I don't know enough Peanuts to really parse this conversation, I'm afraid.
First Pooh, now Peanuts? Sheeesh, poor Gris. Were you raised under a rock?
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Topic!Cindy - Jul 08, 2006 11:29:14 am PDT #1013 of 28095
What is even happening?
sumi - Jul 08, 2006 11:52:37 am PDT #1014 of 28095
Art Crawl!!!
Is Kelly Hogan on that too?
Kate P. - Jul 08, 2006 12:52:30 pm PDT #1015 of 28095
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Is Kelly Hogan on that too?
Yep. [link] The whole group is John Wesley Harding, Kelly Hogan, Nora O'Connor, and Brian Lohmann.
Gris - Jul 08, 2006 7:28:46 pm PDT #1016 of 28095
Hey. New board.
Sheeesh, poor Gris. Were you raised under a rock?
I was raised in the 80s. By the time I was looking at comic strips, Peanuts was WELL past its peak. Calvin and Hobbes was my love.
I liked the movie that Charlie Brown was in the spelling bee, though.
Polter-Cow - Jul 08, 2006 7:49:13 pm PDT #1017 of 28095
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Gris, I was raised in the 80s too. And the Peanuts talk made me click around in Wikipedia to refresh my memory, and I was surprised by how much I'd been exposed to the characters. I don't really like the strip much because it's not that funny and it spoiled Citizen Kane for me, but it's so much of a cultural thing.
Volans - Jul 08, 2006 7:55:23 pm PDT #1018 of 28095
move out and draw fire
it spoiled Citizen Kane for me
Heh. I remember reading that strip when I was like 4, and totally not getting it. But the spoilage for Citizen Kane is so pervasive I can't blame Peanuts.
(And being raised in the 80s doesn't excuse the lack of Pooh)
DebetEsse - Jul 08, 2006 7:59:22 pm PDT #1019 of 28095
Woe to the fucking wicked.
My father collected the books, back in the day, so I know the print version quite well. However, I just within the past few years saw the Christmas Special for the first time, and I still haven't seen any of the others (that I recall). I may be Sally, but mostly by default.
Gris - Jul 08, 2006 8:22:58 pm PDT #1020 of 28095
Hey. New board.
And being raised in the 80s doesn't excuse the lack of Pooh
I make no excuses for that. Well, other than "My parents didn't read it to me." Not sure why - I got plenty of other books.
Topic!Cindy - Jul 09, 2006 3:38:26 am PDT #1021 of 28095
What is even happening?
I was raised in the 80s. By the time I was looking at comic strips, Peanuts was WELL past its peak. Calvin and Hobbes was my love.I figured TV exposure like A Charlie Brown Christmas and It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, were enough.
I liked the movie that Charlie Brown was in the spelling bee, though.I don't remember that one. I think I'm a snob about which Charlie Brown TV movies I accept as canon.
DavidS - Jul 09, 2006 7:12:35 am PDT #1022 of 28095
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I liked the movie that Charlie Brown was in the spelling bee, though.
I don't remember that one. I think I'm a snob about which Charlie Brown TV movies I accept as canon.
Awww, c'mon that's one of the few theatrically released movies that's good. Don't you remember the word he misspelled?
JZ and I caught Snoopy Come Home on TiVo and she was getting all caught up in it and knew the songs.