Peanuts by Charles Schulz for December 27, 2022

You’re going to drop dead, Sally, when you get a failing grade.

Almost any occasion, glad she said that because there would be some awkward times to say it.

Sally used the same penmanship book in her school that I did. In later life American adults from other areas were mystified by the Q that looks like a 2. And of course nowadays young adults can’t read cursive. Here in S. Europe the children’s text books are printed in cursive from the get-go. They graduate from lines and circles straight to cursive writing at age 5.

She’d have been better off quoting, “I disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.”

Makes you think. Today’s comic is either drop-dead hilarious or Schulz was being drop-dead serious. I can’t tell which. Good grief!

It IS a very useful quotation and CAN be used for almost any occasion. Sally should get a “C-” at least.

Fredric Brown would agree. He wrote a short story about a guy who gets hit by lightning, and when he says “Drop dead!” to people, they do. Wow!

Sally, quotes aren’t sayings. In other words, if it’s not attributable to anyone, it’s just a saying… So, I’m saying, DROP DEAD!

And if everyone did drop dead, you would be all alone. I think I saw a Twilight Zone show on that theme.

Originally, the Q was like a 2 in cursive. However NAC (New American Cursive) has eliminated most flourishes, embelishments & loops to simplify it for the ‘modern generation’ (also for legibility). When I learned cursive, some 65 years ago, we still had the Q looking like a 2 .. but its changed, as have most things, since then.

Charlie Brown’s quote can be just as useful. It can also be used for almost any occasion or situation he is in. “Good grief!”

I wonder where she picked that phrase up…

I fear Sally has APD = Acidic Personality Disorder. Hopefully she’ll outgrow it. We don’t need another Sourpuss in the world!

My favorite quotation is from Bart Simpson – “I didn’t do it!”

Cursive is so hard to read.

Lucy deserves that statement,drop dead!!!

Almost any occasion. Hopefully you’ll use something different at your wedding.

Reading Sally’s writing gives me a headache.

oh, drop dead! – love this “quote” for anything controversial. makes an excellent “comeback retort” also Sally. we used it a lot in the ‘60s and ’70s to keep from getting our mouths washed out with soap if we used the other phrase that so many people use today like it’s proper English when they try to think of a comeback retort but don’t have enough brain cells to do so.

My dear Sally, you are confusing a “saying” with a “quotation.” A “saying” is merely something that is said. A “quotation” is something that is said by another giving acknowledgment to that person.

Her penmanship is much better than her older brother’s. He prints, and he can’t use a pen properly without squirting ink all over.

I assume the pathologist working alone at night at the morgue doesn’t use this phrase often.

Assertive yet honest

She’s not wrong, but I still prefer to say “Eat shi—”

I was taught cursive in Nebraska. My dad was career Navy so we moved around to wear he was stationed. I think it was Malden (Boston) MA but could have been Brooklyn. I also think it was 4th grade. They didn’t write school work. We had boxes of letters (all caps) & numbers. We did our assignments on the desk top with the (scrabble) tiles. I could do it faster with paper & pencil but I had to waste time digging thru boxes to find the letters or numbers I needed!

It’s a great quotation as they go, Sally! :D

Sally would never say that to her sweet babboo.

One of my favourites is, “Eschew meretricious sesquipadalianisms.”

Saw a British standup comic years ago. For the benefit of his American audience, he told us that the London subway system is familiarly known as the “Underground”. On a trip to New York, he got lost and asked the nearest passerby what was the quickest way to get underground.

The man said, (naturally) “Drop dead”

https://dropdead.world/

Sally, my hero.

I prefer ‘Good Grief’.

I wish more people would talk like Sally and refrain from using today’s MORE Colorful METAPHORS that sadly, are the norm!