Peanuts by Charles Schulz for September 26, 2022

yeah?

“When I was younger so much younger than today, I never needed anybody’s help in any way” (The Beatles)

Spike needs a girl in a red truck to help him get back home.

MY BOY IS BACK SHOCKINGLY FAST, likely because they either cut some strips (as these reprints seem to just reprint what’s timeless , could be wrong), or Schultz realized what he had and brought him back asap. Why he didn’t with Snoopy’s gangly teenage nephew, I don’t know, but this was one of the best calls of a man who made very good ones.

Spike is still fat, the walk would do him good!

He’s lost in his hometown.

Those who say things like this are usually the same ones who say “Call if you need anything, I’m always around” and if you do, all you get is a handful of excuses. Usually pretty poor ones.

Wow what luck someone at the side of the road selling needles. I need to sew a button on. Hey pal what do want for needles?

Ah the memories. Back when this strip was first published, (1975), hitchhiking was fairly safe way to travel. Did it myself more times than I want to admit to.

Needles, Arizona, named for a distinctive group of rock pinnacles.

I forgot he was still around. I gotta lay off the drugs. No, wait; maybe I gotta lay on the drugs!

Spike is soooo cute!!!

Hopefully, he won’t run into some chick in a red truck.

ride ride ride – hitching a ride – gotta get me home

and here I thought he was – leaving on a jet plane

he needs a horse with no name

Wow that Uber still not there yet?

Cute

I hope Spike comes back. As someone who doesn’t get to see my own brother very often, I really felt sad that they hardly saw each other during their visit.

He’ll be picked up by a cattle truck

I’ll never forget trying to get from LA to Phoenix by hitchhiking. Took 3 days.

I saw “SNL” Saturday night. It was the February 13, 1999 episode shortened to an hour, but it still had the hilarious “You’re A Champion, Charlie Brown” sketch. Very bloody but quite funny.

A scrawny, emaciated beagle has a better chance of being picked up than one that looks well fed.

It would have to be a VERY high-paying job to get me to move to Needles. That town is HOT!!! Yeah, it’s a dry heat…but it’s still way too HOT!!!

Trailer’s for sale or rent

Rooms to let, 50 cents

No phone, no pool, no pets

I ain’t got no cigarettes

Ah, but, two hours of pushin’ broom

Buys an eight by twelve four-bit room

I’m a man of means by no means

King of the road

Third boxcar, midnight train

Destination Bangor, Maine

Old, worn out suit and shoes

I don’t pay no union dues

I smoke old stogies I have found

Short, but not too big around

I’m a man of means by no means

King of the road

I know every engineer on every train

All of their children, and all of their names

And every handout in every town

Every lock that ain’t locked, when no one’s around

I sing, trailers for sale or rent

Rooms to let, 50 cents

No phone, no pool, no pets

I ain’t got no cigarettes

Ah, but, two hours of pushin’ broom

Buys an eight by twelve four-bit room

I’m a man of means by no means

King of the road

Trailers for sale or rent

Rooms to let, 50 cents

No phone, no pool, no pets

I ain’t got no cigarettes

Ah, but, two hours of pushin’ broom buys…

In the last panel, Spike has what looks an awful lot like a thumb, but in another storyline, Snoopy was disqualified from the World Wrist Wrestling Championships because he didn’t have any thumbs

Godspeed, Spike.