Peanuts from 1964

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[rj_lucas]

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Like the old adage says, it's funny because it's true...

Rick
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[sox83cubs84]

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This 1964 flashback is cool. If this strip were drawn late in Charles Schulz's life, Charlie Brown would also be buying a Joe Shlabotnik autograph ticket at a card show.

Dave Miedema

[frikativ54]

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And here I thought you were talking about actual peanuts. I was going to suggest that you throw them to the squirrels.

[sammy]

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The story of life.

Thanks Joel.

[godwulf]

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If this strip were drawn late in Charles Schulz's life, Charlie Brown would also be buying a Joe Shlabotnik autograph ticket at a card show.

That, and his five bucks would only be buying him a pack or two of cards.

Unless you're really hot on finding one of those "memorabilia" cards, I don't understand why anyone buys those packs now, as expensive as they are. I see dealers at the local card show selling the commons 15 for a buck, and, hey, you can even pick out the cards you actually want, instead of buying a pig in a poke.

It was different back in the day (and '64 was about the time that I was buying packs) when a pack was 5 or 10 cents, no one knew what a card show was, and Topps didn't sell factory sets, as far as I know.

When I first read the title of the thread, I, too, thought somebody was talking about some very old peanuts. ("Game-used", no doubt.) Somewhere around here, I have a container of sunflower seeds in the shape of a Louisville Slugger that they came out with a few years ago - anybody else buy one of those? I'd imagine that those are already on their way to being petrified or ossified, or whatever seeds do after so long. And a couple of sealed boxes of "Big Unit" breakfast cereal. And a box of Frosted Flakes from Puerto Rico with a picture on the front of Tony the Tiger with his arm around Carlos Baerga, which I got Baerga to sign.

What...derail the thread...me?

[bronx_burner]

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This 1964 flashback is cool. If this strip were drawn late in Charles Schulz's life, Charlie Brown would also be buying a Joe Shlabotnik autograph ticket at a card show.

Dave Miedema

There is absolutely a daily strip of just that event. I saved it but it might be a task finding it. I'd say it was from the late 80s. The characters standing on line talking about who was at the show and what they each cost with the ending shot of Charlie Brown saying he got Joe Shlabotniks autograph and gave Charlie Brown a dollar.

[trsent]

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There is absolutely a daily strip of just that event. I saved it but it might be a task finding it. I'd say it was from the late 80s. The characters standing on line talking about who was at the show and what they each cost with the ending shot of Charlie Brown saying he got Joe Shlabotniks autograph and gave Charlie Brown a dollar.

That would be priceless if you found it.

Poor 'ole Charlie Brown, the players feel so sorry for him they give him money!

[godwulf]

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My all-time favorite Peanuts strip:

Lucy is playing the outfield, and whiffs on a fly ball.

Charlie Brown: "You're the worst player in the history of the game. I don't know why I keep you on the team." Walks away.

Lucy: "Life is full of mysteries!"

[russyurk]

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Too funny....way back in high school I photo copied this exact strip out of a peanuts paperback and had it hanging in my room. I felt his pain.

[camarokids]

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Before clicking on the thread, I originally thought someone bought a collectible that had peanuts from 1964 in it.

My son was watching SpongeBob before school last week and the episode was very similar.

SpongeBob bought every pack in the display that he had enough money for, trying to score a $5000.00 card. Squidward comes up after, buys the last pack and scores the rare card.

[godwulf]

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I'm beginning to think that maybe the whole "memorabilia" card thing has reached its nadir.

Leaf has a new "celebrity" set - "Leaf Pop Century" - for 2011, and the ultimate chase card in this set - 1/1, of course - is some kind of a fold-out card that contains a cut auto of JFK, a cut auto of Lee Harvey Oswald (!), and a swatch from the limo JFK was riding in when he was shot.

Really.

[godwulf]

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Before clicking on the thread, I originally thought someone bought a collectible that had peanuts from 1964 in it.

I think we all know somebody who, on a dare, would actually eat one of those peanuts, too.

I know I'm not the only one on this board who, at some point in the last ten years, was opening up a bunch of wax packs from 1988-91, and decided to see how that gum tasted.

[gingi79]

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I think we all know somebody who, on a dare, would actually eat one of those peanuts, too.

I know I'm not the only one on this board who, at some point in the last ten years, was opening up a bunch of wax packs from 1988-91, and decided to see how that gum tasted.

I have totally done that! Not harmful, sugar and gum paste don't ever actually go bad. It splinters and become dozens of pieces of gum that doesn't recombine.

Now that you have no more respect for me, I bid you adieu.

[sox83cubs84]

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I know I'm not the only one on this board who, at some point in the last ten years, was opening up a bunch of wax packs from 1988-91, and decided to see how that gum tasted.

You're not.

Back in the early 1990s, at a Cincinnati show, my wife, Shirley, took in over $50 in five dollar wagers from other dealers who didn't think she could eat 1970s pack gome without hurling it up.

We challenged Mr. Mint to a $100 bet on a stick of gum from a 1954 Bowman pack from his then just-discovered find. He wouldn't wager.

Dave Miedema