from Earth: A Field Guide for Alien Species Visiting the Blue Planet

SNOOPY: Snoopy is a cartoon beagle (Canis familiaris) owned by the depressive earth child Charlie Brown, believed to be patterned after the depressive earth artist Charles Monroe Schulz (November 26, 1922 – February 12, 2000). Admire Snoopy. Some appropriate adjectives to apply to Snoopy would be "cute" or "funny" or "rockin'" or even "gay." Inappropriate adjectives to apply to Snoopy would be "edible" or "bisexual" or "flammable" or "erotic" (although some or all of these things may be true). Imitate Snoopy for an approximation of human kindness, either his dancing or his crying or his sleeping on top of his doghouse. Inappropriate or suspicious imitations would be holding a dog dish in one's mouth or chasing cats. Consult the back of the book for a Peanuts genealogy and family trees. Parents and educators are not very important in the PEANUTS universe and by some strange coincidence speak the same language that Hooxtians of Lesser Neruthusa speak. Humans find this funny. We have no idea how Schulz intercepted the Hooxtian Lesser Nerusthusan dialect but there is a distinct possibility he was a Fellow Traveler. Collect Snoopy icons and merchandise for additional terrestrial verisimilitude. Snoopy is considered appropriate for informal colloquial and even erotic play with human lovers but is inappropriate in virtually all corporate milieux (see list at back for Exceptionally Juvenile and/or Neotenous Corporations). PEANUTS is sometimes co-opted by Christian militants and apologists in which case Snoopy is identified with the Christ figure. Be particularly careful around humans equating Snoopy with Christ, as the situation is rife for confrontation. Here is a sample conversation involving the Snoopy archetype to assist you in seeing the archetype in practical and orthodox usage.

HUMAN: Whatcha doin?

VISITANT: Not much. You?

HUMAN: Oh, I just got my period (q.v.). It's a drag.

VISITANT: Snoopy is gay.

HUMAN: I know!

VISITANT: I am chillin like a villain.

HUMAN: You are! You are a fine human.

VISITANT: Thanks! You are very human too!