That’s a he’ll of a thing!

Sometimes I go looking for a picture of a Peanuts book item I once wrote about, only to discover that I wrote it so long ago that it was before the AAUGH Blog (well, then an email newsletter) had pictures. And since I wrote about this on May 2, 2001, I reckon it’s okay to bring it up again!

There’s a little problem with the book Dr. Snoopy’s Advice to Pet Owners (1993), and that is that on some of the pages, for some reason, the apostrophes are missing. This creates a curious effect on page 45, where Dr. Snoopy advises on to get a military man, because of what he’ll do for your dog.

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