Peanuts by Charles Schulz for October 01, 1961
September 30, 1961
October 02, 1961
Transcript:
Linus sits on the floor, holding his blanket and sucking his thumb. Lucy reads from a book, "'When she saw the little house in the woods, she wondered who lived there so she knocked at the door, no one answered so she knocked again.'"<BR><BR> Lucy asks, "What do you think will happen?" Linus answers, "I can't imagine."<BR><BR> Lucy continues, "' . . . Still no one answered, so Goldilocks opened the door and walked in. There before her, in the little room, she saw a table set for three . . .'"<BR><BR> Lucy reads, "'There was a great big bowl of porridge, a middle sized bowl of porridge, and a little, wee bowl of porridge. She tasted the great big bowl of porridge . . .'"<BR><BR> Lucy continues, "'"Oh this is too hot!" she said. Then she tasted the middlie sized bowl of porridge. "Oh, this is too cold." Then she tasted the little, wee bowl. "Oh this is just right." she said, and she ate it all up.'" Linus says, "I have a question."<BR><BR> Lucy says, "About what?" Linus replies, "Well, it's in regard to cooling . . . It would seem to me that if the middle sized bowl was cold, the little, wee bowl would be cold too, rather than 'just right', and . . ."<BR><BR> Lucy punches Linus.<BR><BR> Linus lies on the floor in a daze.<BR><BR> Linus holds his blanket and sucks his thumb and says, "I never even brought up the far more obvious point of unlawful entry!"<BR><BR>
I had a physics professor who told us that she used to read “Goldilocks” to her three-year-old daughter. In describing the whole temperature of the porridge bit, the professor would add, “…which defies the laws of thermodynamics.” One day, the little girl’s father was reading her the story. Coming to the same spot, he went right through without comment. The girl exclaimed, “Daddy! That’s not how Mommy reads it!”