From: padutton@wpi.WPI.EDU (Peter Alan Dutton)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips,rec.games.trivia,rec.arts.animation
Subject: THE DEFINITIVE PEANUTS LIST (Responses)
Date: 7 Oct 92 15:49:19 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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[I've been getting a ton of responses - I'm reprinting most of them here
for all of your information. I hope nobody minds that I am reprinting
their letters - I figure that it's the best way to stop repeats and correct
any errors]

[My comments in brackets - Peter]

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From dxf12@slc12.INS.CWRU.Edu Tue Oct  6 17:15:01 1992 (Douglas Fowler)

     Hank Aaron was also mentioned as a baseball personality - Snoopy
was chasing Babe Ruth's homer record at the same time Aaron was.  Also,
though he is not named, the commisioner of baseball (I think) forced Charlie
Brown's team to forfeit a game because of gambling. (Rerun bet Snoopy a
quarter.)
     Schroeder started playing the piano at about 3, though the exact
age isn't given.  He seems to be a bit older than Linus, though not much,
when Lucy tells him in one strip he promised to go over and play for "my
little brother" during naptime. (This is from the mid or late '50s, so
it had to be Linus.  No, I don't have that good a memory, I saw that when
I was going through some of my old books as we were cleaning out our attic.)
     Snoopy's doghouse caught on fire, I believe, because he was smoking
in bed.

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From steph@cs.uiuc.edu Tue Oct  6 17:46:35 1992 (Dale Stephenson)

In rec.arts.comics.strips you write:
[snip]
>-BASEBALL: Babe Ruth, Willie Mays

Other baseball mentions:

Hank Aaron (when Snoopy was going to break Ruth's HR record, Charlie said
"I thought Hank Aaron was going to do that.)

Joe Garagiola (PP tells Marcie she could have been "traded for Joe Garagiola."

Willie McCovey  (I'm not sure on this one -- When the Giants lost the '62 (?)
series to the Yankees, ended by a McCovey liner snared by a Yankees infielder
in game 7, a strip showed Charlie and Schroeder sitting despondently on the
curb for three frames, until Charlie rises to his feet and cries "Why couldn't
McCovey hit the ball even *two* feet higher.)

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From glocke@morgan.ucs.mun.ca Tue Oct  6 18:42:37 1992 (Gordon Locke)
[...]
If you have any information regarding the strip, or if
there's an e-mailing list, or if there are any compilations coming out
or what-not, please mail me, as I find terribly little discussion re:
Peanuts on the r.a.comics.strips group.

[Anybody know of any new compilations?]

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From hellmerj@stolaf.edu Tue Oct  6 18:49:08 1992 (Jeffrey N Hellmers)

Hi!  This is a great list.  I have a general question about PEANUTS.  I have 
always been a huge fan of PEANUTS, but I always checked books out from the 
library instead of buying them. Now I would like to purchase some books.  Are
there any that you would recommend so that I can get a large portion of the 
PEANUTS comic strips in existence?  Have you heard if it is possible to buy
the complete PEANUTS collection?

Thanks for your help.

[Again - looks like people want this information!]

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From dzubera@oldfield.CS.ColoState.EDU Tue Oct  6 20:27:44 1992 (Zube)

The Great Pumpkin really does exist, according to Linus.  One time he was
trying to convince CB and said "In 195_, the Great Pumpkin appeared in <blank>
If you don't believe me look it up."  He then gives another reference of the
same format.

A semi-live person mentioned in the strip was Roy Hobbs.  Lucy said that
CB didn't need him on the team, even if he was a "Natural"

A great many athletes were mentioned when CB, Snoopy and Linus went to the
Sports Banquet and Joe Shlabotnik never showed up.

Snoopy mentions Olga Korbet as teaching him his gymnastic moves.

one of the tiny kids was Milo.  

Peanuts was actually called "Lil Folks" in previous incarnations.  Most
characters resembled Patty and Shermy, but there was also a dog which looked
very much like an early Snoopy.

Belle's son is refered to by Snoopy as looking like "the Pink Panther."

After Snoopy gave up his Bunny Wunny books (he found out that she has 22 pet
cats) he said "back to Herman Hesse."

Ages: CB once mentioned to the nurse at the emergency room that he was
eight and a half.

More as I think of them,
Zube

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From blum@medici.ils.nwu.edu Tue Oct  6 21:25:40 1992 (Daniel Blum)

The guy who liked Marcie was not Cormac - I don't remember his name,
but it wasn't that, and they don't look alike.

[OK - someone says it was, someone says it wasn't. Now who's right?]

Aunt Marian was Lucy's aunt (and, of course, Linus' and Rerun's as
well), not Charlie Brown's.

[Acutally, both CB and Lucy mention an Aunt Marian at some point. Pehaps
Schulz was running out of names? Could be - there are two characters named
"Patty"]

"Never marry a musician."

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From dhenry@plains.NoDak.edu Tue Oct  6 22:06:44 1992 (David Henry)

>10) The dreaded Kite-Eating Tree (pretty recurrent, I think)

If you're going to include the Kite-Eating Tree, why not add Linus' blanket.
Heck, remember the time it took over the van Pelt's house and chased Lucy
out into the rain?

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From klein@forest.egr.msu.edu Tue Oct  6 23:02:52 1992 (Jeff Klein)

Peggy Jean is indeed the girl CB met a camp last year - she calls
him "Brownie Charles".

A minor character is Olaf, Snoopy's brother.  He's fat.

Bill Mauldin is spelt Bill Mauldin, I believe.

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From Thomas_McGinnis@SEGNO.SOAR.CS.CMU.EDU Wed Oct  7 00:30:35 1992

 Truly trivial (from a rec.games.trivia lurker):

>REAL LIVE PEOPLE MENTIONED IN THE STRIP (I know there's LOTS more):
>-MUSICIANS: Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelsohnn, Bach, Schubert, Tschaikovsky, 
>	Haydn, Bartok

 Add "Handel" to the musicians (wc? "composers"?), as in (if I remember
an *old* strip): Charlie Brown is showing Shroeder a comic strip he has
drawn -- first musician: "Can you play 'Messiah'?" second musician: "Oh,
I think I can HANDEL it". CB thinks this is wildly funny, but S is not
impressed (don't remember if a reason was given, nor the puncline of
the (Peanuts) strip).

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From pashley@sdcc13.UCSD.EDU Wed Oct  7 02:45:03 1992 (Montykins)

>OTHER NAMED OR MENTIONED CHARACTERS THAT WERE NEVER ACTUALLY SEEN:
>
>4)  Joe Shlabotnik (Charlie Brown's favorite baseball player)

We see his hand, though, when he tosses Charlie Brown the
autographed ball (after he got fired as manager for calling a
squeeze play with no one on)

>7)  World War II (the cat next door to Snoopy)

Likewise, we see the claw frequently. ("That's no kitten, it's a
thousand pound gully cat!")

>17) Linus's blanket-hating grandmother (and all the other grandparents)

Actually, at one point, we _do_ see dialog from Linus's grandmother.
Linus tells Lucy he can predict what any adult will say in any
situation, so they each draw a picture, and grandmother says "Why, I
think they're both very nice, dear."

The voice balloon is right there in the strip. As far as I know,
it's the only adult dialog (unless Snoopy is adult). Even more rare
than Pigpen being clean! (Which has happened at _least_ four times)

[Linus and Lucy's mother also "appears" via word balloon a few times]

>-BASEBALL: Babe Ruth, Willie Mays

Willie McCovey ("Or why couldn't McCovey have it the ball just TWO
FEET higher?"), and of COURSE, Joe Garagiola. ("It could've been
worse. I could've traded you for Joe Garagiola.")

>-At the time of Sally's birth, Snoopy mentions that he never knew what it
>	was like to have a younger sister - he was an "only dog". But later
>	it is revealed that he was "one of eight Beagles", and we even get
>	to meet some of them.

Now that I think about it, doesn't Snoopy list a whole bunch of
relatives? When he's organizing a family reunion? ("Thomas Wolfe was
right. You can't go home again.")

>-When Schroeder was introduced, he was just a little baby. Same with Linus,
>	however, all their ages have kind of blurred together.

And Charlie Brown taught him to play the piano, too. Really!

 -Paul "Monty" Ashley
   (Peanuts trivia, you say? Bah ha ha!)

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From crow@camelot.bradley.edu Wed Oct  7 02:55:12 1992 (Nicole Lenard)

>7)  Harriet (yet another bird - got married to one of the other birds)
>8)  Bill (yet another bird)

Harriet and Bill are married.  They got married when Snoopy took
the birds on a "photo hike" to take pictures of nature.

As it turns out, all the film was used for the wedding pictures :)

--Nic (yet another Schultz fan) ;-)

[That's Schulz :-)

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From blofgren@phoenix.Princeton.EDU Wed Oct  7 10:20:17 1992 (Brent M. Lofgren)

I have a couple of more things to add.  Maybe you will need a daily
update. :-)

On a salute to Joe Garagiola on the Today Show, maybe a year ago, they
showed a Peanuts strip where he was mentioned.
It's Bill Mauldin, not "Maudlin".
And finally, one character who was at least mentioned, and I think we
saw him, was Harold Angel.  Sally kept saying that he was in a Christmas
play with her and would be coming over, and Charlie Brown didn't believe
that there was such a person, but sure enough, he came to their house.

[As in "Hark, the Harold Angel sings"?]

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