I understand that there are practical reasons in many circumstances for people to want daylight to linger, but a purely affective aversion to long dark evenings is hard for me to grasp . If I were in this cartoon, the reason I’d have for feeling gloomy is precisely that, from now on, the incursions of the afternoon sun on “my old friend” dark evenings are going to be more and more transgressive.
I can’t help thinking that, having made Linus the sincere spokesman for the real meaning of Christmas, Schulz deliberately undercut his credibility as a messenger of traditional piety by making him a zealous apostle of the Great Pumpkin.
Thanks to Gene for writing that song, and for much else, but the brilliantly inventive rendition by Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters is far and away the best.
In the style of Little Annie Fanny by Will Elder?? But if this is a takeoff on a Harvey Kurtzman script it must be one (of many) that escaped my notice.
Yes, but waffles are (even) better.