Peanuts by Charles Schulz for April 23, 2023

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    Asharah  over 1 year ago

    Who else knows what a CB radio is?

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    Botulism Bob  over 1 year ago

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

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    mccollunsky  over 1 year ago

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

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    KA7DRE Premium Member over 1 year ago

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

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    markkahler52  over 1 year ago

    Ah, the days before texting.

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    therese_callahan2002  over 1 year ago

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

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    Blu Bunny  over 1 year ago

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

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    Hoosier Guy  over 1 year ago

    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.

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    Hazelnut King  over 1 year ago

    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?

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    VegaAlopex  over 1 year ago

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

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    johndifool  over 1 year ago

    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.

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    Wren Fahel  over 1 year ago

    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”.

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    Count Olaf Premium Member over 1 year ago

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

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    upanddown17  over 1 year ago
    Back in the ’70’s, my handle was "The Nifty 50’.
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    ottowald  over 1 year ago

    We called the ones that constantly talked “Ratchet Mouths”

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    Pocosdad  over 1 year ago

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

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    Forest Dweller 54  over 1 year ago

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

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    dflak  over 1 year ago

    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

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    Gandalf  over 1 year ago

    Looks like we’ve got ourselves a convoy!

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    gantech  over 1 year ago

    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.

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 1 year ago

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

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    akachman Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Early driver assist. Love the lingo.

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    Ellis97  over 1 year ago

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

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    Dom999  over 1 year ago

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

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    Space_cat  over 1 year ago

    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,

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    txmystic  over 1 year ago

    My Grandfather and uncle were way into this…

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    knutdl  over 1 year ago

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

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    offord  over 1 year ago

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

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    Jogger2  over 1 year ago

    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.

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    thevideostoreguy  over 1 year ago

    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!

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    kendavis09  over 1 year ago

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

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    Jonathan K. and the Elusive Dream Girl  over 1 year ago

    CB radio users had their own language:

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

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    Decepticomic  over 1 year ago

    Who’s talking, and how?

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    dap1004  over 1 year ago

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

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    Saddenedby Premium Member over 1 year ago

    okay good buddy, catch you on the flip flop

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    knight1192a  over 1 year ago

    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).

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    mreardon53 Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Had forgotten they existed. Thank goodness for classics comics.

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    PaintTheDust  over 1 year ago

    Breaker, breaker Ratchetjaw!

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    T...  over 1 year ago

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

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    billyk75  over 1 year ago

    Ah the mid 70’s.

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    Slatsmagee I  over 1 year ago

    You got the Snakecharmer here…

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    mindjob  over 1 year ago

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

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    EXCALABUR  over 1 year ago

    Blast from the past!

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    xsintricks  over 1 year ago

    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.

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    edonline  over 1 year ago

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

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    Sailor46 USN 65-95  over 1 year ago

    I had one in the middle to late 70s.

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    I❤️Peanuts  over 1 year ago

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

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    sheilag  over 1 year ago

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

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    198.23.5.11  over 1 year ago

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

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    WDD  over 1 year ago

    Boy, that’s going back years!

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