Peanuts by Charles Schulz for December 14, 1970
December 13, 1970
December 15, 1970
Transcript:
Schroeder plays the piano. Lucy leans on the piano and reads a book. She says, "Beethoven was born on December 16, 1770."<BR><BR> Schroeder looks up and says, "That was a good year . . That was the same year that Gainsborough painted 'The Blue Boy.'"<BR><BR> Lucy says, "Maybe we'll have another year like that pretty soon."<BR><BR> Schroeder says, "I hope so . . . We're overdue."<BR><BR>
LadyBlanc over 11 years ago
Ooh, Beethoven’s 200th anniversay!
NougatBrains about 4 years ago
2020 comments here are clichéd now, so I’ll refrain
alien011 over 3 years ago
Again, Beethoven’s real birthday is unknown. He was christened on December 17th, 1770 and because of the high mortality rate of children in these days they were christened pretty soon after their birth, so Beethoven was most likely born in the week before December 17th, 1770.
Daeder about 3 years ago
You mean 1970 wasn’t one of those years?
kcj over 1 year ago
Wikipedia offers some context linking the painting Schroeder mentions and the year when this comic was published: "In September 1970 The Blue Boy was “outed” in the pages of Mad Magazine [etc]" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Boy)
Schroeder keeps dropping clues like this, but Lucy is still not getting it.