# Lucy (Peanuts) quote re: statistics "I just now made them up" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 21, 2016, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucy-peanuts-quote-re-statistics-i-just-now-made-them-up/772662 "2016-11-21T17:50:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2016, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucy-peanuts-quote-re-statistics-i-just-now-made-them-up/772662/1 "2016-11-21T17:50:27Z")
Once again my google-fu is weak. I remember a Peanuts strip where Lucy starts quoting statistics (at Charlie Brown, IIRC) about women, including “90% of college graduates are women!” (Or similar) Charlie asks “where did you get these numbers” and she answers “I just now made them up.” Can someone in whom the (Internet) Force is strong find that strip for me? Thanks! NCUN ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2016, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucy-peanuts-quote-re-statistics-i-just-now-made-them-up/772662/2 "2016-11-21T18:13:57Z")
I recall one from long ago that had Lucy telling Linus a bunch of “little known facts” like, “Those are clouds. They make the wind blow.” When Charlie Brown asked her how she knew these little known facts, she whispered, “I make 'em up.” ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2016, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucy-peanuts-quote-re-statistics-i-just-now-made-them-up/772662/3 "2016-11-21T19:05:49Z")
[Is this the strip that \*\*Amateur Barbarian \*\*recalls?](http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/peanuts/images/d/d8/Pe550925.gif/revision/latest?cb=20130714192356) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2016, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucy-peanuts-quote-re-statistics-i-just-now-made-them-up/772662/4 "2016-11-21T19:09:36Z")
Almost impossible to tell, since that’s just a thumbnail and far too small to read the text. ---
**Author:** ![Kiber](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kiber/32/317_2.png) [@Kiber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiber)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2016, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucy-peanuts-quote-re-statistics-i-just-now-made-them-up/772662/5 "2016-11-21T19:14:06Z")
I think [this](http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1953/02/27) may be the one. From February of 1953. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2016, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucy-peanuts-quote-re-statistics-i-just-now-made-them-up/772662/6 "2016-11-21T19:58:39Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Almost impossible to tell, since that’s just a thumbnail and far too small to read the text. [How’s this?](http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1955/09/25) ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2016, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucy-peanuts-quote-re-statistics-i-just-now-made-them-up/772662/7 "2016-11-21T20:08:58Z")
The one I thought of [first appeared May 7, 1962](http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/2009/05/04), and dealt with Lucy and Schroeder. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2016, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucy-peanuts-quote-re-statistics-i-just-now-made-them-up/772662/8 "2016-11-21T20:23:13Z")
I think the Lucy based one that Casey shared is part of a sequence. I remember reading a collection when I was young, where Charlie Brown starts complaining that listening to Lucy’s ‘facts’ makes his stomach hurt, and he sits on the curb. Lucy then throws out something even more outlandish, and Linus tells Charlie to move over, that that one made his stomach hurt also. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2016, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucy-peanuts-quote-re-statistics-i-just-now-made-them-up/772662/9 "2016-11-21T20:38:39Z")
The strip that **Kiber** linked to seems the closest to the OP’s description, although it’s interesting that the sexes are reversed from what **NoCoolUserName** remembered. People forget (or never knew) that in the earliest days of the strip, Charlie Brown was a bit of a smart-ass, before his sad-sack persona emerged. The strip sequence of Lucy teaching Linus various scientific “facts” was sufficiently memorable to be the basis of a song in the musical _You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown_, called [“Little Known Facts”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Known_Facts). ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2016, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucy-peanuts-quote-re-statistics-i-just-now-made-them-up/772662/10 "2016-11-21T21:05:21Z")
> [@MrAtoz](#): > > The strip sequence of Lucy teaching Linus various scientific “facts” was sufficiently memorable to be the basis of a song in the musical _You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown_, called [“Little Known Facts”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Known_Facts). [This LP from '62](https://www.discogs.com/Kaye-Ballard-And-Arthur-Siegel-Peanuts/release/3850930) with Kaye Ballard and Arthur Siegel as Lucy & CB also riffs on those little known facts. IIRC, it even has the bit with the trees. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2016, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucy-peanuts-quote-re-statistics-i-just-now-made-them-up/772662/11 "2016-11-21T21:12:45Z")
Yes, that’s the strip I recall. I could tell even in the fuzzy thumbnail. ---
**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2016, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucy-peanuts-quote-re-statistics-i-just-now-made-them-up/772662/12 "2016-11-21T22:10:01Z")
Hmmm…a theme he has used more than once, clearly. But my memory is firm that it was Lucy and the statistics were about how great women are. My memory, as most know, has been faulty before this. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2016, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucy-peanuts-quote-re-statistics-i-just-now-made-them-up/772662/13 "2016-11-22T00:36:25Z")
> [@NoCoolUserName](#): > > Hmmm…a theme he has used more than once, clearly. But my memory is firm that it was Lucy and the statistics were about how great women are. > > My memory, as most know, has been faulty before this. Possible that your memory conflated one (or more) of the ones linked above with this one, in which Lucy insists that women are smarter than men (“scientific fact” without supporting stats): [http://cathiesflashportfolio.itgo.com/Peanuts\_Lucy\_Schroeder\_Storyboard.htm](http://cathiesflashportfolio.itgo.com/Peanuts_Lucy_Schroeder_Storyboard.htm) ---
**Author:** ![NoCoolAtAll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/898d66/32.png) [@NoCoolAtAll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolAtAll)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucy-peanuts-quote-re-statistics-i-just-now-made-them-up/772662/14 "2017-05-22T22:50:55Z")
That was awesome!!! Thanks 🙂 Now can y’all help me find the one -I- can’t find? It had Lucy give Linus a rubber band, and say ‘have fun’, or something like that, and then when he gt creative and did, she took it away and said “Not THAT much fun” or something like that- TIA ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucy-peanuts-quote-re-statistics-i-just-now-made-them-up/772662/15 "2017-05-22T22:54:24Z")
[Here you go](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-bPDNU3T4Bw4/TqiWXpVGf-I/AAAAAAAABCM/Tx2SpeusZcU/s500/Photo%252520Oct%25252026%25252C%2525202011%2525207%25253A22%252520PM.jpg). Have fun. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2017, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lucy-peanuts-quote-re-statistics-i-just-now-made-them-up/772662/16 "2017-05-23T01:12:01Z")
> [@Folacin](#): > > I think the Lucy based one that Casey shared is part of a sequence. I remember reading a collection when I was young, where Charlie Brown starts complaining that listening to Lucy’s ‘facts’ makes his stomach hurt, and he sits on the curb. > > Lucy then throws out something even more outlandish, and Linus tells Charlie to move over, that that one made his stomach hurt also. Is it the one with the “palm” tree?