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Linus is a good soulâŠhe never seems to try to get even for all the grief anâ big sister bullying he gets from Lucy. It is the little brotherâs lot in life when the first born is a girlâŠI know â because my sister was born two years before meâŠ
thatâs funny!!!!âŠI have this strip itâs in the same book as the birds think itâs page 3 or 4 âŠLinus is good huh trying to be nice???âŠbut wished he couldâve gotten even for all the grief and abuse he got from Lucy
@RobertNowell and anyone else who thinks that any bird in Peanuts just has to be WoodstockâŠ
I grew up in the â60s and early â70s. When I first got into the Peanuts comics in the mid-60s, there were few strips that even used birds. The Peanuts books that had a bird that would become Woodstock did not come out until around 1968. Even then, the bird was seen only sporadically. I remember the name didnât come until later. There are birds of many different colors and not every bird in this strip is Woodstock.
From Wikipedia:
âSnoopy began befriending birds in the early 1960s, when they started using his doghouse for various purposes: a rest stop during migrations, a nesting site, or a place to play cards. None of these birds were ever given names, or even used speech balloons; they simply looked at Snoopy and he understood them. What set Woodstock apart from all these earlier birds was the fact that he attached himself to Snoopy and assumed the role of Snoopyâs sidekick and assistant. There had been no recurring relationships between Snoopy and the earlier birds who visited the yard of the Brown family, and Snoopy was as often as not more hostile than friendly toward those birds. But, in the April 4, 1967 Peanuts daily comic strip, a single bird flew in after a long flight while Snoopy was lying on top of his dog house. He chose Snoopyâs nose as a good place to rest, and Snoopy uncharacteristically accepted this intrusion. Over the next two days, Charles Schulz began to establish character traits for Snoopyâs new friend by revealing that he could talk (more accurately that he could complain, in the form of repetitive sounds in word formââgripe, gripe, gripe, gripe", âcomplain, complain, âŠâ), that, unlike normal birds, he didnât like to fly south every winter, and that his flying skills were not quite up to snuff. By the end of this four-strip sequence, Snoopy, in character as the World War I Flying Ace, learns that the bird is his new mechanic â Woodstockâs first supporting role. After this introduction, the unnamed Woodstock is seen with Snoopy on occasion, and other birds continue to appear as they had for years. But Woodstock is singled out as the bird who befriended Snoopy, in part by continuing references to him as the Flying Aceâs mechanic (July 12, 1967; June 12â14, 1968). Finally, on June 14, 1968, fourteen months after his first landing on Snoopy and after a second appearance as a supporting character for Snoopy (his wrist wrestling partner on April 25, 1968), the most important aspect of Woodstockâs relationship with Snoopy is made clearâSnoopy first refers to this bird as his buddy. That identification was more than enough for readers to know, if they hadnât already figured it out, that this little bird, name or no name, had assumed the role of a regular character in the Peanuts cast.
âSchulz did not give him a name until June 22, 1970. Schulz acknowledged in several print and TV interviews in the mid-1970s that he took Woodstockâs name from the rock festival. (The festivalâs logo showed a bird perched on a guitar.)â
Templo S.U.D. almost 12 years ago
lovely
lmchildress almost 12 years ago
Heh. Subtle, Linus, very subtle.
legaleagle48 almost 12 years ago
Oh, I donât know â itâs the thought that counts, after all!
locuravamp almost 12 years ago
HowâŠsweet?
GROG Premium Member almost 12 years ago
Why not top it with cherry-flavored cough sirup?
alondra almost 12 years ago
It was a nice thought. But Iâd set it aside so I could enjoy the ice cream. It feels good on a sore throat.
bresnik415 almost 12 years ago
Phlegm Phest coming!
summerdog86 almost 12 years ago
You ask the brother who made you hot cocoa with a brown crayon?
Number Three almost 12 years ago
That is CLASSIC!
Why didnât you put a slice of lemon on the top too? No⊠I take that back.
Lucy already has a face as sour as a lemon permanently.
LOL xxx
wronhewitt almost 12 years ago
Linus is a good soulâŠhe never seems to try to get even for all the grief anâ big sister bullying he gets from Lucy. It is the little brotherâs lot in life when the first born is a girlâŠI know â because my sister was born two years before meâŠ
AmyGrantfan51774 almost 12 years ago
thatâs funny!!!!âŠI have this strip itâs in the same book as the birds think itâs page 3 or 4 âŠLinus is good huh trying to be nice???âŠbut wished he couldâve gotten even for all the grief and abuse he got from Lucy
safistikaytdlayd almost 12 years ago
what a sweet little brother!!!
Snoopy_Fan almost 12 years ago
@RobertNowell and anyone else who thinks that any bird in Peanuts just has to be WoodstockâŠ
I grew up in the â60s and early â70s. When I first got into the Peanuts comics in the mid-60s, there were few strips that even used birds. The Peanuts books that had a bird that would become Woodstock did not come out until around 1968. Even then, the bird was seen only sporadically. I remember the name didnât come until later. There are birds of many different colors and not every bird in this strip is Woodstock.
From Wikipedia:
âSnoopy began befriending birds in the early 1960s, when they started using his doghouse for various purposes: a rest stop during migrations, a nesting site, or a place to play cards. None of these birds were ever given names, or even used speech balloons; they simply looked at Snoopy and he understood them. What set Woodstock apart from all these earlier birds was the fact that he attached himself to Snoopy and assumed the role of Snoopyâs sidekick and assistant. There had been no recurring relationships between Snoopy and the earlier birds who visited the yard of the Brown family, and Snoopy was as often as not more hostile than friendly toward those birds. But, in the April 4, 1967 Peanuts daily comic strip, a single bird flew in after a long flight while Snoopy was lying on top of his dog house. He chose Snoopyâs nose as a good place to rest, and Snoopy uncharacteristically accepted this intrusion. Over the next two days, Charles Schulz began to establish character traits for Snoopyâs new friend by revealing that he could talk (more accurately that he could complain, in the form of repetitive sounds in word formââgripe, gripe, gripe, gripe", âcomplain, complain, âŠâ), that, unlike normal birds, he didnât like to fly south every winter, and that his flying skills were not quite up to snuff. By the end of this four-strip sequence, Snoopy, in character as the World War I Flying Ace, learns that the bird is his new mechanic â Woodstockâs first supporting role. After this introduction, the unnamed Woodstock is seen with Snoopy on occasion, and other birds continue to appear as they had for years. But Woodstock is singled out as the bird who befriended Snoopy, in part by continuing references to him as the Flying Aceâs mechanic (July 12, 1967; June 12â14, 1968). Finally, on June 14, 1968, fourteen months after his first landing on Snoopy and after a second appearance as a supporting character for Snoopy (his wrist wrestling partner on April 25, 1968), the most important aspect of Woodstockâs relationship with Snoopy is made clearâSnoopy first refers to this bird as his buddy. That identification was more than enough for readers to know, if they hadnât already figured it out, that this little bird, name or no name, had assumed the role of a regular character in the Peanuts cast.
âSchulz did not give him a name until June 22, 1970. Schulz acknowledged in several print and TV interviews in the mid-1970s that he took Woodstockâs name from the rock festival. (The festivalâs logo showed a bird perched on a guitar.)â