# Peanuts Peppermint Patty cartoon from before 1980

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 3, 2017, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanuts-peppermint-patty-cartoon-from-before-1980/783674 "2017-04-03T19:09:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2017, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanuts-peppermint-patty-cartoon-from-before-1980/783674/21 "2017-04-03T23:59:31Z")

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> [@Fenris](#):
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> Since the OP specified “book” were you actually confused by the term “cartoon”?
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> While not accurate it seems perfectly comprehensible to me.
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> What confused you so much about the term “cartoon” given that the context was “Peanuts cartoon book I read prob before 1982 & maybe even 1980. In these strips,”

Some children’s books are coupled with dvds(and even vhs tapes in earlier years) as a bonus… I was just looking for a little clarification.

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**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:** [April 4, 2017, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanuts-peppermint-patty-cartoon-from-before-1980/783674/22 "2017-04-04T01:06:39Z")

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> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#):
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> Are you sure that wasn’t Peggy Fleming?

No, I dimly recall the Peggy Fleming one but I knew who she was. Keeler, not so much. Orr and Keeler were the two I remember best.

I did not remember the Mama Cass strip, but I doubt I would’ve known who she was either.

Thanks skywatcher for digging the Keeler strip up, and kunilou for the pic of the legs!

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**Author:** ![chorpler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chorpler/32/2888_2.png) [@chorpler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chorpler)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2017, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanuts-peppermint-patty-cartoon-from-before-1980/783674/23 "2017-04-05T11:38:30Z")

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I remember reading those strips in my huge collection of Peanuts paperbacks\* as a kid, and not knowing who any of the people were, but always laughing anyway because of the reactions of everyone Peppermint Patty was talking to (“xxxxx xxxxx legs?”).

\*Which I just got rid of a few days ago because I realized I didn’t need them anymore now that all of the “Complete Peanuts” books are out. Still made me sad, though.

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**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2017, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanuts-peppermint-patty-cartoon-from-before-1980/783674/24 "2017-04-05T19:27:47Z")

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Peppermint Pattie keeps telling Marci to stop calling her “Sir”

I wonder if that was foundation of “Don’t Call me Shirley” one-liner.

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**Author:** ![caligulathegod](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caligulathegod/32/9685_2.png) [@caligulathegod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caligulathegod)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peanuts-peppermint-patty-cartoon-from-before-1980/783674/25 "2017-04-08T04:18:05Z")

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Costco has some hardcover compilations of the complete daily strips from the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s for $25 each. Much cheaper than the Fantagraphics books, which are about that price for 2 years per volume.

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