Peanuts by Charles Schulz for August 28, 2024

Nah, Charlie Brown you’re too heart of gold to be a gold digger.

Better than digging a hole.

Ah, the Ditch Digger… the lowest job that any parent could dream of to threaten their child with. “You’re gonna grow up to be a ditch digger!” Maybe one of those kids went on to invent the backhoe.

Do you want fries with that?

As Linus said some other time, of all the Charlie Browns, he’s the Charlie Brownest.

You could always plan on going to law school after you graduate, unless your folks won’t have enough money to put you through college.

A ditch in time saves? Nein!

In which case…his life would be a ditch.

Both “You’re In The Army Now,” and “Car Wash” are playing in the background. Both those songs mention digging a ditch.

A long ditch then job security.

Youtube… Bernard Cribbins Hole In The Ground

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As long as you dig your work!

You could set your sights lower and aim for a comic site censor

If it’s a long ditch, you will need a “ditch witch”, or “wife”

I dunno, Charlie, ditch diggers get to operate heavy equipment, even back in the 70’s. I know I did. It was fun, but perhaps not a lifelong career.

Do well in school and you’ll be fine, Charlie!

You gotta bury the bodies somewhere, Chuck.

If Charlie Brown takes a job as a ditch digger he would be vilified for taking a job away from an illegal border crosser and denying them free health care, housing and education.

Time for Linus to ditch the discussion.

A ditch digger would be perfect for construction workers.

Look at the bright side. You might get promoted from ditch digger to hole filler.

The world needs ditch diggers.

You might not ever get rich, but lemme tell you it’s better than digging a ditch.

Chuck had a nightmare last night. He dreamt he was drafted into the military. “♫…You’ll never get rich, from digging a ditch. You’re in the Army ♫.”

Ditch diggers (Laborers) are making a minimum wage of 30 dollars an hour, beat’s McDonalds. Union Carpenters are making close to 50 an hour. UNION, I don’t know what scabs make. Happily retired Union Carpenter, I retired when we were only making 42 dollars an hour.

Just stay out of jail and you should be safe from ditch digging

Being a ditch digger pays better than a lot of other jobs.

Every job has its own dignity and worth, except for telemarketers.

Once it was in his head, he found it difficult too ditch the idea.

Rat racer here. I’m in this strip and I don’t like it!

Another career choice: painting yellow lines down the middle of the road. The job will last a lifetime as the can of paint keeps getting farther and farther away

I enjoyed operating a ditch digger (back hoe and track hoe) did not do it for a living but for special projects it was a lot of fun and more fun when you could get the hang of it and make the motion smooth not jerky.

Most of them are…

You can work at the Car Wash, baby!!

Always weird to see a one-off strip immediately after a very lengthy arc concludes.

I remember when that used to sound bad, having spent years working in corporations large & small I’m not so sure! ;-) Happy Hump Day Folks !

Honorable profession, and it benefits your fellow man.

Then you’re stuck with your career.

If you’re gonna dig, dig in a jewel mine like the 7 Dwarfs

I dug my share of ditches, it gave me a reason to do something else.

Don’t worry, CB. Ditch diggers (aka heavy equipment operators) make way good money! The bigger the ditch, the better!

There is a winery in Paso Robles California that has a wine it calls ditch digger. Apparently when the founder went off to open his winery his father told him he would fail and end up digging ditches.

When I was growing up in the 50s, son of a pair of transplanted Appallachian hillbillies, I was told that there were only 2 choices. Go to college and be a professional, whatever that meant, or spend my life digging ditches. Turned out I’ve done all of the above! worked in warehousing to pay for college, had a career as an applied scientist, hobbies include carpentry – auto mechanics – blacksmithing, and after retirement went back to school in a subject that includes digging trenches! Point is that there are many paths to economic success, and learning “a trade” is just as good as going to college. Follow your interests and skills.

When I saw my first Bobcat tractor, I wanted to be a ditch digger. They still look like fun.

All work is noble. Or so they say.