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From: shiue@h-sc1.UUCP (steve shiue)
Newsgroups: net.games.trivia,net.jokes
Subject: Meta-humor in Charles Schulz's Peanuts
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Date: Mon, 2-Dec-85 16:58:15 EST
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	I've noticed that a recent development in net.tv is references
to meta-humor that appears in the show "Moonlighting".  Some of my
favorite meta-humor is that which appears in comic strips, when the
artists get up the courage to take a risk with some unconventional
humor.  An example is an old Peanuts strip that I came across in one of
the compilation books, in which Charlie Brown and Lucy are discussing
(or rather, Lucy is holding forth about) what Lucy's eyes resemble.  In
the last panel, Charlie Brown manages to sneak a word in edgewise, and
says, completely deadpan:  "They remind ME [my emphasis] of two dots of
india ink."

		-Steve Shiue

"I was walking in the forest, and a tree fell down right in front of
me, and I didn't hear anything."
	-Steven Wright