What happens when fun is illegal

Back in 1975, the Department of Commerce put out a booklet called The American Economic System… and Your Part In It. It used a number of Peanuts illustrations along with its text to help explain the economy. Now, materials produced by employees of the US government as part of their work are automatically in the public domain, but the Peanuts work is not. That’s why you can now go here and download the (badly scanned) booklet… with all the pictures removed. Now that’s not very fun, is it?

(If you want to see one panel of art from the book, you can read the write-up I did a decade back.)

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Wheelnuts

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Japanese stocking

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Encyclopedia Brown has met his match

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