Peanuts to Peanuts

persontopersonThe mail carrier has just brought me my latest eBay purchase, Happy Birthday Person to Person. For those of you less than about half a century old, “person-to-person” is an old telephone term. You could either call “station-to-station”, which basically means that you get charged for the call when anyone answers the phone, or “person-to-person”, where you get charged a higher price, but only once you reach the specific individual you were trying to call.

In this little 4″ x 5.5″ book from 1972, part of the Hallmark “Thoughtfulness Library” series of basically hard-cover greeting cards, Charlie Brown gets a phone call from someone who tells him he’s wonderful and witty and charming and… SPOILER ALERT … it turns out the call isn’t for him, it’s for you!

I kinda like this cute little books. I kind of wish they were still around for their original use. And still cost $1.

Share the news!
New releases
Crochety Peanuts, sticky Peanuts

I’m trying to catch up on my stray books here, but there’s one that I had a problem with when I first went to take care of it, and that problem was… it didn’t seem to exist. I mean, I had a copy of it, because my wife stumbled across …

Uncategorized
Peanuts Origami

A recent addition to the AAUGH.com Reference Library is スヌーピー折り紙, a book of Peanuts origami projects. However, achieving hte results they show takes more than folding and connecting pieces of paper, as they want you to add faces and other markings to the pieces, which means you’ll have channel your …

Uncategorized
A thing that might have been

In 1958, the vocal jazz/pop band The Hi-Lo’s were riding high. Having released their first album in 1954, they were already working on their eighth… and they wanted to name it after a Peanuts book. As the Washington D.C. newspaper The Sunday Star reported, they were floating the idea of …