Peanuts by Charles Schulz for January 25, 1952
January 24, 1952
January 26, 1952
Transcript:
Patty approaches Charlie Brown sitting behind a table (with a slip of paper on it)with a pencil tucked behind his ear and holding a box. He shows the box to her and says, "If I can save two-thousand of these box tops, I get a tricycle!"<BR><BR> She sits on the opposite side of the table and watches him write. He continues, "I've got it all figured out...I eat about one box of this stuff every week..."<BR><BR> They walk off as he looks at the paper and continues, "That means I'll have enough box tops by the time I'm forty!"<BR><BR> They stop, and he concludes, "But what am I going to do with a tricycle when I'm forty years old?"<BR><BR>
yow4zip Premium Member almost 13 years ago
The offer will probably be expired by then.
gamer2k4 over 11 years ago
It’s okay, Charlie Brown! Forty years from now, you’ll only be eight!
BarrelO'Molasses Premium Member almost 8 years ago
It’s probably enough money FROM box tops so he can buy a tricycle.
C wolfe almost 5 years ago
What happen to the one he already had?
Commenter8888 over 3 years ago
by then you’ll have a bicycle.
[Unnamed Reader - b10daf] about 2 months ago
Approximately a decade later, a series of “Rocky and Bullwinkle” episodes would show Boris and Natasha plotting to destroy the US economy by mass producing and passing counterfeit boxtops.