Peanuts by Charles Schulz for March 21, 2023

Sally and Snoopy sure are quite the show-offs, aren’t they?

Never let the truth stand in the way of a good story Sally!

“Alternative facts”

Revisionist history at its best (or worst).

I like Snoopy’s ear in the third panel.

Ooh how I like yarn spinning. This is gonna be a big’un.

Creative Writing

Not if you’re planning to follow a career on news.

The criteria for grades do not matter. That beagle is a hero for me, anyway.

Like the Snoopy expressions…

Even dogs can be heroes.

not if you want it to sell

What’s a metatarsal?

Fifth Metatarsal? I broke my fifth metatarsal and all I got was a board with a Velcro strap on my foot. Called it a “surgical shoe”.

Oddly enough, I’ve already forgotten how he broke it. This feels like a long storyline.

Unless it’s on imagination…

Love Soopy’s helpful posing…

Come back in 20 years, Sally. There’s a job waiting for you on cable news.

Sally, if you have to ask, then you should know the answer.

Must be Snoopy’s story. He likes airline stewardesses.

Four weeks ago, Snoopy told the story of “three airline stewardesses on runaway horses” to Linus, who must have relayed it to Sally… https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/2023/02/21

“But, man, you’re never going to get any truth from us. We’ll tell you anything you want to hear; we lie like he//.” ~ Howard Beale from “Network”

Beagle Tin Tin. This is how Sally is different from her brother.Charlie would be too timid to do this,

I want to know how he broke his first four metatarsals

Wow, through all of the years, I never realized that Sally’s ambition was to be Fox News personality. I use the term personality as the definition for personality is different from journalist.

What she loses on truth she’ll gain on creativity

The Snoopy-with-a-leg-in-a-cast story arc has been going on for some time. Makes me wonder if Sparky was dealing with the same thing in real life at the time he was drawing these strips.

I am a volunteer guide at a historic cemetery—in some sense a professional storyteller. All of the guides at this particular cemetery have to do their own research and plan their own tours. BUT—the over-arching factor in all of our presentations is—“No guide can improvise. Everything you tell a visitor must be fact-based. Never make anything up”.

Let’s just say that improvsation isn’t necessary, and that truth really is stranger than fiction.If Sally could be motivated to do the necessary research, she’d make a fine guide.

Originality is good too…..

Truth be d***ed, full speed ahead.

If so, Sally, you’d never have made it this far in school.

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

Then yeah you would have been. Now, truth and fact have become strictly optional among some.

Or as a Republican politician

These days, probably not. Facts have unfortunately become unpopular, thanks mainly to the late Richie “Never let the facts get in the way of a good story” Ashburn.

As long as no one thinks Snoopy’s a moose.