Peanuts by Charles Schulz for November 27, 2018

Today he probably wouldn’t say a word about it. Though today Sally would be working for $5,000 a week.

He has elves who work for free!

but will you be able to handle the freezing cold of the North Pole, Sally?

$500/week works out to only be $26000/year. (I realize that the strip was originally done when that was a lot of money.) But I still think she needs to hold out for and include a 401k, health and dental benefits.

$500/week works out to only be $26000/year. (I realize that the strip was originally done when that was a lot of money.) But I still think she needs to hold out for and include a 401k, health and dental benefits.

At that wage, she could buy her own presents.

He can’t be that drunk.

At least Sally is trying to get something for something, for a change. She usually tries to get it for nothing.

I hate that they no longer have Peanuts Holiday Countdown.

Hey, there’s no harm in asking!

It is refreshing to see a youngster using cursive.

Hey – there’s moving expenses to the North Pole, and propane isn’t cheap. (Of course, he does have all that coal in reserve…)

$500 a week would be a shade over $3,000 in today’s dollars.

A nice sum in 1971… when someone making $15000 a year was doing pretty well, Sally would be doing VERY well… nowadays, that $500/week means you could qualify for assistance…

Only thing, would she be able to handle the cold weather up there?

Miserly.

500 a week in 1971? Wow. She is ambitious

She has lovely handwriting. Far better than Charlie Brown’s smudged pen pal letters.

So has Santa sold out to Amazon yet?

Does the position include benefits?

Look, Charlie, let’s face it. We all know that Christmas is a big commercial racket. It’s run by a big eastern syndicate, you know.

Santa’s secretary is a very responsible position and its salary should reflect this. Naughty kids will be constantly offering bribes to be slipped onto the Nice list, and Sally would need to be comfortable enough that she feels no temptation.

Santa is not doing any hiring anyway so why all the above chatter???

It cost a load of money to move his operations from North Pole to the South Pole in 1904. (AGW he saw the writing on the wall. He knew that Arctica has no land mass, but Antarctica does. And in the dim past it was the original north. )

He made sure to be far enough away from the ruins of the alien megalopolis he found there. A bit irksome when the German Nazis set up their special research base not to far away (1936-1942). After the war the last battle of World War two happened near there and the Anglo-Americans lost.× The camouflage screen protected them from being seen, but not anything stirred up.

Called “Op. High Jump” that left in 1946 and was only there 6 months out of the 12 months they had planned returning in 1947. Even today there are certain sections that aircraft are forbidden to fly over. Covers Ultima Thule and remnants of the Old One’s city.

According to the British Antarctic Survey, Antarctica’s temperatures have risen by 2.8C (5F) over the past 50 years, considerably faster than the planet as a whole. (2015)

x Operation Highjump From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

¶ At the Mountains of Madness By H. P. Lovecraft

http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mm.aspx

That’s even greedier than Charlie Brown Christmas when she wanted “tens and twenties” for Christmas.