Peanuts by Charles Schulz for August 03, 1953
August 02, 1953
August 04, 1953
Transcript:
Shermy and Charlie Brown are in the neighborhood. Shermy hands Charlie Brown an ice-cream cone and the latter asks, "Didn't they have any plaid?"<BR><BR> Shermy replies, "PLAID?! Plaid ice cream?" Charlie Brown asks, "Or how about gray? I like gray...."<BR><BR> He continues as they walk down the lane, "Chartreuse is good, too...Didn't they have any chartreuse?"<BR><BR> He concludes, "Vanilla tastes all right, but it bores me..."<BR><BR>
Great Pumpkin about 13 years ago
One can burn holes in one’s retinas. This leads to permanent blind spots. ¡Noting like irreversible partial blindness! One should never look directly at the Sun.
Because the UV-Light of the Sun causes cataracts after a few decades, one should wear sunglasses outside blocking 100% of UV-Light. As well as blocking 100% of UV-Light, sunglasses should also be polarized:
Bouncing off of surfaces shifts the polarization of light. As a result, reflected glare has a pretty much horizontal polarization if it reflects off of an horizontal surface. Polarized sunglasses reduce glare by about 90%.
JCooper.Brooklin almost 13 years ago
Thank you mr. science.However, I agree that Schultz didn’t know the risk he was taking in people copying this prank unknowingly causing serious eye damage.
NateWright over 12 years ago
is the Great Pumpkin a doctor or something?
LadyBlanc about 12 years ago
People didn’t know about the possibility of retinal damage by looking at the sun in the 50s. A little persepctive, perhaps?
yow4zip Premium Member over 11 years ago
Very clever, Charlie Brown.
SuperSunshine10 over 6 years ago
This comic came out today!
FrostbiteFalls about 1 year ago
This was something people (presumably including Schulz) were woefully uninformed about back then.