A surprisingly recent addition to the AAUGH.com Reference library is Get in Shape, Snoopy!, a book (well, really, a booklet; it is saddle-stitched, which is the fancy publishing term for held-together-by-staples-at-the-spine). This book, published by Golden Books as part of their Golden Little Look-Look Book series, focuses on peer pressure being used to get Snoopy to start getting some exercise, after which he tries various activities for exercise.

But it never touches on the true health concern for Snoopy, which is weight distribution. Really, in what sort of creature would it be considered healthy to have more than half of your mass above the collar line? I mean, his center of gravity has to be somewhere around his tongue. I’m not certain what sort of head-shrinking exercises are available (short of paying a nickel for psychiatric help, obviously), but it’s amazing that this canine is able to walk at all with a noggin like that, much less support himself fully ion his hind legs!

Golden Book published a number of Peanuts books around this period (this particular volume is from 1989), but I think this is the only one in the Little Look-Look series… and it’s just the sort of thing where I could go years not noticing that I don’t have it. Now, I need worry over it no longer.

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