On Apr 17, 1:15 am, Wesley McGee <[email protected]> wrote: > The interesting thing about this list/infographic is its skew to geek > pop-culture. (The second most interesting thing is how ubiquitous the > overly-designed infographic has become on the internet. They're the new > slideshow.) This a list of birthdays of various fictional characters from > recent TV, comics, movies and books.
One that jumped out at me was the claim that Snoopy's birthday was October 2 -- I'd like to know where that information came from; the "Peanuts" strip began on October 2, 1950, but I don't remember seeing anything that ties Snoopy's birthday to the anniversary of the strip. (Snoopy's first appearance in "Peanuts" was in the third strip, October 4 -- and prior to that, a proto-Snoopy made a few appearances in Charles Schulz's "Li'l Folks" panel.) Snoopy was seen celebrating at least two birthdays in the strip, on different dates: August 28, 1951: http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1951/08/28/ August 10, 1968: http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1968/08/10/ Of course, it can be argued that the action depicted in a comic strip is not necessarily taking place on the same day it was published (the action in "today's" strip is often continuous from "yesterday's"), but it seems from this evidence that Snoopy's birthday can be pinned to "sometime in August," rather than October 2nd. -- Jim Ellwanger <[email protected]> <http://www.ellwanger.tv> -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
