Tonight we had leftover salad with fennel. Good salad. I forgot to bring over a fork and my wife made a joke about eating salad like Snoopy.
Of course this sent me to peanuts-search.com to search for "salad," and as one might expect, there were a bunch of hits. One of them led me to a joke about Snoopy's wedding - wait, Snoopy got married?
OK, before you go further, read the August 1977 Peanuts strips in their entirety. It won't take long. Snoopy is a bad watchdog, Charlie Brown somehow ends up taking Snoopy's place guarding Peppermint Patty's house (!), Snoopy meets a brown-eyed beagle and falls in loooove, and then it gets even weirder.
Linus prepares a sermon based on Genesis 34:9, the innocuous-sounding:
Make marriages with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.
But of course Genesis 34 is the chapter where Jacob's daughter Dinah gets raped in their new homeland, Shechem the prince/rapist says he's in love and wants to get married, and Simeon and Levi say, oh, no big deal bro, glad you're in love, but maybe have all of your dudes get circumcised before you get married and our families start hanging out together? Rapist says, oh, sure, anything for love, and then when all the gentlemen are laid up, Simeon and Levi go out and slaughter all the males, and then the other brothers plunder the city. Ta-da! Of course this is dropped casually into a story about dogs getting married. I love it.
Also, August 1977 features a rare Charles Schulz misspelling. It's got it all!
