My father was nearly deaf and used an early kind of hearing aid that only worked in one ear. So I grew up “loud” talking since that was how my family functioned. Only a rare few souls were engaged enough to ask me to lower my voice out in public, so I never really understood it could be annoying to other people. In class I got good marks “for speaking clearly.” It wasn’t until I got my first job in a an office right out of school, and a new coworker finally asked in exasperation why I always talked so loud? I was mortified of course, and worked hard to modify my tone and volume. I feel Charlotte.
Templo S.U.D. over 1 year ago
Loud talkers like the late Rush Hudson Limbaugh III (1951-2021)?
mccollunsky over 1 year ago
Don’t worry, Charlie Brown, there’s only two more strips to go with her, and you’ll only see her one more time.
bigcatbusiness over 1 year ago
She and my dad would get along just fine.
cubswin2016 over 1 year ago
I think that Charlie has answered her question.
iggyman over 1 year ago
I think you drowned him out!
dlkrueger33 over 1 year ago
Many loud talkers are merely hard of hearing.
Guy from southern Indiana over 1 year ago
Then Jerry Seinfeld had the problem with the soft talker.
Display_Name_Is_Taken over 1 year ago
Didn’t Charlotte have brown hair before?
bookworm0812 over 1 year ago
There’s a character in the mystery series I read that talks loud like that too.
prairiedogdance Premium Member over 1 year ago
My father was nearly deaf and used an early kind of hearing aid that only worked in one ear. So I grew up “loud” talking since that was how my family functioned. Only a rare few souls were engaged enough to ask me to lower my voice out in public, so I never really understood it could be annoying to other people. In class I got good marks “for speaking clearly.” It wasn’t until I got my first job in a an office right out of school, and a new coworker finally asked in exasperation why I always talked so loud? I was mortified of course, and worked hard to modify my tone and volume. I feel Charlotte.
allangary over 1 year ago
Another skipped Sunday strip (January 16, 1955):
https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1955/01/16
guenette.charlie(BozoKnows) over 1 year ago
Over sixty years later, Charlotte Braun could get a job as a sports talk “THE ONE WHO SCREAMS THE LOUDEST IS RIGHT!!!” panelist.
Just-me over 1 year ago
It is one thing to be loud when the situation calls for it, but to be loud for the sake of being loud is contemptible.
uniquename over 1 year ago
Charlotte Brown has a future career in Dale Carnegie.
gantech over 1 year ago
He can’t answer…you’ve decalcified his entire spinal column.
EMGULS79 over 1 year ago
OH NO NOT HER AGAIN!!!! :)
hooglah over 1 year ago
Check her hearing.
Wichita1.0 over 1 year ago
See, they say some whales stun their victims with sound, soooo…
EnlilEnkiEa over 1 year ago
He’s broken.
EnlilEnkiEa over 1 year ago
It’s like listening to young woke kids.
thepinkbaroness over 1 year ago
Charlotte Braun is around? Darn, I missed it when they introduced her.
ChattyFran over 1 year ago
Wonder if this is where the Seinfeld routines of loud and close talkers came from.
Impact55 over 1 year ago
Imagine that! Charlie Brown grew up with Marjorie Taylor Spleen!
David Rickard Premium Member over 1 year ago
Mother of _Dilbert_’s Loud Larry?
raybarb44 over 1 year ago
But people that you don’t even know you 10 miles away are most definitely answering your question…..
knight1192a over 1 year ago
He’s trying to recover from having both eardrums burst at the same time.