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Kevin Hagerman
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Posted: 14 February 2009 at 7:49am \| IP Logged \| 1

Gotta go with The Black Cat. It flies in the face of how I feel about Wanda/redheads, but Felicia has more unrealized potential to me.

Saturday 2/14 toss-up: greater unrequited love - Betty for Archie or Charlie Brown for the little red-haired girl?

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Posted: 14 February 2009 at 7:59am \| IP Logged \| 2

Charlie Brown for the little red-haired girl?

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Michael Tortorice
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Posted: 14 February 2009 at 8:33am \| IP Logged \| 3

Charlie Brown and the little red-haired girl

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Posted: 14 February 2009 at 8:45am \| IP Logged \| 4

Charlie Brown for the little red-haired girl

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Posted: 14 February 2009 at 8:52am \| IP Logged \| 5

Charlie Brown for the little red-haired girl.

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Posted: 14 February 2009 at 8:53am \| IP Logged \| 6

Charlie Brown for the little red-haired girl

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Posted: 14 February 2009 at 9:08am \| IP Logged \| 7

I always felt bad for Charlie Brown, the little red headed girl seemed a little cruel, toying with his emotions. I always though he should go for Peppermint Patty. She seemed like a sure bet, but maybe not. She sent my gaydar off too, so she may have had a closeted crush on Marcie. Everyone knows that Betty is way better than Veronica and I think eventually Archie would realise that. So, Betty and Archie!

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Posted: 14 February 2009 at 10:39am \| IP Logged \| 8

Red Haired Little girl feels more monolithic. Somehow Schulz made that thread feel like one story. Betty and Archie have so many dates and ups as well as downs that I have the impression Betty's sort of "on the verge" of waking that boy up.

So I guess I go with Charlie Brown because it's MORE unrequited.

(To Wayne: I've had the opposite impression about Peppermint Patty's orientation. Maybe Marci seems a little gay to me, but Patty seems really into guys just without being into acting girly -- my impression).

edit: Schulltz into Schulz

Edited by Mark Haslett on 14 February 2009 at 10:42am

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Michael Huber
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Posted: 14 February 2009 at 10:51am \| IP Logged \| 9

This ones easy, I always vote for the red heads!

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Charlie Brown for the little red-haired girl

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Brian Hague
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Posted: 14 February 2009 at 11:13am \| IP Logged \| 11

Charlie Brown for the little red-headed girl. Unrequited love, after all, doesn't have to be good idea. In fact, it rarely is... Unrequited love is actually a prevalent theme throughout the Peanuts strip. Linus' love for Miss Othmar, Sally's love for Linus, Lucy's love for Schroeder, Patty's love for Chuck, possibly Marcie's love for Patty... Woodstock's love for his mom... Very Fruedian. And sort of ties in with the discussion over on the Battlestar Galactica thread... :~)

Betty actually gets a fair share of dates and dances with Archie. Her attentions towards him are hardly "unrequited." She just can't get Archie to shake his lustful infatuation with the dark, self-centered, competitive, and hyper-acquisitive Veronica. If there were no Betty to compete against, Veronica's interest in keeping Archie dangling wouldn't be as strong. I think Betty knows that she and Archie are likely to wind up with one another eventually, once Veronica gets out of Riverdale and begins to take advantage of all the opportunities the world has waiting for her. Betty just wants him now, she wants to win, and she needs Archie to not screw up so badly in the interim that he wrecks their future together.

Regarding the spelling of the name Schulz, I once was given a spelling test by a temp firm as part of a job interview. Not only did I find the specified number of misspelled words, but one of their examples talked about the "famous cartoonist Schultz," so I corrected that for them as well. I don't think it improved my score.

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Posted: 14 February 2009 at 1:34pm \| IP Logged \| 12

2/13 Black Cat by a nose over the Scarlet Witch

2/14 Charlie Brown for the little red-haired girl

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