Peanuts by Charles Schulz for November 30, 2023

Linus! Tsk, tsk!

I resemble that remark!

I remember when I was around 10 (about the time this strip came out), I thought 63 was ancient as well. Heck, I thought anyone over 35 was really old. Strange how time can change one’s perspective. Of course, back then summers lasted forever (what happened?!?) and now the seasons (and years) go by in a blink of an eye.

Wow Linus that’s brutal

Time keeps flowing like a river to the sea. Allen Parsons project.

According to that tale you’re actually your own age until you’re 30, the number of years allotted to humans. All the years after that are the ones the donkey, the camel, the dog and the monkey didn’t want.

How does Linus know how old his grandfather is? Usually the adults don’t tell, unless the year of birth is on a burial plot.

Wow! Linus’ grandfather’s ears must be burning.

Ouch!

To quote Jack Weinberg: Don’t trust anyone over 30.

Boy, it’s been a long time since I trusted myself.

I asked a kid what she was majoring in. I was not sure if it was high school or college. It turns out she is my grandchild’s kindergarten teacher. Everyone who is not old seems like a kid to me.

At first I thought that the little guy was somehow putting down his grandfather. But, then I realized that he was exalting his grand who was once only a mere human.

Linus also once asked “1819! Were there PEOPLE, then?” At age 8, 63 looks OLD, and in 1978, it was. People often died in their late fifties—we knew several. We have better medical care for heart and cancer diseases now.

I suppose Linus never liked hearing the old Beatles’ song, “Will You Still Need Me, Will You Still Feed Me – When I’m Sixty-four?”

Used to work with elementary school kids and came to realize they had three age groups: kid, teenager, and old.

At some point, I started seeing my age in terms of hockey. O-30 was the first period, 31-60 was the second period, and 61-90 … oh geez, I’m in the third period! (But I’m not in overtime, so there’s that).

Someday you’ll be singing, “He’s Gone”

If you want to feel old, look back. If you want to feel alive, look forward.

He once was a human, but NOW he’s a god!

60 is the new …nah, it’s still old.

My grandad lived to be 75, at least I think he did.

Let’s see, when I was born, Truman was president (he was in the beginning of his second term), gasoline was 26 cents a gallon (17 cents in some areas), a new car cost about $450, those who had TVs watched “The Life of Riley” and “The Lone Ranger,” Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Abbott and Costello were the biggest names in Hollywood, the New York Yankees won the World Series over the Brooklyn Dodgers (8 teams in each league), you could send a letter for 3 cents …

Those were the good old days or were they?

We also had separate but equal schools, poll taxes and literacy tests, segregated lunch counters and bus terminals, no women in the workforce (once they got married, they were expected to stop sitting on the boss’ lap and quit so as to have babies and take care of the “head of household.”), polio, smallpox, Mao Tse Tung took over China, The Soviet Union got the bomb …

Think about this when you pine for the “Good Old Days.”

Especially if he’s a republican. Badum-tsh.

When do we stop being human beings?!

I told my mom at her 80th Bday, that you’re really not old until you turn 90.

Same for me … in fifth grade (1975), our math teacher asked us to calculate how old we’d be 2000. At the time, 10-year-old me couldn’t fathom that I’d ever actually be 35!

I’m 69 and I’m still human!

“Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m…”

As a 63 year old, I resemble that remark

Almost exactly as old as Peanuts, minus 1 day.

It happens to be my 63rd birthday today. I don’t have any grandchildren though. At least, not yet. Does that mean I’m still human?

At 22, when this strip first appeared, I would have thought it was really funny. Now, I just think it’s hilarious — with a much better basis for the opinion!

63? He’s just a kid.

A mere three years older than me. Thanks, Linus

It’s weird being the same age as old people.

April 11, 2029…if I’m still around then…

How old is Snoopy in dog years?

63 use to be like going to NY to CA on foot. Now it’s towards the end of your block

i was 63 once…long long ago in a land far far away

I’m 64, and I don’t know how I feel being old enough to be Linus’ grandpa since I’ve been reading this strip since childhood.

This is rather unusual for Linus because of his wisdom. He is still one of my favorites, though!

Long, long ago (63 plus a decade) and in a galaxy far, far away (born in CA, now in FL) a lad first saw the light of day . . .

He must think that at 63 we morph from being humans to walking corpses, or extras for a zombie movie

That’s the age I first became a grandfather.

You are not getting “old”. You are getting “older”, as is everybody, even the kids!

As a 63 year old, I think Linus was oddly specific on that number. Imagine his opinion on a 81 year old POTUS running for another term.

what does that make me? …a fossil I guess

I always say that the first 60 years were awesome, I can’t wait to how the second 60 go.

Now that I’m ‘up-there’ myself, I’ll see that someone I knew passed at 65 or 70, and I think, " Dang, they were young!"

What is 73 then?……

13-year-old appearing in juvenile court for vandalizing an elderly neighbor’s porch. Judge “Did you know he was elderly” Kid: ’yeaaahhh" Judge “well how old did you think he was?” Kid: “REALLY old, um, like, 40”

How did all the people who used to be the same age as me get to be so old?

Hey now, Linus!

Until our dad died last year at 74 years old, my youngest brother loved to joke about him being older than dirt and riding dinosaurs.

63 is younger than it used to be.