Peanuts by Charles Schulz for August 06, 2012

What’s a “hodad”?

If there’s anybody that’s a hot dog, it’s Snoopy!

Well, they are a good source of protein. What kind did you eat?

Decades before Bart Simpson.Show her you’re “Joe Cool”.

IIRC, a hodad is a sort of hoodlum, non-surfer. I don’t think I’ve heard the term since the early ‘60s, and never before saw it in "print’. I didn’t know it was a widely used term outside of the South Bay area of Los Angeles. Jarred my memory—a good laugh.

I also think “hodad” is short for “hodaddy.”

Snoopy_Fan: What’s a “hodad”?

Apparently it’s someone who doesn’t impress a beach beagle.

I didn’t mean to insult hodaddies, and apologize if I did in calling them “hoodlums.” This would mostly have been from the perspective of the surfers or those who hung around surfers.

That is Snoopy for you.

Panel 3 is iconic!

A “Hodad” is a person that hangs out at the beach but is not a surfer. Usually into fast cars but not always.There is even a couple of restaurants named Hodad’s

Cowabunga! Before the Ninja Turtles…

thats the spirit snoop.

What ever happened to nice guys giving bouquets of roses and kissing the hand of the girl they like?When I was in fifth grade, a boy in my class gave me a dollar and told me to have a good life. <3

Didn’t “Cowabunga!” come from Howdie Doodie first?

I do like Linus’s idea of a dream date, though. Sitting in a pumpkin patch, waiting for the Great Pumpkin…so romantic. ;P

Lost his mind?

He’s trying to impress a girl!

Nothing wrong with that is there?

Love the 3rd Panel.

xxx

As a teenager I had a poster of the iconic panel three up in my bedroom for several years. Thank-you C.S. for the inspiration!

I think Linus’ is going to take Snoopy to Lucy’s psychiatrist stand!

Yep, Snoopy has lost his mind over a girl again. Cowabunga!!!!

Tubular Dude!.Showing off in front goes way back. (and must work).

From Hodad’s menu…I wonder if we could add this to the menu over at Big Top?

Love it! The classic Cowabunga panel. It was a poster in the middle school library when I was a kid. Early ’70’s.

Can I ask an irrelevant question? The Peanuts gang live in a state where they have snow. You remember Snoopy trapped in his doghouse by an icicle. Then in summer, they all go to the beach, such as todays cool Snoopy surfing. So what State do they live in?

“When a word is removed, he says, it’s usually because the thing it names is no longer used; other times the word itself becomes dated, like hodad, used in the Beach Boys era to mean a non-surfer who pretends to be a surfer.” 

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2012/08/meet-dictionarys-new-words-f-bomb-sexting-bucket-list/55745/

Snoopy: 100% cool doggie!!