Peanuts by Charles Schulz for November 26, 2021

What did you expect going to a barber? Barbers cut hair, beauticians style.

Of course, you didn’t say anything either, Patty….

Sometimes Chuck isn’t so sure you are a girl.

Your name is Patti…

Oh poor Patti!

You didn’t tell Mr. Brown that important detail, “Patrizio.”

If this cartoon were done today, Patti would have no problem with people seeing her new hairstyle.

dorothy hammil cut!

That’s Patty for you. Blame everybody but herself.

An adult had to be told that a kid named Patty is a girl? In the seventies?

No Sir!

Is it ‘Poetic Justice?’ Perhaps Lucy should be his next client….

Could be worse: just look at Chuck’s “hairdo”

Go see Dawn in For Better or For Worse.

At least it will grow back.

Well this one is on P Patty. She should have told Chuck’s Dad that she wanted the haircut for a figure skating competition and although she blasts Chuck’s baseball team every time they play and is a tomboy who is called “Sir” by her best friend, she is in fact a female by gender. A tomboy named Patty with red-hair and freckles could easily be mistaken for an Irish or Scottish boy. Plus who knows about Chuck’s dad, maybe he did not like that dig Patty put in on his son or maybe he knocked back a few doubles at lunch (this was the ‘70s after all, you did not have to be Don Draper or work on Wall Street to do a liquid lunch). I am surprised Chuck’s Dad did not ask her what # cut she wanted as many barber shops from that era had illustrations of the various style to assist both the barber and the client.

You just HAD to mention that you could strike out CB on 3 pitches … serves you right PP

Patty doesn’t look like a boy, though, and I imagine that she doesn’t sound like one, either. Couldn’t Mr Brown tell just from talking to her that she’s a girl? Also, didn’t Patty feel him shearing and shaving off her hair? He was only supposed to style it – why didn’t Patty stop or question him when he buzzed her head with the clippers?

Back in 1974 the women’s movement was just starting. A barber never in his wildest dreams figured that a girl would go into a barber shop to get a haircut! Don’t blame Charlie’s dad.

Time for a wig!

Charles M. Schulz was born on November 26, 1922. Happy 99th birthday, Sparky!

You didn’t bring it up either, Patty.

Maybe this was revenge for you blabbing on how you could strike CB out on three pitches!

It was not all that uncommon a practice even back then. I can recall mom’s getting their daughters short haircuts in the summer: of course this was at the beach and the girls were in the ocean almost every day – short hair is a lot easier to take care of. You can tell they were girls – they had the one-piece bathing suit at the beach and wore pink shorts otherwise. Also, boys wore “basketball sneakers,” girls wore Keds.

Time to go wig shopping…

Maybe you should’ve told him that yourself. Or maybe Chuck did tell his dad that Patty’s a girl and he gave her a crappy haircut after finding out that his son loses to a girl in sports.

Was it payback for always striking out the barber’s son?

This is going on in For Better or Worse too.

So Peppermint Patty DOES have ears.

That’s the problem with Peppermint Patty, it’s always someone else’s fault – Charlie Brown, Marcie, Snoopy, etc.

If he had to be told…

Now, I’m wondering who that reflects worse on…Patty or C.B.’s dad.

Next time don’t bring Marcie, sir.

she’s a girl??

Serves you right, Patty. With what you told Charlie’s dad about his son’s baseball prowess, you’re lucky he left any hair at all.

Saw that one coming.

Right on cue.

HAR!!

Neither did you.

Maybe Peppermint Patty Psiak can take up women’s soccer. And women.

Ha! I was right yesterday! I love being right….

This whole line is a lot like the one going on over at FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE. Same hair cut. Different reasons for it done that way.

Even when I was only 8, and reading these for the first time, I hated Peppermint Patty. She’s an oblivious, overbearing narcissist. She’s just the worst.

Patti could have told the barber she’s a girl and how she’d like her hair cut.

She is?

That’s because you look like one.

She is Trump Jr – nothing is ever her fault

Actually, I wasn’t certain Chuck knew.

Little girl trying to navigate the world without a mother?

Hee, hee!

Umm his dad should’ve been able to tell the difference. If not he shouldn’t have a razor

You can always say it was the chemo.

This was before Sinéad O’Connor was popularly known.

These days, that’s stylish for women. One of the female leads in the last season of SUPERGIRL had the exact same cut.

I think this is the perfect case for a backwards apology. “I’m sorry, I thought it was obvious you were a girl. Apparently I was wrong about that.”

Payback. Now that is funny!

You didn’t tell him you’re a girl either, Patty!

Can you not speak up?!? You could have told him yourself.

Reminds me of this: https://www.gocomics.com/forbetterorforworse/2021/11/26?ct=v&cti=896631

She didn’t tell him she was a girl?

Have to admit … I didn’t see that coming … ;)

Well, Patty, to be perfectly fair, it would seem that YOU didn’t tell him that, either.

She still looks better than Thibault…

This does not look good……

She never really ever gave off any female tendencies..Now Sally….thats a true girl!

Maybe Peppermint Patty grew up to be Pat from SNL.

Why didn’t YOU tell him?

What ?> It’s the same cool cut Candace got in “For Better For Worse”

What about YOU, Peppermint Patty? You didn’t tell him you’re a girl. Why should the blame only fall on Charlie Brown’s shoulders?

Of course you also bragged about striking Charlie Brown out in three pitches. Think it’s possible that he didn’t like that? That maybe he decided to stike you out in one pitch?

He probably heard your name as Peppermint Paddy, you know, Peppermint Patrick.

My wife went to a barber and the clown did the same thing. He was new and my wife had to wear a wig.

Exactly how I thought it will end!!

I know a lot of women with shorter hair than that.

I had longer hair left after the first haircut in basic training.