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Ugh. Nu52

I have some good gnus and some bad gnus for you.

Start spreading the gnus, thinly on nice crispy bread with a Mediterranean salad + dressing. That leaves plenty of room for pudding: Yak in a bucket.

That was when Sally Brown graduated from malapropims to puns.

Peanuts taught me so many cool things! I learned about gnus, cassowaries, Bangladesh, Susan B. Anthony, Yom Kippur...

I also loved it whenever she would do silly things with numbers like write down a string of 8's and then turn them into snowmen.

The storyline where she had to wear an eyepatch was hilarious!

One of the odder storylines was one where it became illegal to build a snowman without being part of a league. Sally and Linus both joined teams and Charlie Brown decided to defy the rule by building a snowman in the middle of the night, by which time Linus and Sally had both moved on to a bowling league.

I also love reading about their baseball games.

Baseball is almost more popular in Japan today than it is in the United States.

Quite a few anime have characters who play baseball.

Boys Be, for example. It also has some of the most beautiful anime opening songs I have ever hard.

And I love their episode quotes! So romantic. Episode 2, for example:

Peppermint Patty's baseball team is the Pelicans.

Yes, and one time she duped Charlie Brown into being their mascot and he had to wear a ludicrous pelican costume.

Good grief. Poor Charlie Brown.

One of the remarkable things about Peanuts was how matter-of-factly it dealt with many issues. Lucy, Violet, Frieda, and the other Patty were on Charlie Brown's baseball team and it was a non-issue, even though having boys and girls in sports together was unheard of at that time.

They also didnt make a fuss about how mean they all were to him on normal days.

Not exactly. Even in the Fifties, it was considered acceptable for young girls to play sports alongside boys, sometimes. It was supposed to be a thing you outgrew by the time you hit puberty, though.

I suppose you could argue that it was revolutionary for girls to play sports in big hair ribbons and frilly dresses, though.

It's comic strip physics. Same principle applies to women fighting crime in heels

Oh, Lordy. One of the women who probably replaced me at the software gig showed up in full execu-chick regalia for her interview the day before I left. Very nice looking three-inch black pumps, even. I really hope my then-boss warned her that a huge portion of the job would be racing up and down stairs with handfuls of documents. I'm getting sympathy pain just thinking about it...

Oh my.

I once had a classmate who wore heels every single day. One day she came in late, in the middle of an exam. Click click click on the marble floors...

I prefer dressing up for special occassions, and keeping my day-to-day wear casual and comfy.

If I could, I would wear t-shirts, shorts, and flip flops every day. Thankfully, being in college lets me get away with that most days!

I'm envious. Thankfully we have a dress-down policy at work, as long as there are no client meetings.

I do keep a spare set of business wear in the office, just in case.

I have another friend about your age, Stalgie, who feels the same way. I know he's glad the weather is getting warmer.

The weather here is getting too warm. I sweat a lot just walking from the car to the office.