Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for August 16, 2016

So is listening to a Negative Norman ramble on and on because he doesn’t know when to shut up, Charlie Brown. This is why you ended up being so unpopular with the others — you have a way of sucking the fun out of everything!

For once, Violet is doing the right thing.

I remember back in those days having more than one little illustrated book about the Three Little Kittens who lost their mittens. That old tale seems to have vanished. It took only 35 years to lose so much of childhood’s oral culture—ring games, rhymes, stories. The only things that survive are clapping games, it seems. It’s been so long since I’ve seen little girls jumping rope and reciting the rhymes that go with it. I feel old.

Why don’t you just say that cutting off their tails with a carving knife is a form of animal abuse, CB?

On a strangely related note, Gocomics viewers would like to point out to Target that if people do not respond to their ad the first forty-seven times, they are unlikely to be motivated by the same ad the 48th time.

Good grief!!

Says the person who, in later strips, would have an anthropomorphic dog

If you use the Firefox browser, get Adblock Plus. It works on the jerky little .gif avatars, too.

Way to put a damper on things, CB…

Business relies on adds, You don’t have to read them.

See if she makes you anymore mud pies after that rant, Charlie Brown.