Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for July 18, 2022

well, dogfish are sharks (rather small ones)

Flashback to when Jaws was in theatres…a lot of kids refused to get in the swimming pool, bathtub, etc for fear of sharks. I remember the gym teacher taking us to the high school pool and pointing out that the water was clear, chlorinated and contained no seawater. “Do you SEE a shark in there? Do you think a shark could survive in that much chlorine? And lemme ask you all—how would a shark get into a pool in Iowa? Through the water pipes?”

When the Van Pelt’s pool landed on him, CB mistook it for a UFO. Then, when he saw Lucy in her swimming gear, he mistook her for a Martian.

Just when you thought that it was save to go back into the water.

Good one, Snoopy!

Way back in high school, I went to a summer marine biology camp. After a few days of collecting and collating sea life, our counselors decided we’d done enough work and took us into town to see a movie. The movie, of course, was “Jaws.”

That shark will woof you down!

Well shark week IS coming….

Just saw the original Jaws yesterday – brought back memories!

There’s a primal fear of actually being killed AND eaten which scares the bejeebers out of us. It’s the adrenaline rush of movies like Jaws and Jurassic Park to name but two which so attract and repel us simultaneously.

I’ve heard that during filming they had continuing problems with the mechanical shark and so Spielberg decided they would just have to use John Williams’s menacing music in place of actually having the shark. And of course it turned out to be much scarier.

A group of us decided to see Jaws the day before our open water SCUBA dive in NY, big mistake!

Just when it was safe to swim in the pool.