Peanuts by Charles Schulz for May 16, 1981
Transcript:
Schroeder plays the piano. Lucy leans on the piano and says, "I'm doing a paper on Beethoven . . Did you know that he never played hockey?"<BR><BR> Schroeder asks, "He didn't?" Lucy replies, "No, he didn't."<BR><BR> Lucy adds, "If he had played hockey, he would have written some hockey music!"<BR><BR> Lucy reads, "Beethoven was born in 1770 . . He never played hockey."<BR><BR>
Considering that hockey wasn’t invented until 1917, it would have been a neat (hat) trick for Beethoven to have played it.