Dog Eat Doug by Brian Anderson for July 28, 2018

Just call him Linus.

That does happen.

I feel that way about pacifiers.

You should only give up the battle as long as you don’t give up the war. It’s a generality, not a blanket statement.

Oh c’mon, Doug, you gave up too easily…that never worked on Linus Van Pelt, after all.

My niece Stacie is 35 now. When she was little she had ‘blankie’. My sister-in-law thought she’d given it up years earlier but found a small piece of ‘blankie’ when Stacie was in high school that she had kept hidden all those years.

When I was 6, I was given a stuffed Pac-Man toy as a “going in the hospital” present right before my right foot was amputated. They told me I could bring Pac-Man into the operating room with me, so I did. And brought him with me for every subsequent surgery, up to and including reconstructive knee surgery when I was 23.

I have now had Pac-Man for nearly 40 years and to this day, he still has a place of honor on a shelf in my bedroom.

Snoopy should take notes.

Do you think Linus Van Pelt would care?