{"id":1377,"date":"2011-02-14T08:29:28","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T15:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=1377"},"modified":"2011-02-14T08:29:28","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T15:29:28","slug":"the-peanuts-kiss-countdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/the-peanuts-kiss-countdown\/","title":{"rendered":"The Peanuts kiss countdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreporter.com\/index.php\/index\/fff_results_post_243_mwah\/\">another website<\/a>, they were polling people to name the 5 greatest kisses in comics history &#8211; and being the man that I am, all of the good kisses which came to mind were from Peanuts (sounds of shocked surprise fill the room). So for Valentine&#8217;s Day, I thought I&#8217;d share them with you here, and this time I&#8217;ve arranged them to build to the greatest kiss in all of comicsdom.<br \/>\n5. This would seem to be the original basis for the most famous kiss in Peanutsdom &#8211; although since that was in a TV special (<em>A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/em>), it doesn&#8217;t qualify for the list.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Peanuts\" href=\"http:\/\/comics.com\/peanuts\/1958-09-07\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/c0389161.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com\/dyn\/str_strip\/240521.full.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Peanuts\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n4. A special kiss is this one, as it&#8217;s not a kiss of romance, but a kiss of sheer joy:<br \/>\n<a title=\"Peanuts\" href=\"http:\/\/comics.com\/peanuts\/1956-10-12\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/c0389161.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com\/dyn\/str_strip\/239829.full.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Peanuts\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n3. Conspiratorial kissing:<br \/>\n<a title=\"Peanuts\" href=\"http:\/\/comics.com\/peanuts\/1959-10-25\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/c0389161.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com\/dyn\/str_strip\/240932.full.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Peanuts\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n2. This one wins for the sheer awesome nature of the kiss, but loses a few points for the kiss itself being off-panel:<br \/>\n<a title=\"Peanuts\" href=\"http:\/\/comics.com\/peanuts\/1990-08-10\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/c0389161.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com\/dyn\/str_strip\/252123.full.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Peanuts\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n1. So here we are, at the most wonderful Peanuts kiss of all time &#8211; and until I was organizing the list, I didn&#8217;t even realize that it was originally a Valentine&#8217;s Day (1967) strip!<br \/>\n<a title=\"Peanuts\" href=\"http:\/\/comics.com\/peanuts\/1967-02-14\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/c0389161.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com\/dyn\/str_strip\/243570.full.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Peanuts\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">VICTORY THROUGH KISSING!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at another website, they were polling people to name the 5 greatest kisses in comics history &#8211; and being the man that I am, all of the good kisses which came to mind were from Peanuts (sounds of shocked surprise fill the room). 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