Peanuts by Charles Schulz for January 04, 2022

Jack London, Ice-ick Asimov?

The generation before Calvin’s Snowmen

Well, it’s a little soon for Leaves of Grass.

Better than Emily Dickenson?

Cute snowman!

“His snow wife reads her Emily Dickinson, and he his Robert Frost.”

No, C. P. Snow.

Stormy Fields?

Edgar Allen Cold?

I walked abroad in a snowy day/ I asked the soft snow with me to play/ She played and she melted in all her prime/ And the winter called it a dreadful crime.

Soft Snow, by William Blake

There’s other poets: Keats, Mary Shelly, A.A. Milne, Shel Silverstien, Mother Goose.

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood.” – apparently Frost did not have a grasp on quantum mechanics.

On the other hand, Yogi Berra did. “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”

Nothing like a cultured snowman…

Chills Dickens?

The Kalevala, I’ll bet.

Winter is the king of showmen,

Turning tree stumps into snow men

And houses into birthday cakes

And spreading sugar over lakes.

Smooth and clean and frosty white,

The world looks good enough to bite.

That’s the season to be young,

Catching snowflakes on your tongue!

Snow is snowy when it’s snowing.

I’m sorry it’s slushy when it’s going.

Ogden Nash

The woods are lovely, dark and deep

But I have promises to keep

And miles to go before I sleep

And miles to go before I sleep

This whole thing gives me a chill !

Peanuts Begins has a snowman comic today too.

In Snoopy en Español the “Robert Frost” pun doesn’t work, so the line about reading poetry was changed to “reading stories.” The book title was changed to “El Hombre de Nieve.” (“The Snow Man,” by Hans Christian Andersen.)

“YOU SAID IT … I DIDN’T!”?

In all fairness, Jack Frost was too obvious of a joke.

Edgar Allan Snow?

McBain: “ICE too see you.”

Mr. Freeze (Arnold): “You are not sending ME to the cooler!”

Eh, that’s enough.

Did he have a brother named Jack?

Rim-shot.

Poetry warms the soul :)

i don,t get it 3/10

I think Linus was a little miffed because CB beat him to the punch line.

Sparky, ya did it again. Grateful for your memory.

I bet I know which he’s reading then

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Whose woods these are I think I know.

His house is in the village though;

He will not see me stopping here

To watch his woods fill up with snow.

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My little horse must think it queer

To stop without a farmhouse near

Between the woods and frozen lake

The darkest evening of the year.

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He gives his harness bells a shake

To ask if there is some mistake.

The only other sound’s the sweep

Of easy wind and downy flake.

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep,

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep,

And miles to go before I sleep.

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My 6th grade teacher would be proud I at least remembered the title and the last stanza. But I had to look up the poem to get the rest. And for those who don’t already know, that’s Robert Frost’s Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

All this before Pastis was even born.

The inspiration for Calvin’s crazy snowmen, no doubt.

Poetry not in motion.

Don’t forget Jason Fox,who hasn’t run out of weird things to do with snow yet!

Whose words these are, I think I know.