What’s slightly amusing me at the moment

Peanuts buffs are likely aware of Creative Associates, which is the Charles Schulz studio operation that generates material and approves licensed goods. I’ve only just now for the first time heard about Creative Associates International., an unrelated global services organization that has sometimes been accused of being a CIA front.

So let me make this perfectly clear: Charles M. Schulz Creative Associates is not the CIA. The CIA is a rather snoopy organization, while Creative Associates is, rather, a Snoopy organization.

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