Wait!… there’s such a thing as a “scented candle detector”? That’s definitely stretching things a bit. After having Googled for such a thing, I noticed an entry that most smoke alarms cannot even detect a candle burning.
This wasn’t the first time Elton John was mentioned by Schulz. Here is one from earlier in 1975 (republished on 4/3/2022): https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/2022/04/03
Punk presence in today’s strip sort of reminds me of the internet meme where the woman is screaming at one end and the cat is sitting at the dinner table with a witty/snarky response.
I used to work for a pool cleaning company. Trust me… we would not recommend that. It’s waaayyy too much work to have to clean all those leaves out of the pool. This is especially true if you have to do it on a cold autumn day.
Drats! You beat me to it. I think Jon was thinking of an logical “XOR” gate. That is an “exclusive or” where one can be true, or the other can be true, but don’t allow if both are either true or false.
A dog that is so happy about the Sock Ness Monster, the black spot on his back disappears (see third panel) :)