Peanuts by Charles Schulz for August 21, 2012

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    Templo S.U.D.  about 12 years ago

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

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    Linux0s  about 12 years ago

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

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    Kali39  about 12 years ago

    They always used that phrase in the strip…

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    Alan Rees  about 12 years ago

    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

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    KR  about 12 years ago

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

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    Steve Duffy  about 12 years ago

    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.

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    germanvisitor  about 12 years ago

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

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    Robert Wilson Premium Member about 12 years ago

    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.

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    Robert Nowall Premium Member about 12 years ago

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

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    skeeterhawk  about 12 years ago

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

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    ComicRelief  about 12 years ago

    The birth of a classic Peanuts-ism!!

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    Plods with ...™  about 12 years ago

    Checkers or wreckers!

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    Darryl Heine  about 12 years ago

    Why “Sdyney or the bush”?

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    The#1BoiseStateFan  about 12 years ago

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

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    The Life I Draw Upon  about 12 years ago

    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.”

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    patricew52 Premium Member about 12 years ago

    Pikes Peak or Bust!

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    orinoco womble  about 12 years ago

    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.

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    JR6019  about 12 years ago

    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.)

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    Number Three  about 12 years ago

    LOL LOL.

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

    xxx

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    lafayetteann  about 12 years ago

    Linus is going to the bush leagues.

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    Rakkav  about 12 years ago

    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.

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    dils santos  about 12 years ago

    great

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    m.l.  about 12 years ago
    In “A Boy Named Charlie Brown” this quote was used the the Spelling Bee part.
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    revron  about 12 years ago

    “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

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    iced tea  about 12 years ago

    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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    Number Three  about 12 years ago

    @Snoopy_Fan

    Glad you liked my comment yesterday. Did you also see my comment from August 16th? I always miss you when are off GoComics for a day or two.

    Have you always had the Dancing Snoopy avatar on since you joined GoComics? It’s amazing how people can keep the same avatar for ages.

    I MUST change mine every so often.

    I hope you have a wonderful Wednesday!

    xxx

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    cameron.hall  about 12 years ago

    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.

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