Peanuts by Charles Schulz for November 09, 1950
Transcript:
Charlie Brown and Patty walk down the sidewalk talking. He says,"The future frightens me!"<BR><BR> They stop and she says,"I don't see why...you're young and full of life..."<BR><BR> They sit on the curb and she continues,"You'll probably live for another sixty years!"<BR><BR> He replies,"That's what frightens me!"<BR><BR>
GoComics Moderator over 13 years ago
And this strip is 60 years old…
delaterra over 13 years ago
True… and it’s the first philosophical one…
mac47 over 13 years ago
Oh. You will.
Storm F-1/4 almost 13 years ago
May he live to be 60+ more.
yow4zip Premium Member over 12 years ago
Very insightful.
WarLegalomon about 12 years ago
He can truly see into the future.
Omenthus over 10 years ago
Yup. You have a full 50+ year career of misery and failure ahead of you, Charlie Brown…
RerunsforeveryoneCB almost 10 years ago
And he did Yay!
IceDude101 over 9 years ago
..and that’s exactly what he did. Frightening, all right!
linus82 about 8 years ago
It’s almost 66 years
MegaCass about 7 years ago
/r/meirl in a nutshell
DutchCountryman about 5 years ago
A very prescient strip. The dialogue could be from any strip in the future. Their first philosophizing. Also seems to be the first hint of Charlie Brown’s inferiority complex.
Commenter8888 over 3 years ago
you know, i’m gonna start typing in lowercase all the time unless i’m mad. if i do properly capitalize stuff, run.
76noos almost 2 years ago
ironic…he really does survive for sixty years
jedi936 over 1 year ago
Well… the strip lasted for fifty years.
[Unnamed Reader - b10daf] 3 months ago
It seems that life expectancy has increased since 1950.