Signs the Peanuts Comic Strip is Getting Old

The list for September 24, 1996

The Top 15 Signs the Peanuts
Comic Strip is Getting Old

Linus now comforted by *Social* Security Blanket.
Introduction of new bird named “Lollapalooza” in a last-ditch effort to appear hip.
The Guiness Book of Records proclaims that Snoopy, at age 326, is now the world’s oldest living canine.
Charlie Brown finally gets a valentine — from Anna Nicole Smith.
Snoopy still referred to as a dog, rather than a Canine-American.
Schroeder goes on tour opening for John Tesh.
Losing one’s clothes on the pitcher’s mound no longer considered cute.
New CBS special: “You’re Incontinent, Charlie Brown!”
Charlie Brown breaks hip when dottering Lucy forgets to pull football away.
Forget Beethoven’s Fifth — there’s only one kind of movement that makes Schroeder happy these days.
Lucy announces engagement to Larry King.
Sign on Lucy’s stand reads, “The Doctor is DEAD.”
Buffalo Bills retire place-kicker Charlie Brown’s number.
Peppermint Patty comes out of the closet and we learn why Marcie’s been calling her “Sir” all these years.

And the Number 1 Sign the Peanuts Comic Strip is Getting Old…

Instead of waiting in awe for the Great Pumpkin, Linus waits in dread for the Enlarged Prostate.

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