972: November

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November
November marks the birthday of Charles Schulz, pioneer of tongue awareness.
Title text: November marks the birthday of Charles Schulz, pioneer of tongue awareness.

Explanation

This comic is an homage to Charles Schulz the creator of the comic Peanuts, who was born on November 26, 1922. Here's the comic in question by Schulz with Black Hat playing the Linus role, in a way and Cueball, the Lucy role. In both comics, when you start thinking about your tongue, you can't stop thinking about it. Similar in the way that if you start thinking about your breathing, you stop breathing unless you consciously think to breathe.

This link also indicates that Schulz's comic is not completely about tongue awareness, instead has deeper meaning about one's existence in the world.

Transcript

[Black Hat and Cueball sit in a room]
Black Hat: Did you know November is Tongue Awareness Month?
[Cueball is suddenly aware of his tongue]
[Cueball continues to be aware of their tongue]
[Cueball is *still* aware of their tongue]
Cueball: I hate you.
Black Hat: Enjoy the next four weeks.


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Discussion

What link is that second paragraph talking about? --Jimmy C (talk) 14:54, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

I re-added the link from the explanation originally posted at the blog. --Waldir (talk) 19:09, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

All subcutaneous nerves can feel their environment the same way our bodies can be heard, seen and smelt. Our sensory settings normally turn it into white noise for us so we automagically tune it out. Some people are born without any nerves and some never quite manage to ignore it all.

Mental process ditto. <hint>I suppose one day there could be a chart of the relatively little known illnesses (and the well known ones for that matter (e.g. tinnitus.))</hint> I used Google News BEFORE it was clickbait (talk) 18:02, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

Please justify the reason the entire peanuts comic is included in this explanation and not just a link to it. Otherwise I will be deleting it and providing a simple link and quick overview.Lackadaisical (talk) 12:46, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

It is more convenient. It's not like it is taking up any space. Beanie (talk) 10:50, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
I personally appreciated it, having come here mostly I understand the alt-text. Also, links are constantly breaking. 172.70.126.179 20:56, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

That peanuts comic sounds like a beginning of a Junji Ito manga 162.158.166.179 03:21, 12 January 2017 (UTC)