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Wednesday, October 10. 2007

from Peanuts, The Lost Strips (h/t, reader)

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Posted by Bird Dog in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 18:41 | Comments (31) | Trackbacks (0)

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Er, I'd be taking this with a grain of salt, and for a few reasons:

1. If the writer can't even spell Schulz's name correctly, I'm not sure this exactly fits under the heading, "trustworthy in-depth reporting."

2. This is on a site that acknowledges it "offers conservative political satire. And fake news. And sometimes fake satire. At other times we provide satirical news. And fake political satire. Not to mention actual, real satire that is political in nature."

In other words, "fake, fake, fake."

3. A half-hour on Google pops up zero else on the subject. There actually were some strips from the early 60's that were referred to as the "lost strips", but that's just because no biographer had reprinted them yet.

"These 'lost' strips include Linus making a near-successful run for class president that is ultimately derailed by his religious beliefs (two words: 'great' and 'pumpkin'), and Snoopy getting involved with a group of politically fanatical birds."

http://www.fantagraphics.com/peanuts/peanuts.html

(search the page for "lost")

I would add to this that there IS a little brouhaha over the book he's touting, with some people coming out and saying it's a hit piece, but I've read interviews with relatives and neighbors and it does appear the guy was kind of moody, so it's not completely unlikely that he could have done the one you posted.

FWIW, Snopes doesn't mention anything. I checked, of course. If these turn out to be fake, that'll mean you guys got pw3nd twice in the same day, unquestionably a Maggie's Farm first. :)

#1 Dr. Mercury on 2007-10-10 19:14 (Reply)

It's a JOKE!

#1.1 BD on 2007-10-10 19:22 (Reply)

"It's a JOKE!"

Hum. That's sure showing a dark side of Maggie's Farm I've never seen before. Think what a great series of "lost" strips could be done using satire, with delightful political jabs and delicious sexual innuendo.

Instead, we get, "Your death would bring me great joy, bitch."

Nice.

In other news, did you read the article where Pelosi lashed out at the antiwar nutcakes? Best story of the day, IMHO.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/09/AR2007100902006.html

#2 Dr. Mercury on 2007-10-10 19:30 (Reply)

But she does it with a smile!

#2.1 BD on 2007-10-10 20:33 (Reply)

It would be funnier if the characters were spouses and not siblings. Still, Dr. M, its fakery is too obvious to merit proof. Heck, even the font is unauthentic.

#3 Wulf (Link) on 2007-10-10 20:43 (Reply)

I call bullshit... no matter the author... disgusting I think, nothing funny at all. The first three panels, maybe some humor... the last... abhorrent. And, by the way, I am no prude. I just do not enjoy that type of... f*** standards, most especially when directed toward women.

#4 Luther McLeod on 2007-10-10 22:47 (Reply)

o/t, but i sure love that music from the Peanuts tv specials --Vince Guaraldi's music.

He's the guy who wrote "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" --the only jazz hit i can think of that topped the old "top 40" on AM radio back in the day.

#5 buddy larsen on 2007-10-10 23:11 (Reply)

For BL:

A month of nights, a year of days
Octobers drifting into Mays
You set your sail when the tide comes in
And you cast your fate to the wind

You shift your course along the breeze
Won't sail up wind on memories
The empty sky is your best friend
And you just cast your fate to the wind

That time has such a way of changing a man throughout the years
And now you're rearranging your life through all your tears
Alone, alone

There never was, there couldn't be
A place in time for men to be
Who'd drink the dark and laugh at day
And let their wildest dreams blow away

So now you're old, you're wise, you're smart
You're just a man with half a heart
You wonder how it might have been
Had you not cast your fate to the wind

Best,

#6 apple pie on 2007-10-10 23:59 (Reply)

AP, that's the one --that song got me started on a lifelong hobby of trying to play piano by ear --it was mesmerizing to me--had to learn to play it--and still working on it after all these years, LOL--

I wuz just a youngster when first heard it, but--it was a first glimpse into a sort of grown-up emotion--i guess, the meaning of "bittersweet". Or maybe, a foreshadowed regret that we started understanding as teens would be an almost certain theme of our later years. Blah blah --i sound like Charlie Brown's schoolteacher--

But, Guaraldi was never a big star --he just ran a west coast jazz combo until the "peanuts" gig--which getting was a sort of miracle for him--and i think a match made in heaven.

Never a more perfect blend of sensibilities, i think, than between Vince & Charlie Brown.

#6.1 buddy larsen on 2007-10-11 00:15 (Reply)

Oh yes. Me too! Gram had a small piano, and I tried desperately to play that piece, and also the Moonlight Sonata. Some few songs are attractive because of the repetition. Yes, I was at that age where bittersweet seemed some how so sophisticated--so grown up. Breakfast at Tiffany's was another one of those experiences at that time. In 1959 we began to drive 40 miles to see "European movies" . In 1960, one of the first was a film with Sophia Loren called "Two Women" dealing with a subject that could not even be verbalized. Right about the same time a popular European movie was Zorba the Greek, as was another Greek film titled "Never on Sunday" . All of these new sights/sounds brought my generation to an understanding that being an adult was not all posies. But,through it all were the strains of that song--"just cast your fate to the wind." I think it kept our generation moving forward with some kind of alientated perspective. Like being birds flying over the scene. Other songs of the fifties that I remember: Ebb Tide, Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White, Autumn Leaves, etc.

#7 apple pie on 2007-10-11 00:55 (Reply)

ha --every one of those sound tracks and melodies--well not the Two Women or Breakfast tracks immediately--leaped right into mind just reading your post. Yeh, Autumn Leaves, Ebb Tide, Cherry Pink, Zorba and Never on Sunday soundtracks, all just as clear as bells.

--amazing how many shared memories reach wide up, down, & across the continent --the good part of masscomm--

#7.1 buddy larsen on 2007-10-11 01:44 (Reply)

Yes, but our songs were more human and humane. The children of day will share memories of songs that deliver what messages?

#8 apple pie on 2007-10-11 01:58 (Reply)

"welcome to the jungle" is about all i can see in it. but a parent can still frame all that for the kids, and thereby keep hope alive til the reformation.
:-\

#8.1 buddy larsen on 2007-10-11 02:32 (Reply)

The cartoon represents black humor. I like it.

#9 BD on 2007-10-11 08:46 (Reply)

Dang it! We would have gotten away with it if hadn't been for that meddling Dr. Mercury.

RH Potfry
The Nose On Your Face

#10 Potfry (Link) on 2007-10-11 10:54 (Reply)

BD,

Take a little time out from posting naked women pictures and learn the difference between 'black' humor and 'sick' humor.

#11 Oh, ha ha ha... on 2007-10-11 11:14 (Reply)

BD, re your offering of free entertainment (MF i mean), "no good deed goes unpunished".

#12 buddy larsen on 2007-10-11 11:20 (Reply)

Well I appreciate the free entertainment... but that doesn't mean I, or others, can't have an opinion as to the content, or does it?

#13 Anonymous on 2007-10-11 11:33 (Reply)

Taking responsibility for my words... that is I on #13.

#14 Luther McLeod on 2007-10-11 11:40 (Reply)

i'd say, it's ok to have an opinion, and it's ok to have an opinion on the opinion --and an opinion on that, too --
:-D

#14.1 buddy larsen on 2007-10-11 12:15 (Reply)

Well and logically said, Mr. L., as always.

#14.1.1 Anonymous on 2007-10-11 12:32 (Reply)

I know a good deed when I see one. 'apple pie's' terrific comment at #7. That was a sonorous trip down Amnesia Lane, and I am delighted with the memories she brought forward.

My children grew up listening to my music. They know the words better than I do. Hope is not lost...

#15 Scantily clad voluptuary on 2007-10-11 12:08 (Reply)

LOL--Amnesia Lane, where the same old is always new, cause you already forgot

#15.1 buddy larsen on 2007-10-11 12:24 (Reply)

I will remember to check the remember info box this time
I will remember to check the remember info box this time
I will remember to check the remember info box this time
I will remember to check the remember info box this time
I will remember to check the remember info box this time
I will remember to check the remember info box this time
I will remember to check the remember info box this time
I will remember to check the remember info box this time

#16 Luther McLeod on 2007-10-11 12:36 (Reply)

LOL--what works for me: a big black Magic Marker, and detailed notes written on my left hand--and up the arm if a busy day.

#16.1 buddy larsen on 2007-10-11 12:49 (Reply)

...but then you have to remember to read them.

best way to do that is to carry a 14 lb cinder block around with you all day.

whenever you wonder why you're carrying the block around, you'll remember to read the Magic Marker notes on your hand and arm.

#16.1.1 buddy larsen on 2007-10-11 12:53 (Reply)

No. The cinder block leaves dust. You make a list and put it in the back pocket of your jeans. When you get to the store, you pull it out and buy all the things you wrote down on last week's list that's in the same pocket. Hey...my Christmas list!

#17 Maybe I'll take a shower today on 2007-10-11 13:29 (Reply)

no no no--what if you forget to put on your pants? better to just paint four or five coats of polyurethane varnish on the cinder block.

#17.1 buddy larsen on 2007-10-11 13:38 (Reply)

Nah, that all sounds like too much work... I'll just keep sauntering down that ol' 'Amnesia Lane'... it is a blissful and carefree stroll.

#18 Luther McLeod on 2007-10-11 14:13 (Reply)

i had a funny comeback, but i forgot it. you can go ahead and laff, tho, cause it WAS funny

#18.1 buddy larsen on 2007-10-11 14:27 (Reply)

OK I did :)

#19 Luther McLeod on 2007-10-11 18:28 (Reply)

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