Peanuts by Charles Schulz for May 21, 2021

I bet the S on the compass stood for “somewhere.” What would the W and E thereon stand for?

“Wow! Even the round-headed kid is dumping on me.”

Only a Northern Song…

I had an expensive compass, N pointed to Nordstrom’s.

Compasses are no good unless you know what direction where you want to go lies from where you are.

Having said that, I remember visiting a friend in a small Oklahoma town. Their phonebook was just a few pages, and adresses were things like “east of town.”

He tried following the compass, but it didn’t go anywhere.

He’s a real no where dog.

“Snoopy’s on the road to nowhere.”

That only works up to a certain point. Here in Reykjavík, Iceland, it’s off by about 12 degrees, so the compass actually points a bit west of north. If you were directly east of the magnetic north pole, the “N” would be west, and if you were between the magnetic and geographic north poles, “N” would be south.

That certainly is where you’re going.

Everybody knows this is nowhere.

As for as Beagle Scouts go, he’s the worst.

One of the tricks they taught us in survival school is that since all trees look the same, if you want to travel in a specific compass direction, send a member of your party as far out into the woods as you can see him and then direct him where to stand and then walk up to him and repeat the process.

The trick is, don’t pick someone who looks like a tree.

The question I have is, if orient means east, why is it when you orient a map, you put north on the top?

Snoopy’s gift is the power of imagination. Not way finding ;)

Snoopy needs to buy the Beagle Scout Handbook for Dummies!

stop ripping on him. He is a dog after all.

Snoopy’s eye roll in the first panel…

Is this strip edited? The lettering in Panel 3 is off center.

I just ask my iPhone.

so do you think the s means somewhere??

Why would a compass point nowhere?

Go N far enough, and you will be nowhere.

“East? I thought you said Weast!”-Patrick Star, Spongebob Squarepants

Probably forgot to charge his cell phone before he left home…