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Peanuts by Charles Schulz for August 11, 1960
August 10, 1960
August 12, 1960
Transcript:
Linus and Charlie Brown are standing on the pitcher's mound in full baseball gear. Linus says, "You'd better pitch this next guy something pretty tricky, Charlie Brown..."<BR><BR> Linus walks up to Charlie Brown on the mound and says, "I'd like to see you throw him an 'expectorate ball' but I guess you can't..."<BR><BR> Charlie Brown watches Linus walk down the mound. Linus says, "They've banned the 'expectorate ball' so there's no sense in even talking about it!"<BR><BR> Charlie Brown looks at the reader and says, "If you stand on a pitcher's mound long enough, you meet a lot of strange people!"<BR><BR>
gamer2k4 over 11 years ago
A spit ball, eh?
ootey over 6 years ago
Ladies and gentlemen, meet Charlie Brown.
| over 4 years ago
expectorate – cough or spit out (phlegm) from the throat or lungs
yow4zip Premium Member over 4 years ago
You can spit on the ground but not on the ball.
JimDerry almost 4 years ago
Was “spit” an obscene word in 1960? Or is this Linus just being Linus?
kcj almost 2 years ago
But they didn’t ban “the excrement ball”, did they?