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[vero2006]

Hi people! could someone explain to me why the cartoon strip Peanuts is called as such? Does it allude to "a small sum of money, so small that it's not worth considering"? Thanks in advance!

[Jintii]

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanuts_(comic_strip):

Peanuts had its origin in Li'l Folks, a weekly panel comic that appeared ... from 1947 to 1949. When his work was picked up by United Feature Syndicate, they decided to go for the new comic strip he had been working on [instead of the panel comic].... Maybe the name would have been the same, though, had it been less close to the names of two other comics of the time: Al Capp's Li'l Abner and a now-forgotten strip entitled Little Folks. To avoid confusion the syndicate settled on the name "Peanuts", a title Schulz himself disliked. In a 1987 interview, Schulz said "It's totally ridiculous, has no meaning, is simply confusing, and has no dignity�and I think my humor has dignity".

I hope that helps.