Peanuts by Charles Schulz for February 06, 2021

no kidding, Snoopster

Their talking makes it easy. Just type what the say.

Back in those days, typing a term paper and turning it in at my highschool got you accused of maybe cheating. “How do I know you wrote this? Anybody can type.”

I was in college in the mid-80s. I had been typing weekly reading summaries, but our school put in a lab of Macintosh computers, complete with LaserWriters. I sat down one day, and typed my summary directly into Word and printed it. (didn’t even save it, because I didn’t have a floppy to save it on to). That was paper got me my first perfect score on those weekly summaries. And that was despite it being my worst-written one of the semester! So yeah, Peppermint Patty’s correct. ;-)

If it’s really neatness what counts I only wonder how all the doctors made it through school…

This was before the Walkman and other things you could use to listen to in order to not to listen to what they are saying!

When your work is neat, or rewritten, it’s easier to spot mistakes.

That is a a problem with open office plans.

Snoopy, you need to channel your Archie Bunker and yell: “Stifle! You Dingbats, you!”

Pig-Pen truly is doomed, in that case…

Neatness counts way too much. I always lost grades because the teacher struggled to read my reports. I had to start typing them in the 5th grade because my handwriting was so small the teacher was having trouble finding a strong enough magnifying glass to read my homework. I averaged 40 words per line in a standard school notebook.

Some teachers do seem to be overly preoccupied with margins

It’s hard to type without thumbs either.

I can attest to this…one of my HS teachers was constantly on my case for sloppy penmanship. I was ecstatic when computers became the norm…

I wonder how this canine can use the typewriter with his paws. Whatever, the noise seems to surely disturb him.

A professor is conducting a final exam. He is an extremely difficult S.O.B. He has told his students that all writing must stop when he calls time—anyone who doesn’t stop will automatically fail the exam. At the end all the students except one finish as instructed. The one student keeps writing furiously for 30 seconds or so until he is stopped by the professor, who tells him he has failed the exam.

The student walks to the front of the room with his paper and attempts to argue. The professor doesn’t budge, so finally the student takes an attitude and says, “Do you know who I am?” The professor sneers and says, “No, I don’t, and it wouldn’t matter, anyway!” The student then says “Good!”, sticks his paper into the middle of the stack already turned in, and yells “Have a nice day!” as he runs out of the room… ☺

It was a dark and stormy class.

Quite right. Quiet in the Peanut gallery.

Neatness does count, but the content is also important.

Charts and graphs is what they really want. And proper punctuation!

I foresee a “ D” for Patty.

Yeah, teachers hate bad handwritting.

If only Snoopy could resist throwing in some ad-libs.

33 years ago, I went from a 3 letter maiden name to a 10 letter last name. My signature still drops off into scribbling at the end.

You’re gonna pay snoopy to type your letter and you’re still going to get a bad grade

This reminds me of Calvin’s clear plastic binder.

So, NOBODY’S going to comment about how that paper is able to stay on Snoopy’s roof?

I recall my mechanical drawing teacher writing on a plate of which I took hours to complete and her comment was: ‘Messy! Messy! Messy!.’ in letters so large they covered the entire plate. Needless to say I had to re-do that plate…..sigh. Memories.