Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for October 18, 2016

can you really blame a small child carrying a big racket?

Never played tennis. But did play badminton with tennis rackets as a teenager. Dad and I couldn’t play with the badminton rackets that came with the set, we always ended up with the birdie stuck in the racket about half the time. Nothing like spending half the game having to dislodge a birdie from a racket. Dad and mom had apparently tried playing tennis years before and we still had the tennis rackets so we switched to them. No more stuck birdies. But now we had the birdies going so fast that we called it killer badminton. Nothing quite like getting lifted off your feet and thrown on your butt by a birdie travelling at probably 50MPH when it hit’s you in the chest.

Who’s serving?

When are they gonna invent composite rackets?

Lucy didn’t take her cod-liver oil that morning.

first utterance of “Good Grief!”

Ahh, the days before aluminum rackets. Those wooden rackets were definitely heavier.

Is that where Charlie Brown got the “good grief” saying?

Annie in “The Meaning of Lila” is a small child with several rackets…

She can’t speak softly, either.