Peanuts by Charles Schulz for December 20, 2023

Looks like stupidity runs in that family.

There’s something to be said for being a blockhead.  If it falls off, it won’t roll away.

Ancient proverb: A true friend will hold onto your head for you while you read.

Apparently the reason so many girls in novels from the late 19th and early 20th century got TB or collapsed with unidentified fevers that laid them up for weeks was, they read too much. It was a belief in those days that females were too physically and mentally “weak” to engage in serious study.

PP replies, Marcie, you’re weird.

One book is not too many, Patty!

I’m only 16 and I’ve already read 120+ books, I must be lucky!

Of course, like all else in life, it boils down to likes and dislikes, PP is a focused baseball player and not a a perusual of tomes, as are many people in our world of reality. Perhaps when she reaches some 30 odd years of age she will blossom into a reader, then again, maybe she will become an opera star and retain a bookless life, living off data, facts, etc from the internet as countless millions of others do in our society.

When all else fails, read the directions!

But, then, they WOULD have to read what they see ON the Intranet!!

In Jurassic Park, the computer nerd said. "Hold on to your Bu……

Ah, Marcie…let it go and see if it does fall off…

No wonder she doesn’t do well in school.

We demanded few things from our sons. One of them was to learn how to read. We read a lot to our older son and he was reading by the time he got to pre-school. He read to his younger brother who, being competitive as he was, was determined to out-read his older sibling . We told them that no matter what it is you like to do, there is a book written about it.

This was in the pre-YouTube era.

I feel like all these kids would have neck problems with their bobble-heads.

Looks like Peppermint Patty inherited a little something from her grandaddy and it wasn’t his alleged good looks.

I’ve found that if you make a book forbidden fruit (banned lists) or make it sound dangerous to read, you won’t be able to keep it on the shelves.

If you want a truly dangerous book, try the Bible.

Atta girl Marcie, that’s what friends are for!

I thought the saying was “if you open your mind too much, your brain will fall off”

My grandfather was the one who taught me the importance of reading, which has stayed with me to this day!

Her math is weak, too, if she is worried about one book being “too many” ; )

PP – it’s great to have a friend like Marcie – they let you keep your delusions without trying to change you, yet will do their best to quiet your fears about your delusions.

What a good friend Marcie is.

I’ve never heard of the head falling off with too much reading. Exploding, maybe; falling off, no.

Her grandfather most likely could only read at a sixth grade level and felt that book knowledge was for sissies. He should of run for president.

Grampa’s obviously a far right winger (a republican, that is).

When the brain swells up to gigantic proportions, our puny necks can’t hold it

I’ll take my chances.

Good girl, Marcie. That’s what friends are for. “Heads Up Support”

Sounds like a fun grandfather.

If you like the book, you can read a 900 pages in a week. If you hate the book, it’ll take a month to read 90 pages.

Indeed … quite a helpful gesture from Marcie here.

I still wonder, though, why she always calls Pep. Patty “Sir” all the time. One of her, uh, unique qualities, I guess.