This reminds of the movie “Joy Ride”, about two guys on a road trip, playing a prank on a trucker by using a CB radio. If I remember right, they pretend that they’re a girl named “Candy Cane”, and they lead him on. The trucker turns out to be a psychopathic killer, and pursues the two guys.
When I read Peanuts in my school-days, I assumed that Charlie Brown and the other children were the only ones who were privy to the fact that Snoopy is more than just an ordinary dog – that is to say, I believed that the unseen grown-ups weren’t aware of things such as Snoopy being able to write and play tennis, etc. I eventually came to realize, though, that Snoopy’s human abilities are apparent to everyone in Peanuts, child and adult alike. In today’s strip, for instance – wouldn’t you be surprised, if you were in the neighbour’s shoes – to see a dog operating technical equipment?
Now, instead of following each other, and keeping the passing lane open, they’ll constantly try to pass each other at 0.1 of a MPH difference, backing traffic up for miles.
The only convoys you see anymore are typically all part of the same fleet. Independent truckers no longer try to form them.
My wife and I used CB sort of like a cell phone. I’d call her on the way home, and she’d tell me to either keep coming or to go pick up the pizza she’d be ordering
Buddy of mine used to play Fox and Hounds with his CB friends. One of them would drive out some place and start transmitting. The others had to try to track him down, just using signal strength and triangulation.
It was the cellphone of its day, more like a redneck telephone, but it was effective and popular briefly, a necessary tool for Truckers, farmers and stranded motorists. Cops still monitor channels 9 and 19 despite the prevalence of newer technology,
Lousy wildlife keeping everybody up all night with their seventies-era technology….lowering property values…and don’t get me started on that beagle with the World War I vintage aircraft!
How manyy kids reading this today even know whay a CB is. I imagine they’d be wonding why folks don’t bother using their smartphones if they watch Smokey and the Bandit, Convoy, or The Dukes of Hazzard. And if they do they find the jargon strange (yet look at texting jargon and tell me it’s not equally strange).
I had installed a 2m/70cm ham radio and a CB (installed mag mount antennas on the trunk lid) in my 2003 Toyota Corolla and was driving through the Bristol VA/TN area early one Saturday morning and was mistaken for the highway patrol.
Asharah over 1 year ago
Who else knows what a CB radio is?
Botulism Bob over 1 year ago
I still have mine sitting on the floor in my living room, I just haven’t used it in years.
mccollunsky over 1 year ago
‘Cause we got a little ol’ convoy ,rockin’ through the night.
KA7DRE Premium Member over 1 year ago
I was just wondering . . . Where have they got their antennas mounted ?
markkahler52 over 1 year ago
Ah, the days before texting.
therese_callahan2002 over 1 year ago
This was published at the peak of the CB radio craze, when nearly everyone in America owned one.
Blu Bunny over 1 year ago
Got one in summer 1976, rarely used it, listened to all the others chattering mostly.
Guy from southern Indiana over 1 year ago
This reminds of the movie “Joy Ride”, about two guys on a road trip, playing a prank on a trucker by using a CB radio. If I remember right, they pretend that they’re a girl named “Candy Cane”, and they lead him on. The trucker turns out to be a psychopathic killer, and pursues the two guys.
Hazelnut King over 1 year ago
When I read Peanuts in my school-days, I assumed that Charlie Brown and the other children were the only ones who were privy to the fact that Snoopy is more than just an ordinary dog – that is to say, I believed that the unseen grown-ups weren’t aware of things such as Snoopy being able to write and play tennis, etc. I eventually came to realize, though, that Snoopy’s human abilities are apparent to everyone in Peanuts, child and adult alike. In today’s strip, for instance – wouldn’t you be surprised, if you were in the neighbour’s shoes – to see a dog operating technical equipment?
VegaAlopex over 1 year ago
C W McCall in early 1976 (which probably inspired this episode in 1976).
johndifool over 1 year ago
Convoys are pretty much a thing of the past.
Now, instead of following each other, and keeping the passing lane open, they’ll constantly try to pass each other at 0.1 of a MPH difference, backing traffic up for miles.
The only convoys you see anymore are typically all part of the same fleet. Independent truckers no longer try to form them.
Wren Fahel over 1 year ago
My parents had a CB radio: Dad was “Nashua Woodman” & Mom was “Ma Tini”. My husband & I got one later; he was “Snow Owl” & I was “Silver Unicorn”.
Count Olaf Premium Member over 1 year ago
Breaker, Breaker Good Buddy. Wait, “Good Buddy” means what? Not that there’s anything wrong with that…
upanddown17 over 1 year ago
ottowald over 1 year ago
We called the ones that constantly talked “Ratchet Mouths”
Pocosdad over 1 year ago
I’ve apparently forgotten some of the CB lingo. Is “road tar” the term for coffee?
Forest Dweller 54 over 1 year ago
I remember having a CB radio, Channel 19 for the Smokies.
dflak over 1 year ago
My wife and I used CB sort of like a cell phone. I’d call her on the way home, and she’d tell me to either keep coming or to go pick up the pizza she’d be ordering
Gandalf over 1 year ago
Looks like we’ve got ourselves a convoy!
gantech over 1 year ago
Buddy of mine used to play Fox and Hounds with his CB friends. One of them would drive out some place and start transmitting. The others had to try to track him down, just using signal strength and triangulation.
Templo S.U.D. over 1 year ago
As Charlie Brown himself asks: why can’t he have a normal dog like everyone else?
akachman Premium Member over 1 year ago
Early driver assist. Love the lingo.
Ellis97 over 1 year ago
Are Snoopy and Woodstock barking and tweeting into the speakers? Because there’s no way they can communicate their thoughts into a speaker.
Dom999 over 1 year ago
Side on, bring it in.How many candles are you burnin?
Space_cat over 1 year ago
It was the cellphone of its day, more like a redneck telephone, but it was effective and popular briefly, a necessary tool for Truckers, farmers and stranded motorists. Cops still monitor channels 9 and 19 despite the prevalence of newer technology,
txmystic over 1 year ago
My Grandfather and uncle were way into this…
knutdl over 1 year ago
Breaker one-nine, this here’s the Rubber Duck!
offord over 1 year ago
C.W. McCall, writer and singer of the song “Convoy”, passed away a little over a year ago at the age of 93.
Jogger2 over 1 year ago
I had one. But, the car I bought in 2004 didn’t have a good place to mount one. So, it’s been in a storage box for nearly 20 years.
thevideostoreguy over 1 year ago
Lousy wildlife keeping everybody up all night with their seventies-era technology….lowering property values…and don’t get me started on that beagle with the World War I vintage aircraft!
kendavis09 over 1 year ago
Since being a longtime member of NSAI, my handle was “Songdog”
Jonathan K. and the Elusive Dream Girl over 1 year ago
CB radio users had their own language:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CB_slang
Decepticomic over 1 year ago
Who’s talking, and how?
dap1004 over 1 year ago
CBs are still useful. I ue mine on long trips. Getting info from CB’ers ahead of me helps me know how avoid backups.
Saddenedby Premium Member over 1 year ago
okay good buddy, catch you on the flip flop
knight1192a over 1 year ago
How manyy kids reading this today even know whay a CB is. I imagine they’d be wonding why folks don’t bother using their smartphones if they watch Smokey and the Bandit, Convoy, or The Dukes of Hazzard. And if they do they find the jargon strange (yet look at texting jargon and tell me it’s not equally strange).
mreardon53 Premium Member over 1 year ago
Had forgotten they existed. Thank goodness for classics comics.
PaintTheDust over 1 year ago
Breaker, breaker Ratchetjaw!
T... over 1 year ago
Never heard of it? That’s cause they banned it…
billyk75 over 1 year ago
Ah the mid 70’s.
Slatsmagee I over 1 year ago
You got the Snakecharmer here…
mindjob over 1 year ago
Made popular from the Smoke and the Bandit movies with Burt Reynolds
EXCALABUR over 1 year ago
Blast from the past!
xsintricks over 1 year ago
I had installed a 2m/70cm ham radio and a CB (installed mag mount antennas on the trunk lid) in my 2003 Toyota Corolla and was driving through the Bristol VA/TN area early one Saturday morning and was mistaken for the highway patrol.
edonline over 1 year ago
“Flying Ace to Yellow Bird. Come in Yellow Bird.”
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Sailor46 USN 65-95 over 1 year ago
I had one in the middle to late 70s.
I❤️Peanuts over 1 year ago
How come Charlie Brown’s mommy or daddy didn’t answer the telephone in the middle of the night?
sheilag over 1 year ago
Parents had a set of Motorola Mocat CB radios back in the day… premium radios.
198.23.5.11 over 1 year ago
Breaker,Breaker to the Bandit—-Diablo Sandwich and a Dr.pepper
WDD over 1 year ago
Boy, that’s going back years!