Peanuts by Charles Schulz for August 12, 2012

Into downtown

I don’t recall the whole story, but that was the actual phone number of a guy Charles Shultz knew and he put it in as a prank.The guy was getting weird calls all day that Sunday.

Touché croquet.

I’m at a payphone trying to call you…All of the balls I have hit at you…

this seems a little worse than the recurring football gag

Lucy hit that croquet ball like Josh Hamilton!

Back in the days before all the phones in media-land started with 555.

What’s that funny looking box Charlie Brown is standing in?

The last 4 numbers was not shown in the Chicago Tribune showing of this 1965 Peanuts Sunday comic strip.

If this was today’s world, Charlie Brown would have had a cell phone with text so that Lucy could text message/tweet Charlie Brown his croquet turn was next.

I suppose if CS were alive and drew the comic today, CB would have pulled out his cell phone. IF he thought kids that young should have them that is.

I suppose now that all kids have their own cell, no one wears a pager anymore?

Kids playing outside. A girl wearing a dress. Croquet. A phone booth. No smart phones. Not using “555” out of fear of identity theft. Wow. There used to be intelligent life here.

Charlie Brown found the TARDIS!

Why is Clark Kent standing outside the phone booth?

(cue all the diehard Peanuts fanatics calling 343-2794 and annoying everybody with that number à la 867-5309)

If you live in a 343 calling area, you could call and say “its your turn”

Awwwww. Poor Charlie Brown.

GRRRRRR. Lucy makes me mad.

LOL xxx

Funny how we still say “dial” and “hang up”.

You’re right, of course. I had to go back and check. Sorry about that!

That’s called a phone booth, kids.

I heard Croquet is an Irish Protestants game. Anyway, Lucy isn’t playing fair at all. Those balls can hit someone and hurt them.

Are you sure it’s the same area code?

I thought only drug deallers & people calling in terriost threats used public phones

LOL