Peanuts by Charles Schulz for August 21, 2012

Like Paul Hogan, Hugh Jackman, Bindi Irwin or Jason Chatfield for example?

The phrase is similar to “California or bust” meaning do or die.

They always used that phrase in the strip…

Two possible sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_bush#Related_terms (second paragraph of this section) or http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/murray-les/sydney-and-the-bush-0560078

All the convicts: in the bush. All the others: in Sydney. Although today’s Sidneysiders may often prefer the bush…

Yeah, Sydney or the Bush is very definitely an Australian phrase. The bright big lights or nothing. I’m really surprised (and quite pleased) to find it here in a Peanuts strip.

I guess at that time Schultz didn’t think that people from non English speaking countries would read this…

The readers at the time this strip originally ran in newspapers had not Google to quickly look up the allusion. Maybe they had a helpful local librarian if they were lucky.

Remember the phrase, guys. If they run the comics in sequence, it comes up again in a couple of months.

From what I’ve read on Australian lingo, I’m surprised it isn’t “Sidney or the GAFA.” Or shouldn’t I say that?

The birth of a classic Peanuts-ism!!

Checkers or wreckers!

Why “Sdyney or the bush”?

It’s mostly what briatollah said, but I’m guessing it’s not 60’s.

Maybe they had a roo in their attic and needed to let it out..I took it as the Aussie version of “California or Bust.”

Pikes Peak or Bust!

I remember posters in the late 60s, early 70s with Peanuts characters yelling “Sydney or the Bush” and of course Snoopy surfing and yelling “Cowabunga!” This strip and the others with Sydney or the Bush references made it a catchphrase among kids.

I’ve never heard this expression outside of ‘’Peanuts’. Maybe now people will know what I mean when I say it, and I do say it (well, think it, because nobody in Michigan knows what I mean when I say it. Learned that long ago.)

LOL LOL.

That cap looks too big for Charlie Brown in the last panel.

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Linus is going to the bush leagues.

I’m glad he was willing to respond to such inquiries. If I’m not mistaken, we’re going to see this more in the next few days, just as the whole ball team was gritting their teeth a while back.

great

“Sydney or the bush” More than half of our population live on the eastern coast of which sydney is the major city. The rest live in the bush. Welcome to Australia and no, there are no kangaroos in Sydney wandering the streets although in brisbane, further north, you could spot one or two

It means: “It’s now or never.” I remember reading this strip as a little girl. I heard some baseball umpires say: “C’mon. Let’s kick some butt!”

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It’s kind of like “California or bust” – do or die, go for broke. In Australia, Sydney represents the big city, and the bush is the lonely, dull, isolated outback. No in between, one way or the other, etc.