UPBEAT TIMES, INC. • October 2017 • 5 A little History...& More! ‘Just Chillin’


Santa Rosa, CA. ~ All you need to do, if you’re feeling down or blue is think about Charlie Brown and Sparky’s special gang of friends. “Sparky,” of course, is Santa Rosa’s hero: Charles Monroe Schulz, no doubt one of the world’s most popular cartoonists. For a special, pre-


Halloween family treat, consider visit- ing the absolutely marvelous Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Cen- ter, a 27,000 square foot state-of-the-art building at 2301 Har- die’s Lane in Santa Rosa. Even the gardens surround- ing it have a “Snoopy Labyrinth” and a “Kite Eating Tree.”


the huge ceramic tile mural wall is comprised of 3,588 Peanuts comic strips. Who could ever forget Linus in


the patch waiting for Te Great Pumpkin in Schulz’s 1966 TV film “It’s Te Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!” By the way, not hard to get a copy, if you want to own one. Charlie Brown and his illustrious gang all are out celebrating Hallow- een while a wistful Linus waits and waits for something quite elusively magical. For downright goofy Hal- loween “double-talk,” here are some “golden-oldies”—but still amusing,


“DID YOU KNOW THAT….”


1. It is impossible to lick your elbow.


2. A crocodile can’t stick its tongue out.


3. A shrimp’s heart is in its head. 4. People say “Bless you” when you sneeze because when you sneeze, you’re heart stops for a millisecond.


5. A study that ran for 80 years proved that not a single one of 200,000 ostriches studied ever buried its head in sand. 6. Physically, pigs can’t look up into the sky.


7. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.


8. By law, every child in primary school in Belgium has to take


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harmonica lessons.


9. Toughest tongue twister in English is: “The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick.” 10. Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations—im- plemented on July 16, 1969—makes it


illegal for U. S.


citizens to have any contact with extra- terrestrials or their vehicles. 11. What if my dog only brings back my ball because he thinks I like throwing it?


12. Why is the letter “W” in English called


double “U”? Shouldn’t it be called double “V”?


Inside,


13. The word “swims” upside- down is still “swims.” 14. Many animals probably need glasses, but nobody


knows it.


15. Money talks, they say. But, all mine ever says is good- bye.


16. Dust is Mud--with the juice squeezed out.


17. Handkerchief is “Cold Stor age.”


18. A Secret is a story you tell to one person at a time.


19. Dolphins are so smart they teach people how to throw them fish each day.


20. A Yawn is an honest opinion openly expressed.


If you are truly inspired by helping to paint faces and cakes for Hal- loween and feel that you have gen- erally neglected your artistic side, take heart.


Science news tells us


that many more medical schools are requiring medical students to actually paint and to take arts and humanities studies. Te important, and valid, reason-


ing is that the result of such stud- ies proves that people who study art history, and hands-on creative art, turn out to increase their un- derstanding of their future patients from a far greater, more compas- sionate view.


Painting, for exam-


ple, requires close observation and awareness, using methods of think- ing that are processed very differ- ently from the rigorous medical studies—of cadavers, for example. If you pick up a paint brush and apply it to canvas or paper, it is al- most an activity like making music. You create what was not “there” be- fore—in color, or in sound. Hard to do without suddenly realizing that new emotions, new very sat- isfying feelings for having created something all your own are flowing through you. Now, that’s a magical pumpkinish kind of reward. Feel- ing good. Cooking is a creative art too. Te


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A motorcycle patrolman was rushed to the hospital with an inflamed appendix. The doctors operated and ad- vised him that all was well. However, the patrolman kept feeling something pulling at the hairs on his chest. Worried that it might be a second surgery the doctors hadn’t told him about, he finally got enough energy to pull his hospital gown down enough so he could look at what was making him so uncomfortable.


Taped firmly across his hairy chest were three wide strips of adhesive tape, the kind that doesn’t come off easily. Written in large black letters was the sentence: “Get well quick ...from the nurse you gave a ticket to last week.”


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