Peanuts by Charles Schulz for January 03, 1965
January 02, 1965
January 04, 1965
Transcript:
Linus sits in a chair reading an encyclopedia.<BR><BR> Linus sits at a table drawing a picture of an elephant. He thinks, "Happiness is having the bell ring just as you are being called on to recite." Linus writes, "The elephant is a huge animal with ivory tusks."<BR><BR> Linus runs across the snow toward Charlie Brown. He says, "Look, Charlie Brown, look! I got an 'A' on my report!"<BR><BR> Linus shows the report to Charlie Brown and says, "We had to write a report on elephants for school and I was the only one who got an 'A'!"<BR><BR> Linus says, "I guess it was because I included a few extra facts." Charlie Brown asks, "What sort of 'extra facts'?"<BR><BR> Linus says, "All the best billiard players prefer genuine ivory balls because only ivory will hold 'English' after the second bank!"<BR><BR> Charlie Brown says, "It's nice to have a teacher who appreciates research."<BR><BR>
That’s an interesting fact about billiard balls. I wonder if in the past forty-seven years chemists have managed to develop a polymer for making billiard balls that retains spin as well as ivory balls do. I hope so.