Peanuts by Charles Schulz for May 06, 2022

who knew you were quite the florist, Lucy

“Norose” suggests you have skin inflammation, itch, or rash.

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She is obviously reading the wrong book.

maybe it’s time you rose up and left Lucy!

But it is in the cards.

“I beg your pardon. I never promised you a rose garden.” (Lynn Anderson)

“Stop and Take the Time to Smell the Roses” (Ringo Starr)

I found out, much to my chagrin, a yellow rose, in France, is offered to a mistress…

You could try the Addams family style. Cut off the flower and just give the stem, with the thorns still attached.

If you want a flower from Austria, Lucy, would you settle for an edelweiss?

No rose doesn’t give Lucy a rise!

“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” – William Shakespeare

What if he gives her a thorny stem

Looks like Schroeder revamped Captain Beefheart’s song title-No Red Rose That I Mean.

How about Pete Rose?

What book is that?

How about a bucket of dirt dumped on your head?

I know this strip was rerun twice before: First in 2001 when it replaced a 1973 strip and again in 2005 when it replaced a 1969 strip.

in ancient Rome, the rose was a funeral flower.

Lucy had a good comeback this time, for a change

If they lived in Elizabethan times, and Lucy were an ‘orange wench’…No, I’m not going to go there…

Lucy, if you’re trying to seduce Schroeder with poems, it ain’t gonna happen.

I think this is how the War of the Roses started.

She ain’t no Roseanne Roseannadanna

Give her a rose with the head cut off. That may say something.

Welcome to the mine field Schroeder.

“The opposite of love isn’t hate, it’s indifference.” – Elie Wiesel

The opposite of a rose isn’t a rotting gingko berry (notoriously foul-smelling), it is simply “no rose.”

One V Day many years ago I looked up the meanings of rose colors and it was quite interesting. Let’s see, red is for romance, yellow is for friendship, orange is for infatuation, white is for innocence (like, you’d send one to a young kid on a special occasion). Then apparently there are black roses, which I’ve never seen but symbolize mourning, and blue roses, which I’ve also never seen and can’t remember what they were for.

Occasionally I give yellow roses if I really want to express how much I value a friend. Because most people don’t know what they symbolize I explain the meaning preemptively. Even so it’s gotten me some weird looks, because people are used to thinking that roses mean romantic desire. Thus, I’ve given this gift less and less often over the years.

You have to admire her tenaciousness.

What do dandelions say?

Never fall in love with a musician.

Lucy fails again and again to accept ignoring her by Schroeder. Maybe Schroeder should lock his front door (and the back one too) before playting his piano. That could solve the problem.

No roses says “I’m saving my roses to lay at the grave of the Immortal Beloved December 16th in honor of Beethoven’s love of her.”

A rose by other name

I saw some beautiful Austrian roses in Melbourne several years ago. Wait…what?