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1. Identify the speakers of the following memorable lines, and where
indicated, answer the additional question.
a. I’m not your sweet babboo!
[Linus]
(2/14/92)
b. Stop snowing on my secretary!
[Snoopy]
(12/12/71)
c. It’s great to be a super star…sort of…
[Snoopy]
(8/2/69)
(What award had he won?)
[Rookie of the Year]
(6/15/69)
d. My anxieties have anxieties.
[Charlie Brown]
(11/9/68)
e. Could you be more pacific?
[Peppermint Patty]
(9/7/88)
(About what?)
[Which ocean they were studying]
(9/7/88)
f. Summers always fly…winters walk!
[Linus]
(8/31/76)
g. It’s hard work being bitter.
[Lucy]
(8/5/72)
(About what?)
[Being kicked off Charlie Brown’s baseball team]
(8/3/72)
h. Talk is cheep.
[Snoopy]
(12/11/86)
i. Thank goodness for people!
[Snoopy]
(11/19/59)
j. Don’t be sad, flying ace.
[Marcie]
(5/3/88)
(About what?)
[Snoopy’s birthday cake being shot to pieces by the Red Baron]
(5/3/88)
k. There goes our shutout!
[Schroeder]
(8/15/52)
2. Again, identify the speakers. Also state the original famous saying
on which these puns are based.
a. Speak softly, and carry a beagle.
[Sally; Speak softly, and carry a big stick]
(8/7/74)
b. The beagle has landed!
[Snoopy; The Eagle has landed]
(8/9/77)
c. A smile makes a lousy umbrella.
[Linus; Let a smile be your umbrella]
(6/27/67)
d. And Woodstock in a birch tree!
[Snoopy; …and a partridge in a pear tree]
(12/25/78)
3. “If beagles could fly…” Then what?
[The world would be a better place: beagles could swoop down on cats
and boot ’em over the fence]
(9/27/87)
4. Who was the April Fool?
[Snoopy]
(4/1/79)
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