Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for November 25, 2016

what e’en bother?

A grand coup? What, is Charlie Brown supposed to be the neighborhood checkers champion nobody can beat?

Fa warmup for when she holds the football for him to kick.

A ‘grand coup’ is actually a term from bridge, not checkers!

The real Lucy is starting to show up. Just wait until she has a brother.

Quite a vocabulary she’s got, for a little kid. But notice, she was still a toddler a month ago, now she and CB are nearly the same age—and I always thought from later strips that she was a year or two older.

As for her use of an unusual expression here…. She might have overheard the term “grand coup” if her parents played Whist or Bridge, and got a general sense of its value without knowing an exact definition.

What little kid even knows what a coup is?

Maybe her grandparents drive a Coupe de Ville.

Cartoon relativity – some age faster than others.

@Stephen Treadwell : it’s either a 2 foot car or a place to keep chickuns!

Autocorrect: door, not foot.

Vocabulary is directly related to what a child hears in early childhood from parents or his/her significant care-giver.

I found the following quote online.

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“The 1950s were the height of bridge popularity in the US; the joke was probably based on the idea of her having heard the term and assuming it applied to any game at hand.

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Mostly, I wanted to mention that Charles Schulz was a bridge fiend. Recently, About Comics published a collection of his short-lived panel gag strip ’It’s Only a Game’, which is all jokes about sports and games. One out of every three strips is a bridge strip."

There’s no luck in a game like checkers—it’s all skill.

Take over chickens?

Theeeere’s the Lucy we all know and loathe!

Coup de WHAP!