Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for January 17, 2025

You’re a Roughneck, Charlie Brown.

Patty’s not wearing her signature pink dress. Time’s are changing!

A badge of honor, almost as cool as a scar!

Hey! It’s better than being a blockhead!

Of course he’s happy. The girls like a bad boy.

They can only play with smoothnecks.

From a roughneck to wishy-washy, a boy named Charlie Brown.

I’d like to see their mothers idea of a pantywaist.

Charlie Brown doesn’t look like he works on a drilling rig.

I think I like the old Charlie Brown.

Mrs. Wolowitz: Howard, what’s going on? Are you boys roughhousing?

Howard: No, we’re not roughhousing! We’re scientists! Scientists don’t roughhouse!

Mrs. Wolowitz: Excuse me, Mr. Grown-up!

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Mrs. Wolowitz:What’s going on? Are you boys roughhousing?

Howard: We’re just talking, Ma!

Mrs. Wolowitz: If you don’t settle down right now, I’m not gonna let you have any more sleepovers.

Howard: For God’s Sake, Ma, I’m 27 years old. And it’s not even a school night…

Before Shulz turned him into a pathetic whiner in the 1960s

He’s many things, mostly all of them good. No way is he a roughneck though…..