Peanuts by Charles Schulz for March 23, 2023

Cut to the chase Sally!

Snoopy wants his story to be a 4 hour epic with one intermission.

“Thank you Lucy, it’s 3 o’clock, have a nice weekend children.”

Superb stalling tactics, Sally! Tip o’ the hat.

Clearly, Sally is headed toward being a female preacher. She obviously follows the preacher’s credo: Never say a hundred words, when a thousand will do just as well.

I remember once back in grade school, the teacher stopping me in the middle of a lengthy oral book report.

By the time she finishes, Snoopy’s foot will have healed!

My brother, he can take a 2 sentence story and turn it into a Biblical Epic!! Like a minute by minute description of the 40 years in the desert!!

Reminds me of those multi-page clickbait “articles”

Once upon a time, there was a big bang …

Sally, I think this story should be short and sweet.

Where’s that long hook or a gong when you need one?

Like panel 3, Sally leaning on Snoopy!!

Not enough time to care.

Sally could be a screenwriter of the Hobbit film trilogy.

not enough

She’ll go on to write bestsellers and create hit serials for TV.

Since Evelyn is an airline stewardess who sometimes goes horse-riding, I’ll guess she is 28. The comic is from 1976, so Evelyn was 13 in 1961. What happened to her in Missouri in 1961? Maybe she saw a plane for the first time.

Filibuster! Filibuster!!

Were the stewardesses cute?

She’s giving her doctoral thesis. It takes time

Sally does Show & Tell…& Tell….& Tell…& Tell…& Tell….etc…etc…etc.

There was a short-lived television series about three airline stewardesses called “Flying High” back in the late ‘70s. I think it ran in ’78-’79 for about 3 or 4 months.

Sally loves to “milk” the limelight.

Sally seems to be related to my mother. Does this mean Charlie Brown and Sally are my distant cousins?

And this is exactly how the media presents “news” stories these days. All “story” and (almost) no actual news. If you’re lucky, after reading through three pages you just might find something that is directly relevant to the headline.