Peanuts by Charles Schulz for January 23, 2023

Hopefully Sally won’t be cancelled for that!

At least this predates an American archeologist named Henry Jones, Jr., right?

“We’re from Indiana and we’re gonna move.” (Jim Gaffigan)

Indiana wants meLord, I can’t go back there

Tune in next time to find out why Ohio is great!

Including Indiana Jones?

So it doesn’t come from in Diana?

Nope. Came across the Bering Land Bridge from the Asian continent. Where in Asia is a good question.

“…is where the Indianas come from!” Never heard it better put.

As far as I know people who lived in Indiana loved the Greek goddess Diana so much that they couldn’t bear to live Without Diana, so they had to name the state living In Diana.

She’s not that far off. The name Indiana means “Land of the Indians”.

That’s a… certain level of offensive. Still not as bad as right-wingers who wanna just whitewash ’merica’s entire history.

Are they going to change the state name because it has Indian in it, like they did with sport teams?

Naw it isn’t…the Indy 500 of course…..

suddenly peppermint pattie’s teacher has a new companion at the bar after school

Do we know where Peanuts is set? Is it Indiana? I’m just asking because I don’t know.

Sally, you’d better think twice before you say something like that. Otherwise, you’ll get cancelled and have to write a stupid public apology letter.

I thought that’s where Hoosiers came from. What is a Hoosier, anyway?

Makes sense…

Of course, silly me. Imagine me thinking it had anything to do with the American Indian. Must be a guy thing.

Kamala Harris when she was a kid.

Good strategy. Not a smart one, but good. Just make up a story and hope it’s true enough to get a passing grade.

And his name was Gary.

Gary, Indiana!

What a wonderful name

Named for Elbert Gary of judiciary fame

Gary, Indiana, as a Shakespeare would say

Trips along softly on the tongue this way

Gary, Indiana, Gary Indiana, Gary, Indiana

Let me say it once again

Gary, Indiana, Gary, Indiana, Gary, Indiana

That’s the town that “knew me when”

Now if you’d like to have a logical explanation

How I happened on this elegant syncopation

I will say without a moment of hesitation

There is just one place

That can light my face

Gary, Indiana

Gary Indiana

Not Louisiana, Paris, France, New York, or Rome, but

Gary, Indiana

Gary, Indiana

Gary Indiana

My home sweet home

Our brilliant Republican state government is currently debating whether or not to make “Hoosier” an official term for Indiana residents. …’cuz, you know, there aren’t any real problems out there. (it’s a debate, ‘cuz no one really knows where the term came from for sure, but if it’s good enough for Hollywood it should be good enough for us. …and Indianans is ridiculous)

The first Indy film festival was there and so well received, they now have them all across the globe

Not “Indianas,” or even “Indianans.” “Hoosiers.” If you want any grade at all on your report, Sally, you have to explain why.

Indiana is the only midwestern state that was settled by Southerners moving westward—including Abraham Lincoln’s pro-slavery father. That’s why it’s such a red state. Its legislature once tried to pass a law dictating the value of pi as being 3 “because the Bible says so” and to make math easier on school children, and only stopped after professors from Purdue begged them not to make the state an international laughingstock. Also: it has three time zones. The western third goes with Chicago, the eastern third with the east coast, and the middle third refuses to do daylight savings time. Airline schedulers have fun with all that. (Our first day in grad school, parked in a two hour zone, looked at a clock and asked someone what time zone we were in to be sure we weren’t going to get a ticket and his response was, I don’t know…)

And don’t forget all the dames from Notre.

Huh?

This will sound as though I’m joking, but I’m not. The Shawnee Tecumseh wanted to organize the Native Americans into a nation, on a parcel of land reserved for them, which would be called “Indiana,” since the whites referred to them as “Indians.” This was explained in “The Patriot Chiefs,” by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.