Thu 21 Feb 2008

Thursday Thirteen #13: Confessions

Posted in Thursday Thirteen at 0:05

The local newspaper is one of the few that has carried the comic strip Peanuts since the very beginning in 1950. Even after the death of creator Charles Schulz in 2000, the paper has continued to publish daily and Sunday strips from the syndicate. The Sunday strips are from 1961, and even though the everyday situations and the humor aren’t out of date, the props Schulz drew — like the wood-cabinet televisions — remind you that you’re reading and enjoying a strip that was drawn 47 years ago.

Schulz licensed Snoopy, Charlie Brown, and the rest of his characters for commercials and made millions of dollars. He wasn’t the first to have his cartoons sell products; among his predecessors, Percy Crosby did the same with his creation, Skippy.

At the site devoted to Skippy and Crosby is an ad Crosby himself did for Libby’s tomato juice, and it included his answers to a game called Confessions. I can’t find a trace of that game anywhere today, but I’ll take those questions (and add another to make 13) and answer them some 70 years after they appeared in the ad.

  1. My best virtue: patience when patience is needed
  2. My worst fault: patience when action is needed
  3. The virtue I admire most in women: trustworthiness
  4. The virtue I admire most in men: trustworthiness
  5. My favorite actress: Judi Dench
  6. My chief hobby: Blogging is fun, but I could give up blogging a lot easier than sim league baseball.
  7. My favorite song: Just one? These days, I’m humming this one an awful lot…
  8. My favorite book: Ball Four has meant the most.
  9. My pet vanity: I’m casual almost everywhere else, but I won’t wear jeans to Borgata.
  10. My favorite food: Pizza… there was a little place in New Jersey that made the best I ever had. Gone, but not forgotten.
  11. My favorite drink (hard): Yuengling Lager reminds me of beer I had in Austria. Goes down like water if I’m not careful.
  12. My favorite food drink: Chocolate milk (you were expecting maybe tomato juice?)
  13. My favorite snack: Milk chocolate covered almonds… sure, a moment on the lips, forever on the hips (or in my case, the belly), but ah, what a moment it is…

6 Comments

  1. Lady Rose said,

    Thu 21 Feb 2008 at 5:02

    Happy TT13 I posted my first tt13, it’s is about blogging

  2. -- a metamorphoself of gabrielle said,

    Thu 21 Feb 2008 at 10:58

    Thursday Thirteen: I Love You, Bodoh…

    Valentine’s Day is over, but since I haven’t blogged it yet, I’d like to share some details about my boyfriend and hope that’s fine with all the thirteeners

    His name is A.A.
    He is 6 years younger than me, born in April 23. …

  3. Daisy said,

    Thu 21 Feb 2008 at 12:11

    A few years ago my Mommie got some Mexican chocolate covered almonds that were first coated with a spicy pepper mixture. She said it was very, very, very delicious, but she has not been able to find them since.

  4. Gailann said,

    Thu 21 Feb 2008 at 12:37

    1961 was 47 years ago??? Oh Lord, now I feel ancient! *L* (And you may have perhaps the cutest favicon of all time.)

  5. Icon BB said,

    Thu 21 Feb 2008 at 12:53

    ooo- chocolate covered almonds sound heavenly! Number 12 was my favorite answer.

    Yes i agree with Gailann, you do have a cute favorite icon~\!

  6. Kat C. said,

    Fri 22 Feb 2008 at 13:28

    That is an awesome list. I like your favorite snack too!