Peanuts by Charles Schulz for October 28, 2022

if not washing cars, Peppermint Patty, then how about homework tutoring? (good luck at that on your part)

The Great Pumpkin Great Organization

“Then I saw the Great Pumpkins face, now I’m a believer Not a trace of doubt in my mind” (The Monkees)

“The Great Pumpkin saith unto him, Linus, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.” (John 20:29 (almost))

Kids believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy because they come into their houses to bring toys, candy, and money. The big three don’t make you dress up and go door-to-door yourself for goodies. You just wake up and there it is. If the Great Pumpkin wants to build his brand, he needs to put in the work.

She could hold a bake sale.

Peppermint Patty would make a mint with a dunking booth!

Needless to say this was published in between “Working At The Car Wash Blues” and “Car Wash.”

Patty, you can sell Peppermint Patties candy. Of course.

And thus, the seeds of the Q-Anon conspiracy theory are sown …

And it’s Linus eternal belief in the Great Pumpkin that cost him his student council position.

I figured Linus would become a cult leader in the future. Never did like the kid.

Count The Count in as a Believer. The Count knows several women with Great Pumpkins. ;9

Well, since you’re one of the early disciples; how about being the chairperson of the committees that handle fundraisers?

Other than Halloween, what other holidays are there?

Peppermint Patti in a bikinni. Shudder!

Great! Just what we need…. another cult!

Wonder if the phrase “fund raisings” is common in some region of the US. The N-gram viewer shows that “fund raisers” has always been vastly more common over time including the 1970s and looking at some of the hits for fund raisings shows most usage more along the line of discussing the broad activity of raising money (fund raising either for charities or as part of investment banking) and then speaking about this across multiple organizations in the plural than describing an individual event as a “fund raising”. However, as recently as 2018 Virginia Brown’s The Blue Rain has “… I and my students helped the home for the aged, and the orphanages through the Fund Raisings that we did. In order to do the Fund Raisings, I directed Stage Plays.” using it in the sense that Schultz is here, so it could be more common regionally.

Anyone from somewhere that this idiom is used instead of “fund raiser”?

It is amazing how gullible people are, and they are supposed to be the most intelligent life form on the planet!

Linus… Will you be serving… punch… at these gatherings?

Way to be a team player, Patty!

If they’re charging dues,count me out

Young prophets in the making.

Have Peppermint Patty running track to raise money for the movement. X number of laps for Y amount of money. Course she’ll have to go door to door and get some pledges to donate. And she might not want to explain why they’d be donate the money, otherwise it’ll be you guys would have to give the Z amount just to stop laughing in your face.

I’ve been a Peanuts fan since the 50s. I just realized this sounds like a cult… Put down that Kool-aid!

Fund raisings are boring; they should have fun raisins instead. Sitting in a grape vineyard on April 30, the National Raisin Day, beats freezing in a pumpkin patch on Halloween.

We all must make sacrifices, Peppermint Patty.

Make pumpkin brownies and have a bake sale.

There are dozens of us, I say. Dozens!