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Did we have 'Security Blankets' Before Linus?
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<blockquote data-quote="Old Man Jingles" data-source="post: 3817630" data-attributes="member: 18222"><p>Is Charles Schultz to blame for all the silliness on college campuses these days?</p><p>Twenty year olds still clutching to their security blanket.</p><p></p><p><em>In the American cartoon strip Peanuts, creator Charles M. Schulz's character Linus van Pelt carries around a blanket wherever he goes for comfort. Today, we refer to such an object as a "<a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/security%20blanket" target="_blank">security blanket</a>." The emergence of that sense of the term is contemporaneous with the first appearance of Linus with his blanket.</em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Old Man Jingles, post: 3817630, member: 18222"] Is Charles Schultz to blame for all the silliness on college campuses these days? Twenty year olds still clutching to their security blanket. [I]In the American cartoon strip Peanuts, creator Charles M. Schulz's character Linus van Pelt carries around a blanket wherever he goes for comfort. Today, we refer to such an object as a "[URL='https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/security%20blanket']security blanket[/URL]." The emergence of that sense of the term is contemporaneous with the first appearance of Linus with his blanket.[/I] [/QUOTE]
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