Peanuts by Charles Schulz for May 07, 2024

We’re all afraid to say anything.

Good thing Snoopy isn’t a chatterbox.

It’s a good thing Snoopy’s used to dealing with crabby girls.

She has legs?

“She who must be obeyed.”

Time to fake an injury, Snoopy.

A modern cartoonist would probably have used the term “fat @ss”. Watterson kept the strip squeaky clean even in the later years. In his 1990 authorised biography, it is stated that he was proud to have never used any Fire Hydrant gags.

I think I saw her picture on a bottle of iodine.

I’m not mean and angry, I’m just drawn that way.

I don’t know why Snoopy or anyone would make a comment about her fat legs or arms. Now, dumb hat, that’s another matter.

Cankles

Snoopy should sue that little brat for animal cruelty.

Why does Molly Volley hate to lose?

Not at all likeable, is she!

Tennis a foreign language for football fans

“Wha? Hadn’t noticed.”

I think even Snoopy was smart enough to keep his snout shut on that.

Yes Sargent, I’ll guard my alley right up your street.

She forgot to mention that, if they lose, Snoopy gets all the blame.

John McEnroe saw this character and thought, “Hmm, not bad.”

Poor Snoopy.

May 7, 1824 (200 years ago today), in the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna, was the first public performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 — “the Glorious Ninth.” Beethoven was present but passed the baton (so to speak) to Michael Umlauf, the theatre’s Kapellmeister, while Beethoven shared the stage with him. However, two years earlier, Umlauf had watched as the composer’s attempt to conduct a dress rehearsal for a revision of his opera Fidelio ended in disaster. So this time, he (Umlauf) instructed the singers and musicians to ignore the almost completely deaf Beethoven. At the beginning of every part, Beethoven, who sat by the stage, gave the tempos. He was turning the pages of his score and beating time for an orchestra he could not hear.

Reportedly, the scherzo was completely interrupted at one point by applause. At the end of the symphony, Beethoven was several bars off and still conducting; the contralto Caroline Unger walked over and gently turned Beethoven around to accept the audience’s cheers and applause. According to the critic for the Theater-Zeitung, “the public received the musical hero with the utmost respect and sympathy, listened to his wonderful, gigantic creations with the most absorbed attention and broke out in jubilant applause, often during sections, and repeatedly at the end of them.” The audience acclaimed him through standing ovations five times; there were handkerchiefs in the air, hats, and raised hands, so that Beethoven, who they knew could not hear the applause, could at least see the ovations.

[largely cribbed from the Wikipedia article]

“Now, let’s go out there and have fun!” ☺

“Hate to lose.” Did she formerly play for Shoresy’s Sudbury Bulldogs?

I’m sure this will go smoothly.

Wow, she out crabs Lucy by a long shot

Andy Rooney’s granddaughter.

Volley girl

She’s that Volley girl

Volley girl

She’s that Volley girl

Okay, fine

Fer sure, fer sure

She’s that Volley girl

On a tennis court

Okay, fine

Fer sure, fer sure

Frank and Moon Zappa

And If/When we lose, it’ll be ALL your fault.

Ooh, she’s a peach.

Reminds me of that Dylan song, “Knock, knock, knocking on noggins door”

She understand Woof?

Which is much worse than A Bop On The Bean.

Run Snoopy and don’t look back!

Schultz’s philandering shows in how he treated a lot of his female characters.

Should have as her partner

Who put what in her protein shake today?