Peanuts by Charles Schulz for September 16, 2022

All very complex questions

I wish summers were short.

The last question is more difficult.

Rayleigh scattering, chlorophyll, carotenoids, etc.

If you were a baby. I would call you that.

Isn’t he her sweet Baboo?

Earth’s orbit about the sun is not perfectly circular, therefore our forward motion [orbital speed] is slightly slower at aphelion where Earth is farthest from the sun, but the difference averages about a couple of days between the equinoxes. Therefore, summer in the northern hemisphere lasts slightly longer (93 days) than summer in the southern hemisphere (89 days). edited from WIKI [yes, 93 – 89 is more than a couple]

I guess Lucy is too young to realize that perhaps Schroeder is more interested in music than her and perhaps other females for that matter……

How come you haven’t noticed that he’s ignoring you?

Teacher: Can anyone give me an example of things that expand when they’re hot and contract when they’re cold?

Pupil: The days are long in the summer and short in the winter.

Winter is as long as summer, it’s the days that are shorter

It becomes easier and easier to ignore her when she just keeps on asking and asking questions virtually nonstop.

When you get around to being sweet, he may call you that…

how come you can’t take the hint.

I think you have to be one for him to call you that.

This strip reminds me of that great Bugs Bunny/Daffy Duck dialogue which ends with Daffy screaming, “Kill me now, kill me now, kill me now.” Fortunately, Schroeder was smarter than Daffy.

The Cascades asked those same questions in 1962.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ivo9kTKzo1E

If you have to ask, because you’re not!

Schroeders like will you shut up????

Is she ever sweet?

Because he doesn’t like you.

Those are just the mysteries of nature, Lucy.

Ah, she saved the real question for last. I admire her for asking. I left mine for too long.

Because of all the Lucy Van Pelts in the world, you’re the LucyVanPeltiest. 8>)

Because you are neither sweet nor a baby.

“…sweet baby…” haha…she’s hilarious

Psychiatric Help. That’ll be 5 cents please!

1. The way the atmosphere refracts sunlight

2. Chlorophyll

3. Selective breeding

4. It reflects all wavelengths of light more or less equally.

5. Because we’re not getting sunlight

6 and 7. They’re of equal length but seasonal affective disorder can throw off your perception of time.

8. He doesn’t like you.

’Cuz?

If Lucy comes over again,Schroeder is going into Haydn.

How about Supermouth?

Next she’ll ask why he doesn’t sing her love songs anymore.

Summers seem to drag on forever. I wish we could go from spring straight into fall.

Why he should?

Move to Florida, where summers are the best eleven-and-a-half months of the year.

What I really want to know is where the white goes when the snow melts.

Sweet baby, I need an answer!

I wonder if Schroeder wrote anything himself, or if he just played the classics. Seems he could have used Lucy as a muse

I only have one question: Why is Lucy still delusional?

Lucy, you forgot……….

Why are there so many

Songs about rainbows

And what’s on the other side

Rainbows are visions

They’re only illusions

And rainbows have nothing to hide

So we’ve been told and some chose to

Believe it

But I know they’re wrong wait and see

Someday we’ll find it

The Rainbow Connection

The lovers, the dreamers and me

Who said that every wish

Would be heard and answered

When wished on the morning star

Somebody thought of that

And someone believed it

And look what it’s done so far

What’s so amazing

That keeps us star gazing

What so we think we might see

Someday we’ll find it

That Rainbow Connection

The lovers the dreamers and me

Have you been fast asleep

And have you heard voices,

I’ve heard them calling my name

Is this the sweet sound that calls

The piano players

The voice might be one and the same

I’ve heard it too many times to ignore it

It’s something that I’m supposed to be

Someday we’ll find it

The rainbow connection

The lovers, the dreamers and me

La lala la lala la la la lala la la la

“Because you’re not a baby anymore, and you never were sweet.”

You’re welcome, Schroeder.

Because you’re a chatterbox Lucy. Why don’t you give Schroeder a break and allow him to play and sing out with joy and gusto “You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me Lucille.”

That last question is very easy to answer…

Dust, chloraphyl (Chlorafil?), don’t know, that’s how water freezes, not actually black, their the same length, and he doesn’t like you and barely tolerates you.

That last one is easy; he doesn’t like you.

I got good answers to all of these…

Because you aren’t neither!!

now there’s a song!

Schroeder: Because you’re annoying me.

Because he doesn’t like you

DUH!

Schroeder once did call Lucy “sweet”, or at least that’s how she heard it… https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1953/01/27

Because you’re a sadistic, overbearing, female chauvinist monster.

Rayleigh scattering, the chlorophyll in the leaves, to attract pollinators such as insects, the way light reflects and refracts off the crystalline structure of the snowflakes, the absence of sunlight, I don’t know about the next two, and because he doesn’t like you.