Peanuts by Charles Schulz for January 23, 2025

Charlie Brown could never hate you, Sally.

Why didn’t she just ask her parents for a ruler, saying that she needed it for a project at school?

Now I have that song from Gilligan’s Island running through head. From the episode where they set Hamlet to music. ‘Neither a borrower nor a lender be. Do not forget, stay out of debt. Think twice and take this good advice from me. Avoid insolvency. There’s just one other thing you ought to do. To thine own self be true."

When did Charlie Brown study Shakespeare? I had to memorize that soliloquy in high school. I taught it to my teen-age daughters when they had to go get their clothes from the friends who had borrowed them. Also used it to impress on them the value of truth and self-worth. “To this above all, to thine own elf be true.” My one living daughter is 70 years old and still brings that up once in a while. I loved that Shakespeare’s tragedies taught us a lot about human nature.

A line from Act 1 Scene 3 of Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet (WWW so it must be true).

Meaning: If you avoid lending or borrowing money you are more likely to keep your friends.

“You know I’ll beg, steal or borrow To give you sunny days” (The New Seekers)

Charlie hates himself, so he probably does hate Sally. What good is “you shouldn’t have s” after it’s a fait accompli? Looks like CB doesn’t want to either confront the angry boy or replace the ruler for his sister.

We hate ALL thieves. Replace his ruler.

He doesn’t hate you, Sally. He’s just perplexed by your shortsighted attitude.

Take responsibility for your action for once!

Sally’s reluctance to replace that kid’s ruler reminds me of a couple of life lessons I put off as long as I could even though they were good for me.

“I didn’t borrow your ruler, it isn’t broken, and it was already broken when I borrowed it.”

Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,

Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,

Whiles, like a puffed and reckless libertine,

Himself the primrose path of alliance treads,

And recks not his own rede.

I’m sure that’s what Sally would have said if she’d thought of it, but “You hate me, don’t you?” works…

You’re asking Sally to think, Charlie Brown?

“Yeah…………… Oh! I mean… No, we’re family and stuff…” :/

Frank tried that line on Margaret Houlihan. It didn’t go well for him.

Just buy him a ruler

Yeah. She should’ve borrowed your’s, big bother!

How much did a basic 12" ruler cost back then? A dollar or less probably. Use your allowance money you have hidden under your mattress to buy the poor kid another one Sally

He was wrong……

Lots of times people who borrow things don’t return them