From: padutton@wpi.WPI.EDU (Peter Alan Dutton)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.strips,rec.games.trivia,rec.arts.animation
Subject: PEANUTS LIST - Even MORE responses
Date: 7 Oct 1992 21:53:45 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: wpi.wpi.edu


[ABOUT THE PEANUTS LIST]

[Here are alot more replies. Again - my comments in brackets. This is
getting too big to send a personal note to everyone right now - sorry
about that. Maybe if I didn't have work to do! Keep sending in 
additions anyway! - padutton@wpi.wpi.edu]

[By the way - I did remember some of this stuff before it was sent to me,
but to be fair, I'll give credit anyway...]

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From 6500topo%ucsbuxa@hub.ucsb.edu Wed Oct  7 13:12:20 1992 (Rabid Rat)

What about the new kid in class (I think his name is Corman) that
just in this days is after Sally (still in love with her "sweet babboon")???

PAolo

[It's Cormac, and "sweet babboo"]

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From pksuk@mailbox.syr.edu Wed Oct  7 14:29:35 1992 (Peter Kwangjun Suk)

Under references to real people, BASEBALL, you forgot Casey Stengel.
From an early thread about Charlie Brown being a baseball manager.  There is
one strip where he kicks a pile of hats, and they all land on his head, and he
says, "I bet even Casey Stengel couldn't do that!"

[Thread? You've been reading too much netnews!]

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From grimmy@cbnewsi.att.com Wed Oct  7 14:29:45 1992 (Mike Procopio)

>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?]

A little bit about Cormac ... this is from 7/22/92 ... I have it hanging up
at work:

(Panel 1) CORMAC:  I think you're very beautiful, Miss Marcie.
		   When you grow up you should be a model.

(Panel 2) MARCIE:  Thank you, Cormac.  What are you going to be
		   when you grow up?

(Panel 3) CORMAC:  Smooth!

I don't know if he necessarily "likes" Marcie, though.  He now sits behind
Sally in class.

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From James.Langdell@Eng.Sun.COM Wed Oct  7 15:11:54 1992 (James Langdell)

The only two times I recall any physical presence of an
adult being on panel in Peanuts are...

--An early Sunday strip where Linus has told Charlie Brown about the
  delights of his blanket.  The last panel shows Charlie Brown at a store
  counter (at least one hand of the clerk is visible) as he says "One yard
  of blue outing flannel and don't laugh."

[I think it was Lucy explaining her baby brother's blanket to CB]

--Wasn't Mrs. Van Pelt's back visible when Rerun was being carried in a
  backsack while she rode her bicycle?

[I think so]

Apart from these incidents, the on-panel world of Peanuts
is entirely children and animals (and whatever Snoopy is really).

[Snoopy is a BEAGLE - don't you pay attention?  :-)

One bizarre on-panel appearance of a known figure was during a series when
Charlie Brown kept seeing a baseball in the sky in place of the sun.  One
morning he wakes up, feeling he is back to normal, and then sees the sun
with Alfred E. Newman's grinning face.  ***I'M NOT MAKING THIS UP!!!!***

[I remember this - this was after he went to camp with a sack over his head]

Another composer mentioned in the strip is Sinding, as named by a radio
announcer at the end of a piece of his chamber music-- surprisingly not the
one piece by which Sinding is usually known, "Rustle of Spring."  (That
piano piece is the music played for the "Three Grecian urns and a fountain"
scene in "The Music Man.")  That's the most esoteric music reference
I recall appearing in Peanuts.

[Well, what about "How Much Is That Doggie In The Window"?]

I bet many, many more sports figures have been mentioned in strips when
Snoopy exercises his prowess in each sport.  Given Schultz's personal
involvement in ice skating, I'm sure many in that sport have been honored
in Peanuts.

[I think that Snoopy mentioned Bobby Orr and some famous player named
"Maurice" after slapshotting the hell out of Charlie Brown. I'm not
sure, though. And he talked about skating with Peggy Fleming and Olga
Korbut, among others. See below]

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From Thomas_McGinnis@SEGNO.SOAR.CS.CMU.EDU Wed Oct  7 16:32:52 1992

 Didn't Snoopy talk about (ice) skating with Peggy Fleming...?

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From blum@medici.ils.nwu.edu Wed Oct  7 17:02:16 1992 (Daniel Blum)

About Aunt Marian - OK, but you didn't have the other one listed.

[I was going to put it in the next incarnation of the list! It came to me
shortly after I posted the last one! Really!]

There was a third girl whom PP counseled at camp, but I have no idea
what her name was.

[Neither do I]

Within the past year or so, there was a girl with dark hair who sat
either behind or in front of Linus in class - I don't remember her
name.

[I think this is Eudora]

When CB goes to see the Waffletown Syrups play, there are three
speaking characters not listed: the kid who sits next to him, the
batboy, and the girl (?) who takes his autograhped baseball.

[The WAFFLETOWN SYRUPS? Now THAT'S trivia!]

There are probably a bunch of unnamed kids who appear in one or two
strips each - for example, in the strip where Linus goes to another
neighborhood to preach about the Great Pumpkin, there are a couple of
kids whom we never see again.

Other animals who appear - Frieda's cat and miscellaneous bunnies.

[As well as various worms who mugged Woodstock when he and Snoopy went
fishing]

[And to add to the list of inanimate objects that can move under their
own volition - Sally's beach ball: "You have to know how to talk to them"
(she wasn't nearly as sucessful with her balloon), and CB's kite. 
Schroeder's pianos are frequently the targets of Lucy's jealous attacks,
as well]

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