper. A nice man wrote the time down for me this morning.
hagarthehorrible over 1 year ago
Both of you can cross check the numbers now by repeat counting.