That’s funny . . . they were around here somewhere . . .
- Linus van Pelt to his sister Lucy after claiming that he had just seen two exactly alike snowflakes in a snowstorm.
That’s funny . . . they were around here somewhere . . .
Today I read an article about It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, and as much as I hate to admit it, the article makes a good a point:
In order for Charlie Brown to get a bag full of nothing but rocks after trick-or-treating, literally every adult in the area, including his parents, would have to have been working together in a conspiracy to ruin this poor kid’s Halloween.
My son did fine on his “first day of school schedule.” He was amiable and interested in whatever school project we were doing at the moment.
He also exhausted everything I had planned for him in the first hour.
Fortunately for me, I had been warned about this possibility by those with an actual background in early childhood education, so I managed to adapt, but I do find myself in the position of considering the second day of his school schedule with the attitude of “We have to do it again?!”
Personally I blame Charles Schulz for this, because I’m pretty sure I remember Sally saying something similar to this in an old Peanuts strip . . .
It was frequently said of her, “she knew not how to suffer in silence.”
– Lucy van Pelt (speaking of herself), Peanuts
When the alarm went off at four o’clock in the morning, Charlie Brown felt like he had been stepped on by an elephant.
– You’re in LOVE, Charlie Brown by Charles M. Schulz