Peanuts by Charles Schulz for May 21, 1978
May 20, 1978
May 22, 1978
Transcript:
Linus looks thougthfully into a store window. He stands in the field looking to his right; he exclaims,"Lucy, dear sister!"<BR><BR> He walks over to her holding an object in his hand. He says,"I almost bought you a birthday present just now." He smiles and says,"I saw this bottle of cologne in a store window, and it only cost a dollar..."<BR><BR> He continues,"I knew it would make you happy to get it, but then I saw something that I knew would make you even more happy!"<BR><BR> He continues,"In the window of the store next door, there was a salami sandwich which also cost a dollar...now, I know how concerned you are for the peoples of this world..."<BR><BR> He says,"I know how happy it's going to make you when I become a famous doctor, and can help the people of the world." He continues,"But if I'm going to become a doctor, I'm going to have to get good grades in school..."<BR><BR> He continues,"And to get good grades, I'm going to have to study, and in order to study, I have to be healthy..."<BR><BR> He shows her the object in his hands and concludes,"In order to be healthy, I have to eat...so instead of the cologne, I bought the sandwich...all for your happiness!"<BR><BR> As he walks off eating the sandwich, Lucy looks at the reader and exclaims,"I'm so happy, I could cry!"<BR><BR>
Linus, I can put up with your enticing innocent girls to sit with you in the pumpkin patch, thereby ruining their Halloween. And I understand having a domineering, bullying, loud-mouthed older sister like Lucy can be trying. But you are a first-class jerk in this strip.