Peanuts by Charles Schulz for January 16, 2022

At least it’s not a snow snake. Those things are scary!

I bet she heard about the Great Pumpkin as well!

Wait until he tells you about Queen Snakes.

My school report was on rattle snakes. Rattle snakes make great babysitters because they always shake their rattles which sound soothes babies and keeps them quiet. So my authority told me.

Rock snakes, queen snakes and gila monsters! Linus lived in fear, but that’s understandable with Lucy as an older sister.

But Rock Snakes protect the pumpkins in the Pumpkin Patch to maintain their sincerity. Surely all know this, Linus says it is so.

Next Report: Vietnamese Barking Spiders …

Sally’s next report will be about milk snakes giving milk like cows.

If I were a grade school kid in the Peanuts universe, my highlight of the school day would be waiting for Sally to give these reports. Also, I never noticed as a kid that she has Wolverine’s hairstyle.

Linus wasn’t always the brainy, soft-spoken know-it-all we know and love today.

Next report: Trouser snakes. In a few years

“Safety” ~ Linus after Freddy out in the top panel.

There were no rock snakes where they lived. The Great Pumpkin came and drove them all out which is why we wear orange on Great Pumpkin Day. Somehow, the parades and orange beer hasn’t caught on yet.

Reminds me a little of Peter from Cul de Sac.

The last panel brings back memories. My older sister was quite a character in school and any time I got the same teacher she had they would always ask me “Are you Barbara’s brother?”

Waiting for a comment from our resident snake expert @jasonsnakelover

“I have long feared that my sins would return to visit me…and the cost is more than I can bear.”

I thought they were ‘queen snakes’. And this was one of Linus’s few examples of not always acting so smart.

He’s in love he would do anything for Sally

I haven’t heard about rock snakes in a long time…..

So, who is teaching these things to Linus? I’m not convinced it’s Lucy. It’s probably some older cousins playing pranks.

We used to tell our cousin (who lived with us and was deathly afraid of snakes) that we had “snow snakes” in our area. Once day we attached a fake snake to a fishing reel, laid it in the snow near the sidwalk, and hid around the corner waiting for her to come home. We scared the…rocks…out of her!

Why was Linus so misinformed? This classic story arc explains it, beginning here:

https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1956/07/02

Her next report will be on gully cats.

Linus has a way of making an impression. It’s Charlie Brown that others find hard to remember.

His presentation must’ve been about the Great Pumpkin….again

Those devils ARE sneaky…….

Reminds me of comedian Orson Bean’s explanation of The Gaboon Viper so named because it only bites people in the Gaboon.

Linus is afraid of things because his older sister Lucy uses violence to cope. Hence the blanket. He is imaginative but not inquisitive with adults, so he makes up a lot of stuff.

Had an English Lit teacher my senior year, that remembered my brother from 8 yrs prior. He asked: " Do you have a brother named * ? Heh, heh, heh!" It was an interesting year.

Ah, the imagination :)

A living legend, at such a young age.

Wasn’t this strip run recently?

Then there was Sneaky Snake (who Snoopy need to watch for). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EYPxlW-luw

That sounds like the kind of stuff Lucy used to tell Linus.