Peanuts by Charles Schulz for October 02, 2018

Snoopy is probably going to imagine himself as the world-famous “ha-ha, Herman” player.

Hide and Seek at its best…Oops, did I give that away? My bad :)

PS: I had to Google the name to find that out.

Boy, I wish I could play “Ha Ha, Herman.”

‘Ha Ha Herman’? Why not some ‘Hungry Hungry Hippos’?

Never heard of it.

Ha Ha Herman?

It’s a trap Chuck, Run !

, “[In] Ha Ha Herman … one person runs off and hides. Then the people who are looking yell ‘Haha’ and the person hiding has to say ‘Herman.’ Then everyone goes to find them. If you find them you hide with them, and eventually only one person is left looking.”

From an interview with Charles Schulz: “I suppose if you look back, your life goes in different sections,” Charles Schulz recalled. “My most influential section of life as a child was living within about three blocks of the barbershop [that his father owned], down around the corner on a quiet street. … [W]e used to play cops and robbers, and cowboys … and run around the neighborhood … [I]f everyone left us alone, we did have fun.”

https://schulzmuseum.org/explore/press-room/games-children-play/

By the next year there was a paperback called “HA, HA HERMAN, CHARLIE BROWN.” It was part of the original series of book collections, but I had missed this storyline in the papers and had no idea why the book had such a weird title.

In time it seemed to be forgotten, overlooked or ignored that Peppermint Patty lived across town and not in the same neighborhood. She might never have met Charlie Brown if he hadn’t met her neighbor Roy at camp.

Walk across town? In most places, the parents would be arrested for child neglect and endangerment if he did that today.

That Herman guy is one funny dude.

Nowdays parents would be arrested for letting their kid walk across town. When I was young we rode our bicycles everywhere and mom never worried unless we were late for supper.

Little did Charles Schultz know that many years later his cute name for a game would be searched for many times on a thing called, “Internet” using a thing called, “Google”.

Big day in Peanuts history today. According to “Today in History,” the strip was first syndicated on this day in 1950, appearing in seven newspapers!

Snoopy, you dog!…

Never heard of that game.

All of us kids had a bike and a dog and they both went everywhere with us.