UPDATE: It’s 2011! Click HERE to read the story.
New Year’s Day is just around the corner. After a packed year of bailouts, oil spills, floods, storms, and earthquakes, it’s always nice to go back to the world of Charlie Brown and his Peanuts friends.
As 2010 slips by, the start of 2011 deserves some nice quotes from Happy New Year, Charlie Brown!, the 1986 Charlie Brown movie.
1.
Peppermint Patty: It’s been a great year, Chuck. You'll have to admit that. What you do think, Chuck, would be good rules for living in the New Year?
Charlie Brown: Keep the ball low, don’t leave your crayons in the sun, use dental floss every day, don’t spill the shoe polish, always knock before entering, don’t let the ants get in the sugar, never volunteer to be a program chairman, always get your first serve in, and feed your dog whenever he’s hungry.
Peppermint Patty: Will those rules give me a better life, Chuck?
Charlie Brown: The better life and a fat dog.
2.
Peppermint Patty: Have you made any New Year’s resolutions, Chuck?
Charlie Brown: Yes. You know how I always dread the whole year? Well, this time I’m only going to dread one day at a time.
3.
Linus van Pelt: Happy New Year, Charlie Brown.
4.
Charlie Brown: [on New Year’s Eve] Tomorrow night’s party. The Little Red-Haired Girl never answered my letter.
Charlie Brown: What a way to start a new year. Tomorrow night, millions of people will be going to parties and dressing up. Some are even ready a day ahead of time.
5.
Sally Brown: If you don’t ask me to the party, I'll just go with someone else.
Linus van Pelt: Good. Go with someone else.
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