Peanuts by Charles Schulz for April 08, 1979
April 07, 1979
April 09, 1979
Transcript:
Peppermint Patty stands smiling to her right; she says,"My history theme." "I've been waiting all week to get it back."<BR><BR> She holds a sheet of paper in her hand and looks off to her left; she says,"I wonder what she gave me...I'm afraid to look..."<BR><BR> She looks at the paper and her face falls. She exclaims,"D Minus?!" She angrily balls the paper up.<BR><BR> She kicks the paper and exclaims,"I worked like a dog, and all I got was a D minus!"<BR><BR> She kicks the paper again and continues,"It's not fair!" She kicks it some more and continues,"D Minus!"<BR><BR> She kicks the paper into a waste-basket. She exclaims,"It's not fair!" She looks at the paper in the waste-basket and concludes,"It's just not fair!"<BR><BR> She walks away glowering. The paper sits in the waste-basket and says,"Why take it out on me? I'm only a piece of paper."<BR><BR>
It is TOO fair, Patty—if you really had no desire to get a bad grade, you should have worked even HARDER. So this strip is actually from the spring of 1979-at least I finally found it. I have the Peanuts book,“Here comes the April Fool,” which contains most of the strips from 1979, and a few from early 1980, and this one is in the latter part of the book, in with the ones from the fall of 1979, so I thought it would have been published then; then, when I didn’t find it in either Sep, Oct, or Nov, of 1979, I figured it may have been from the spring, and I was right.