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  1. about 2 months ago on Peanuts Begins

    I had an older cousin who was a telephone operator in the 1960s (when I was in elementary school), and she told me that she actually did get a couple of calls like that, with some small and lonely child just wanting to hear a friendly voice (many kids were left alone at home then), and she told them stories. Never got into trouble for it.

    I dialed an operator a few times a year, and once actually got my cousin once. Every now and then I would call the operator for no reason than to say hello and ask how their day was going. Those were the days.

  2. 3 months ago on Peanuts Begins

    Shermy had it coming.

  3. 4 months ago on Luann

    I was really hoping these two characters would have a giant battle and both self-destruct. Bets has always seemed self-centered and manipulative, while Stef is simply unpleasant. The strip would have benefited from each of them exiting stage left. Perhaps, to use Skakespeare’s famous stage direction, at least one could “exit, pursued by a bear”.

  4. 4 months ago on Peanuts Begins

    This is the fourteenth “Peanuts” strip. So far, Patty has been in 10, Shermy in 8, Snoopy in 7, and Charlie Brown in 7. As for dialogue, Patty has had dialogue in 6 of her 10, Shermy 5 of his 8, and Charlie Brown 3 of his 6. (I do not count or <?> to be dialogue).

    Breaking down by panels (4 per strip), Patty has been in 31 panels, 11 with dialogue; Shermy 27 panels, 11 with dialogue; Snoopy 28 panels (all 4 panels in the 7 strips in which he’s appeared), with no dialogue; and poor Charlie Brown, has been in 13 panels, 3 with dialogue.

  5. 4 months ago on Peanuts Begins

    It’s “Will you still need me? Will you still feed me, when I’m Sixty-Four?”

    An entire concert hall full of fans serenaded Paul McCartney on his 64th birthday with that one.

  6. 5 months ago on Peanuts Begins

    This in the days before Disney sued EVERYONE for possible copyright violations. . .

  7. 8 months ago on Tank McNamara

    It’s been almost 38 years. Get over it.

    Don Denkinger did NOT drop an easy foul popup (Jack Clark did); Denkinger did NOT commit a passed ball (Porter did); and Denkinger did NOT look at the Cards’ bullpen, see a left-hander ready, and STILL leave his righty reliever in to face left-handed Dane Iorg (who had not faced a single lefty pitcher all season, and the Royals had no decent right-handed PH available (no, that was Whitey Herzog). Cardinals got one bad break, and fell apart.

    And then completely collapsed in Game Seven. Even Herzog admitted so, later.

    The Cards caught several breaks throughout the Series, and won close games with those breaks. One break went against them,, and they died. They batted under .200 for the Series, even without counting Game 7.

    I haven’t been able to watch a baseball game (at least MLB level) for more than 20 years, but it was still good in 1985.

  8. 8 months ago on Tank McNamara

    In Game Seven of the 1985 World Series, Cardinals starter John Tudor was driven from the mound in the 3rd inning, giving up five runs on the way to an 11-0 loss.

    A few innings later, it was reported that Tudor had been taken to the hospital for stitches, after having hit a fan. It took a few more moments before the game announcers were able to determine that he had tried to punch an ELECTRIC fan, and had cut his hand up in the process.

    Electric fan 1, player 0.

  9. 8 months ago on Tank McNamara

    According to his biography, Beck earned his nickname from a single incident. He was taken out of a game on the 4th of July in 1934, and instead of handing the ball to his manager, he turned and threw it into right field, where it hit the tin outfield fence. The right fielder was Hall of Famer Hack Wilson (who was by that time past his prime); Wilson was resting, bent over with his hands on his knees and head down. When he heard the ball loudly hit the fence, he assumed it another base hit, turned, fielded the ball, and threw it into second base.

    Known as Walter Beck before that day, he became “Boom-Boom” Beck forever after.

  10. 9 months ago on Peanuts Begins

    This is the second time in a week that Linus has been downcast, and taken to his blanket and thumb.