Peanuts by Charles Schulz for December 18, 2023

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    knutdl  12 months ago

    Read a comic book.

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    carlsonbob  12 months ago

    Dick and Jane

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    PhantomStrngrr  12 months ago

    People often spend more time and effort trying to get out of doing something than it would take to actually do what they’re trying to get out of.

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    Argythree  12 months ago

    Sports Illustrated sells one called ‘My First Book of Baseball’ for kids; that might interest Patty…

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    californiamonty  12 months ago

    Peppermint Patty should consider Chuck’s Plan B there.

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    Donald Benson Premium Member 12 months ago

    Way back, Charlie Brown was assigned “Gulliver’s Travels” on vacation. When griping to Violet (or old Patty?), she annoyed him by saying she already finished it in study hall. He spent the break playing and watching TV, all the time fretting how he really should be getting it done. In the end he pulled an all-nighter, bleary-eyed at the bus stop in the morning. Another bit of Peppermint Patty channeling one of Charlie Brown’s problems. She also picked up his habit of unrequited love (for CB himself), albeit more disastrously proactive.

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    therese_callahan2002  12 months ago

    Trust me, I’d have tried to get out of it too, if it were done at my grade school and high school. Thankfully, it wasn’t.

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    cdillon85  12 months ago

    Just read the bleeding book. Blimey!

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    Indiana Guy  12 months ago

    Read “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry. Nice and short, with a twist of cosmic irony. And it’s appropriate for the season.

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    dlkrueger33  12 months ago

    Ask the librarian for stories about baseball players. I’ll bet you’d enjoy one of those. Or, if you really can’t deal with it, read the synopsis on the book jacket.

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    Lucky Bear  12 months ago

    Hopeless – is she literate at all? (We bears have only oral tradition but we always do enjoy a good story.)

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    Can't Sleep  12 months ago

    Pick a book you’ve already read.

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    VegaAlopex  12 months ago

    Patty should be glad she doesn’t have the internet yet to distract her. It should make finding a book easier. Surely the teacher has some suggestions.

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    Ellis97  12 months ago

    Charlie Brown read War and Peace by himself once.

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    gantech  12 months ago

    Good move on P.P.’s part. She is talking to the Master Procrastinator.

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    Captain Bars  12 months ago

    Click! “Hello? Hello, Chuck. Are you still there?”

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    jagedlo  12 months ago

    Looking for the legal loophole, PP?

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    Danae Premium Member 12 months ago

    Ask Calvin

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    Gen.Flashman  12 months ago

    I believe Charlie is suppose to be in second grade. Average reading vocabulary should be about 500 words.

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    ladykat  12 months ago

    Read a book, Patty; it won’t kill you.

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    Neo Stryder  12 months ago

    “Monday Starts on Saturday” by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

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    e.groves  12 months ago

    My Algebra teacher assigned us 100 problems to do during Christmas break. I never liked him after that.

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    dflak  12 months ago

    I call this the “Beetle Bailey syndrome:” spending more time and effort to avoid work than it would take to actually do the work.

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    F-Flash  12 months ago

    How about dog training 101.

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    Decepticomic  12 months ago

    Hysterical blindness?

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    preacherman Premium Member 12 months ago

    War and Peace, DVD, Hollywood version. Call of the Wild, DVD, Hollywood version.

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    Jimvideo  12 months ago

    I never knew at the time that this was the reaction of kids with dyslexia.

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    guenette.charlie(BozoKnows)  12 months ago

    How about “Ball Four” by Jim Bouton?

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    SusieB  12 months ago

    OMG Patty! Just get a short book and read it! It’s not as if you were assigned math homework; I’d have sympathy for you then

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    Just-me  12 months ago

    Come on Peppermint Patty, just read the book, it won’t hurt much and you might perchance enjoy it.

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    Bruce1253  12 months ago

    I had a book assignment and then an essay over Christmas break one year. There used to be a comic “Classics Illustrated” I think? Anyway, that is how I did my essay, was from that comic. Got a B on the report.

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    dcdete.  12 months ago

    Is this the same girl who about 6 months ago graduated with a diploma from the Dog Obedience School? She seems to be rather disobedient to her teacher – even though she doesn’t need a teacher anymore since she has already graduated.

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    Count Olaf Premium Member 12 months ago

    Reminds The Count of the times when as a young whippersnapper, The Count’s father would take him to the magazine store and news stand on The Pike, directly across from the police station, where The Count could pick out a Classics Illustrated comic book for just such occasions while Dad went into the curtained off back room to make investments in his retirement plan with the bookies who worked there. The pinball machine paid off, too, and there were punch cards under the counter. Tru dat. Tis’ the Season to Be Nostalgic.

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    Robert Nowall Premium Member 12 months ago

    Philosophically, I’ve come to realize that, though I like to read, I still hate (or dislike—-hate might be too strong a word) every work of literature I had to read for school. Several of them, I liked other work the writer had done, but not the one that was a school assignment.

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    uniquename  12 months ago

    I loved when teachers assigned reading. What I hated was when they made us write about it. Writing longhand has always been a slow, difficult process for me. Thank goodness for typing.

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    Angry Indeed Premium Member 12 months ago

    Ignorance, thy names is Peppermint Patty!

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    drds2  12 months ago

    “Be The Pack Leader” by Cesar Millan would be a good choice. Might put all that dog obedience training to good use!

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    delennwen  12 months ago

    It’s funny, over on Peanuts Begins today, Charlie is four and just starting to read words like “cat” and “rat”.

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    Timothy Madigan Premium Member 12 months ago

    Read a book you’ve already read. I did that when i switched schools/states in HS – redid “The Three Musketeers” for the easy grade.

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    KEA  12 months ago

    too many students too much of the time

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    jarvisloop  12 months ago

    I taught literature and composition for thirty years. Once, I assigned a small novel over spring break. Afterward, I regretted it because I realized that the kids deserve to spend vacation as they please. I apologized to those kids and never did it again during my career.

    By the way, I also greatly reduced the amount of homework that I assigned. After all, kids do have lives out of the classroom.

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    Jim.538  12 months ago

    Just read the shortest book you can find.

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    charles9156  12 months ago

    write a book!

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    ArcticFox Premium Member 12 months ago

    Just ‘book’ a flight to North Korea.

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    John Jorgensen  12 months ago

    If the teacher just said “a book,” and left it wide open like that, Pep should have no trouble finding very short books that can be knocked out in a single setting.

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    Midnightrain109  12 months ago

    This goes to show that a lot of students hate required reading in school. And also why those children hate reading when they grow up to be adults

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    C wolfe  12 months ago

    I would ask Santa for books, “Tom Swift, Jr.” and the “Hardy Boys”.

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    Sandra V.  12 months ago

    LOL :)

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    I❤️Peanuts  12 months ago

    Back in 1962 I was a freshman in college and after Christmas break there was another week of classes and then final exams. During the break I read Dostoevsky”s “Crime and Punishment.” I also listened to my LP soundtrack album of “Ben-Hur” a lot, and in my mind I came to associate the novel and the music. A pretty strange connection to be sure.

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    eddi-TBH  12 months ago

    Maybe have your dad read the book to you.

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