Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for January 25, 2021

So in conclusion, Schroeder and Lucy could’ve both saved themselves almost 50 years of grief (not the good kind) if Mrs. Van Pelt had bought her daughter a children’s dictionary.

Not only Schroeder called you sweet, Lucy, he also brought you flowers.

Enjoy it for now. You will eventually learn the meaning.

Wait’ll he plays “Thick as a Brick.”

It begins!

Confused by a homonym, Lucy!

Suites for my sweets, sugar for my Honey!

Why is he playing Tchaikovsky…

So THAT’S how it started…

That’s nice, suiteheart.

So that’s where her infatuation started! With a misunderstanding… Poor Schroeder!

More than one piano player played that trick on me, Lucy. Never felt closer.

And this is how all begun.

And so it begins….

Uh oh. Lucy’s head was irradiated.

Following a class when we were talking about the importance of punctuation, one of my students came up and said she had seen the following sign on her former English professor’s door:

Let’s go eat grandma

Let’s go eat, grandma

Punctuation saves lives.

Lucy should get herself a style guide tout sweet!

And so it begins.

I have a Christmas ornament with this scene on it, and children’s voices saying the story. Yep, the start of Lucy’s infatuation.

Uh oh. This means future trouble.

Too bad Lucy can’t see the speech bubbles; she can only hear the words!

And so it begins.

It’s in the punctuation, Lucy. ‘The Nutcracker Suite’ as against ‘The Nutcracker, Sweet’.