Peanuts by Charles Schulz for September 07, 2023

Leave them laughing Sally…if you can!

Mix it up a bit, get some cursive A’s.

Off to a crushing start.

Don’t remind me!

As an average kid, I had to settle for getting STRAIGHT C’s!

And I’ll tell you. Getting straight C’s isn’t the easiest thing in the world!

How about a couple of As that are bent so they look like Fs.

Her teacher is probably Mrs. Donovan, the one who sent Charlie Brown to the principal when he yelled at her after losing the spelling bee.

That teacher just has no sense of humor!

A merry young man from Yuma; told an elephant joke to a puma; Now his skeleton lies; under hot western skies; The puma had no sense of huma! (a bit like Sally’s teacher) :D

Bent A’s?

The highest grade in my elementary school was “S” for Satisfactory. The school-wide running joke was that if someone said they got “Straight S’s”, the reply was “You can’t get straight S’s, because S’s aren’t straight!”.

Laugh with the world and the world laughs with you, except when the school authorities are around.

Nice try, Sally…

Ah, the last laugh. Keep it cool, there, Sally.

Pretty young for Sally to realize she is straight, eh?

HAHAHAHA !

Sally, standup comedy is not for you.

Unlike the teacher, I liked your little joke

My grades were pretty bent…

Another humourless teacher. Get ready for a long year Sal.

No laughing in class.

Good one, Sally! First day of school and we already have a “sit-down” comedian in our midst!

How can they be straight when they’re graded on a curve?

Get crooked "A"s and go to law school later

Some jokes sound better in one’s head…

Better stick to talking to the school building Sally.

She got straight hA’s…

Pray the teacher doesn’t grade on a curve, Sally.

wonder how many times the teacher has heard that one before, even good jokes get old after awhile

Lighten up Teach, that was funny.

The sarcasm is expressed in no lesser means.

In my head I heard a trombone blast between the third and fourth panels.

all my life I got bent A’s. usually bent into a right-facing open-side half circle. if I did get a bent one, it was usually one straight leg with the other leg a bit short sticking straight out on top and the crossbar sticking straight out below it. maybe they didn’t notice because I would help out the teacher and enclose the open side of the straight one thus making a much nicer letter.