Peanuts was a six day per week strip for the first 15 months (October ’50 through December ’51. Peanuts Begins publishes a strip seven days per week, so it is inevitable that the strip will not stay in sync with the calendar. The first Sunday strip was published on January 6, 1952, so we will soon see the dates on the strip keep pace with our current year calendar. But unless GC does something, the strips will remain about a month out of sync.
Yontrop is correct. A pianist has no control over the pitch of the strings. I think this is more a comment on Charlie’s pretentious claim of knowledge than on whether the notes are in tune.
My apologies, I just reread the strip and there it is at the bottom of the dialog box in panel 3. It doesn’t say “beef,” but one can assume that’s what it was – maybe Dinty Moore?
An interesting discussion about beef stew, but how did the subject come up? I don’t seen any mention of it in the strip, just pork chops and an unspecified alternative.
I thought that was one of Dorothy Parker’s gems, but it appears to be from Alice Roosevelt Longworth. Alice was the inspiration for the song “Alice Blue Gown.”
Read my reply below to Orinoco Womble.