Peanuts by Charles Schulz for January 28, 2024

Ones can be tricky they can be I’s or lower case l’s. Nines can sneak up and pretend to be a six.

And a 4 upside down pretends to be a chair.

Of course, the one without any limit at all, is an 8 on its side.

If 6 turned out to be 9, I don’t mind.

Sounds like Sally has Ordinal Linguistic Personification Synesthesia.

“You are No. 6.”

“Who is No. 1?”

“That would be telling!”

And be afraid of 7.

And sevens! Those sneaky so-and-sos, pretending to be L’s, or worse, part of squares. Those aren’t even letters OR numbers!

Funny comic

6s stand on their heads and pretend to be 9s.

Lets not even start with the letter O and number 0.

And what about the nines that pretend that they’re sixes, and the zeros that make you think that they’re O’s.

I even love the title page.

“Sally. Sally. Sitting up on a three.”

“She’s acting cleverer than U and M EEE.”

She’s just written 666 twice. The mark of the beast.

In Canasta Red Threes are valuable but Black Threes are useful only as discards.

I feel the same way about 1s. It can be a 1, it can be a dash, it can be an underline. . . .at least the way most write it. Rarely do I ever see it drawn with the side hat and base.

Nikola Tesla loved 3s.

3 is a magic number

When I was learning those symbols, I gave them personalities. I still see faces on all numbers and letters. Note: 2 is the only number that faces to the right, but — unlike 6 — is looking behind it. I usually draw 2’s as mad to the world so they don’t look like Z’s.

And this is why sorting out W’s at an M&M factory is such a hard job. Some might be E’s or 3’s as well.

We take a break from the “Linus on the roof” arc to bring you fun with numbers…

They can be birds too.

She wrote two 666’s on the last panel.

And 6’s like to be 9’s.

You’ll love the Russian Alphabet, Sal. Where “3” is a letter. Comes right before the backwards “N”

Why does a number 6 look like a nose? And how can you tell there’s N’s in the M’s?

What I find interesting is that while we have dozens of different alphabets in the world, almost everyone uses those squiggles we call Arabic Numbers. They were most likely invented in India and propagated by Arab traders during the European siesta called the Dark Ages.

On their side, I though the "3"s looked like birds more than "M"s or "N"s.

Numbers … You can’t trust any of them.

What about sevens? They eat the number nine.

Turn those threes again and you get M-birds. :)

You just can’t trust numbers, can you, Sally?

so it is true that you can manipulate numbers to mean whatever you want visually. also true that one can just stress a few of them over a few of the others, put them in a certain order, and conveniently leave out a couple and you have the “state of the union” and the “economic growth” governmental figures. Or even the “end of year” company report, “scientific” trends, and of course the IRS income tax percentages that will soon be haunting everyone. All definitely, numbers we have to deal with that aren’t as fun as yours Sally, but numbers are used that way whenever certain people try to convince other people of how good a “job” they’re doing. Or not doing.

Now if a 6 turned out to be 9 I don’t mind, I don’t mind, (well alright)

Sally really sees the world differently, doesn’t she?

$41Iy makes a good point.

Peanuts has been brought to you today by the numbers 3 and 6.

It’s really interesting how our language works. Schulz really was a comic genius huh

Or 9’s

She must crunch the numbers to save humanity!

When I was in 1st and 2nd grade, there was an eye chart like that. Instead of identifying the letters, we identified which way the “E” was facing.

Clever Arabs…

I don’t think threes are not trusted. FIVE’S are not trusted!

So, there had been 66 comments before mine here, so that showed two noses, instead of one!! If this be 67, then what is beside the nose??

8 is the worst. It lies on its back and just goes on forever.

Sally is losing it over the number3

Wait’ll she gets interested in pig latin

My 6s pretend to be Gs

Number 3s can be for birds, clouds