Peanuts by Charles Schulz for April 23, 2023

Who else knows what a CB radio is?

I still have mine sitting on the floor in my living room, I just haven’t used it in years.

‘Cause we got a little ol’ convoy ,rockin’ through the night.

I was just wondering . . . Where have they got their antennas mounted ?

Ah, the days before texting.

This was published at the peak of the CB radio craze, when nearly everyone in America owned one.

Got one in summer 1976, rarely used it, listened to all the others chattering mostly.

This reminds of the movie “Joy Ride”, about two guys on a road trip, playing a prank on a trucker by using a CB radio. If I remember right, they pretend that they’re a girl named “Candy Cane”, and they lead him on. The trucker turns out to be a psychopathic killer, and pursues the two guys.

When I read Peanuts in my school-days, I assumed that Charlie Brown and the other children were the only ones who were privy to the fact that Snoopy is more than just an ordinary dog – that is to say, I believed that the unseen grown-ups weren’t aware of things such as Snoopy being able to write and play tennis, etc. I eventually came to realize, though, that Snoopy’s human abilities are apparent to everyone in Peanuts, child and adult alike. In today’s strip, for instance – wouldn’t you be surprised, if you were in the neighbour’s shoes – to see a dog operating technical equipment?

C W McCall in early 1976 (which probably inspired this episode in 1976).

Convoys are pretty much a thing of the past.

Now, instead of following each other, and keeping the passing lane open, they’ll constantly try to pass each other at 0.1 of a MPH difference, backing traffic up for miles.

The only convoys you see anymore are typically all part of the same fleet. Independent truckers no longer try to form them.

My parents had a CB radio: Dad was “Nashua Woodman” & Mom was “Ma Tini”. My husband & I got one later; he was “Snow Owl” & I was “Silver Unicorn”.

Breaker, Breaker Good Buddy. Wait, “Good Buddy” means what? Not that there’s anything wrong with that…

We called the ones that constantly talked “Ratchet Mouths”

I’ve apparently forgotten some of the CB lingo. Is “road tar” the term for coffee?

I remember having a CB radio, Channel 19 for the Smokies.

My wife and I used CB sort of like a cell phone. I’d call her on the way home, and she’d tell me to either keep coming or to go pick up the pizza she’d be ordering

Looks like we’ve got ourselves a convoy!

Buddy of mine used to play Fox and Hounds with his CB friends. One of them would drive out some place and start transmitting. The others had to try to track him down, just using signal strength and triangulation.

As Charlie Brown himself asks: why can’t he have a normal dog like everyone else?

Early driver assist. Love the lingo.

Are Snoopy and Woodstock barking and tweeting into the speakers? Because there’s no way they can communicate their thoughts into a speaker.

Side on, bring it in.How many candles are you burnin?

It was the cellphone of its day, more like a redneck telephone, but it was effective and popular briefly, a necessary tool for Truckers, farmers and stranded motorists. Cops still monitor channels 9 and 19 despite the prevalence of newer technology,

My Grandfather and uncle were way into this…

Breaker one-nine, this here’s the Rubber Duck!

C.W. McCall, writer and singer of the song “Convoy”, passed away a little over a year ago at the age of 93.

I had one. But, the car I bought in 2004 didn’t have a good place to mount one. So, it’s been in a storage box for nearly 20 years.

Lousy wildlife keeping everybody up all night with their seventies-era technology….lowering property values…and don’t get me started on that beagle with the World War I vintage aircraft!

Since being a longtime member of NSAI, my handle was “Songdog”

CB radio users had their own language:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CB_slang

Who’s talking, and how?

CBs are still useful. I ue mine on long trips. Getting info from CB’ers ahead of me helps me know how avoid backups.

okay good buddy, catch you on the flip flop

How manyy kids reading this today even know whay a CB is. I imagine they’d be wonding why folks don’t bother using their smartphones if they watch Smokey and the Bandit, Convoy, or The Dukes of Hazzard. And if they do they find the jargon strange (yet look at texting jargon and tell me it’s not equally strange).

Had forgotten they existed. Thank goodness for classics comics.

Breaker, breaker Ratchetjaw!

Never heard of it? That’s cause they banned it…

Ah the mid 70’s.

You got the Snakecharmer here…

Made popular from the Smoke and the Bandit movies with Burt Reynolds

Blast from the past!

I had installed a 2m/70cm ham radio and a CB (installed mag mount antennas on the trunk lid) in my 2003 Toyota Corolla and was driving through the Bristol VA/TN area early one Saturday morning and was mistaken for the highway patrol.

“Flying Ace to Yellow Bird. Come in Yellow Bird.”

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I had one in the middle to late 70s.

How come Charlie Brown’s mommy or daddy didn’t answer the telephone in the middle of the night?

Parents had a set of Motorola Mocat CB radios back in the day… premium radios.

Breaker,Breaker to the Bandit—-Diablo Sandwich and a Dr.pepper

Boy, that’s going back years!