Peanuts by Charles Schulz for September 13, 1964
Transcript:
Charlie Brown sits at his desk with a pen and ink jar and practices his cursive writing.<BR><BR> Charlie Brown makes a face and says, "Rats! I just can't do it!!"<BR><BR> Linus asks, "What's the matter, Charlie Brown?" Charlie Brown replies, "I can't write like the teacher wants us to . . ."<BR><BR> Charlie Brown says, "Look at this book . . . See how nice all the letters are? I can't write like that! I never will be able to write like that!"<BR><BR> Linus says, "Of course you can't, Charlie Brown . . . Neither could the person who wrote this book . . . What he did, you see, was take the best letters and make photostats of them."<BR><BR> Linus continues, "Then from the photostats he made a paste up of the whole page and printed it to look like it was done perfectly . . ."<BR><BR> Linus walks away and says, "You are a victim of studio technique."<BR><BR> Charlie Brown says, "Whom do I sue?"<BR><BR>
How prescient. Most kids today aren’t being taught cursive writing and can’t even read it.