Only noting that at least SOMEone thinks EVERYone knows ‘Peanuts’ . . .
Did Huckleberry Finn fish a lot?
I was thinking the tangled line might mean Charlie Brown in his attempts to fly a kite, but he seems to be carrying a fishing pole, so….
Maybe it’s not a costume at all, and he’s just bad at fishing.
I think assuming Caulfield’s dressed as Pig Pen is the opposite of assuming ‘everybody knows Peanuts’… Caulfield doesn’t go for ‘everybody knows’.
What I meant is that Mallett assumed that everyone reading this would know who/what ‘Peanuts’ is.
There’s nothing Mallet would love more then knowing that Peanuts was obscure and being referring to it as though it was common knowledge. But it’s not at that state yet I think.
I suspect this may be a pun of some sort.
Like Tanglewood Tales or something like that but more specific to an individual character.
…. Hmmm, at a party Saturday a couple came, he as a pickle, she as a deer. They enjoyed the gasp people made when they got it.
But I don’t think I’ll get this.
So my very first guess was Isaak Walton, but his clothes are way too modern. He says it’s only “sort of” a classic. I think I’m going to need at least another day.
@woozy: I don’t get the pickle and the deer at all.
I had to look up the pickle deer costume because I couldn’t figure it out.
I didn’t think that through did I…Don’t look too closely at the link if you don’t want to be spoiled!!
I’ma go with Trout Fishing in America
Just because
“I’ma go with Trout Fishing in America
Just because”
I’m backing you you. For now… I might disassociate later.
As for the Pickle Deer costume: Those weren’t them but: 1) The pickle comes first then the deer and 2) It’s a type of pickle.
The fishing line strewn behind him as he walks looks just like the clouds of dust that Schultz drew behind pig pen.
I vaguely remember from long ago a comic strip where one character was wrapped in a tangle of fishing line. It’s so vague a memory, that I don’t know if it was a one-off or if it was common for that character.
A man arrives at the door of a fancy-dress party in plain clothes but carrying his girlfriend piggy-back. At the quizzical eyebrow-raise of the host, he says “I’ve come as a snail.” He nods at his girlfriend. “This is Michelle.”
[NB this works better in places where, as in the UK, it is pretty normal to refer to “me car”, “me girlfriend”, or indeed “ma car”, &c, rather than enunciating “my” clearly.]
And now for something completely different: A song published in 1600 written by Thomas Morley, here sung by Alfred Deller. https://youtu.be/xnB7T-UQ5x0
Only on CIDU could counter tenor Alfred Deller be ‘outed’ singing a song like that . . . I choked on the Smarties I’d just put in my mouth (Do you think HE knew what he was singing? I can’t believe he wouldn’t’ve known.)
“Trout Fishing in America” sounds like a pretty good guess. The tangled fishing line could represent the strange structure of the book. The only objection I see is that Caulfield usually goes as a character from a work of literature.
I’m guessing he’s Norman MacLean, the main character from (and author of) “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories,” published in 1976. (Or perhaps his brother Paul?)
I don’t know if the book is considered to be “great literature” – I never read it – however they did make us watch the movie in one of my high school English classes. My recollection of the film is that there was fishing and that I was extremely bored.
“The only objection I see is that Caulfield usually goes as a character from a work of literature.”
I was wondering if that was why he said “Sort of” in the first panel. Still going with “Trout fishing in America”. I had considered Scott’s “Tangled Web” but to go as a poetic phrase seemed a little obscure.
I’m only joking. But the denizens here might like the story. The title started as a non-existent book asked for unsuccessfully by an elderly gentleman from several second-hand bookshops in a popular 80s TV commercial for BT’s phone directory, Yellow Pages. It only later became a “real” book.
You know, it really annoys me that Frazz is presumed to be so hip and above it all he has to be in on the joke; and he has to rub it in that he knows and everybody else doesn’t. Really pretentious and smarmy.
My problem with the first comic is that while Pigpen’s dust cloud and a tangled fishing line might look the same in a comic strip panel, there’s no way Miss Plainwell could confuse the two in person.
Speaking of Pigpen…
B.A.: But Miss Plainwell is also in a comic!
Confirmed.
All that setup and Frazz seems to be quoting but he’s actually paraphrasing: “When my father said it was an art that ended at two o’clock, he often added, “closer to twelve than to two,” meaning that the rod should be taken back only slightly farther than overhead (straight overhead being twelve o’clock).” Where’s an ellipsis when you need one? ;-)
@ Tim Shea – Frazz is not quoting, his paraphrase is intended as commentary about Caulfield’s early disappearance.
Comics I Don't Understand 
Only noting that at least SOMEone thinks EVERYone knows ‘Peanuts’ . . .
Did Huckleberry Finn fish a lot?
I was thinking the tangled line might mean Charlie Brown in his attempts to fly a kite, but he seems to be carrying a fishing pole, so….
Maybe it’s not a costume at all, and he’s just bad at fishing.
I think assuming Caulfield’s dressed as Pig Pen is the opposite of assuming ‘everybody knows Peanuts’… Caulfield doesn’t go for ‘everybody knows’.
What I meant is that Mallett assumed that everyone reading this would know who/what ‘Peanuts’ is.
There’s nothing Mallet would love more then knowing that Peanuts was obscure and being referring to it as though it was common knowledge. But it’s not at that state yet I think.
I suspect this may be a pun of some sort.
Like Tanglewood Tales or something like that but more specific to an individual character.
…. Hmmm, at a party Saturday a couple came, he as a pickle, she as a deer. They enjoyed the gasp people made when they got it.
But I don’t think I’ll get this.
So my very first guess was Isaak Walton, but his clothes are way too modern. He says it’s only “sort of” a classic. I think I’m going to need at least another day.
@woozy: I don’t get the pickle and the deer at all.
I had to look up the pickle deer costume because I couldn’t figure it out.
Answer behind a link in case someone doesn’t want to be spoiled.
https://mashable.com/2016/10/24/dill-doe-halloween-costume/#h4BuvNhiTOqX
I didn’t think that through did I…Don’t look too closely at the link if you don’t want to be spoiled!!
I’ma go with Trout Fishing in America
Just because
“I’ma go with Trout Fishing in America
Just because”
I’m backing you you. For now… I might disassociate later.
As for the Pickle Deer costume: Those weren’t them but: 1) The pickle comes first then the deer and 2) It’s a type of pickle.
The fishing line strewn behind him as he walks looks just like the clouds of dust that Schultz drew behind pig pen.
I vaguely remember from long ago a comic strip where one character was wrapped in a tangle of fishing line. It’s so vague a memory, that I don’t know if it was a one-off or if it was common for that character.
A man arrives at the door of a fancy-dress party in plain clothes but carrying his girlfriend piggy-back. At the quizzical eyebrow-raise of the host, he says “I’ve come as a snail.” He nods at his girlfriend. “This is Michelle.”
[NB this works better in places where, as in the UK, it is pretty normal to refer to “me car”, “me girlfriend”, or indeed “ma car”, &c, rather than enunciating “my” clearly.]
And now for something completely different: A song published in 1600 written by Thomas Morley, here sung by Alfred Deller. https://youtu.be/xnB7T-UQ5x0
Only on CIDU could counter tenor Alfred Deller be ‘outed’ singing a song like that . . . I choked on the Smarties I’d just put in my mouth (Do you think HE knew what he was singing? I can’t believe he wouldn’t’ve known.)
“Trout Fishing in America” sounds like a pretty good guess. The tangled fishing line could represent the strange structure of the book. The only objection I see is that Caulfield usually goes as a character from a work of literature.
I’m guessing he’s Norman MacLean, the main character from (and author of) “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories,” published in 1976. (Or perhaps his brother Paul?)
I don’t know if the book is considered to be “great literature” – I never read it – however they did make us watch the movie in one of my high school English classes. My recollection of the film is that there was fishing and that I was extremely bored.
“The only objection I see is that Caulfield usually goes as a character from a work of literature.”
I was wondering if that was why he said “Sort of” in the first panel. Still going with “Trout fishing in America”. I had considered Scott’s “Tangled Web” but to go as a poetic phrase seemed a little obscure.
What the heck is Frazz dressed as?
I think Frazz is a penguin (bird+tux).
The Compleat Angler?
Kilgore Trout?
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon_Fishing_in_the_Yemen_(novel) – which became a film
Fly Fishing by JR Hartley?
I’m only joking. But the denizens here might like the story. The title started as a non-existent book asked for unsuccessfully by an elderly gentleman from several second-hand bookshops in a popular 80s TV commercial for BT’s phone directory, Yellow Pages. It only later became a “real” book.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._Hartley for the facts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2TilNclT8k for the actual ad – a bit lo-res, but you get the picture.
Welp, User MacUser has it.
You know, it really annoys me that Frazz is presumed to be so hip and above it all he has to be in on the joke; and he has to rub it in that he knows and everybody else doesn’t. Really pretentious and smarmy.
My problem with the first comic is that while Pigpen’s dust cloud and a tangled fishing line might look the same in a comic strip panel, there’s no way Miss Plainwell could confuse the two in person.
Speaking of Pigpen…
B.A.: But Miss Plainwell is also in a comic!
Confirmed.
All that setup and Frazz seems to be quoting but he’s actually paraphrasing: “When my father said it was an art that ended at two o’clock, he often added, “closer to twelve than to two,” meaning that the rod should be taken back only slightly farther than overhead (straight overhead being twelve o’clock).” Where’s an ellipsis when you need one? ;-)
@ Tim Shea – Frazz is not quoting, his paraphrase is intended as commentary about Caulfield’s early disappearance.