"I'm sure Linus would find other reasons to hate me, if not that."
no doubt. A record of Linus' quirky antics would make a funny book.
And I saw that Nathan Hale quote written like this once:
"I only regret that I have but one * for my country"
took me a while to figure out what the hell the '*' meant... and then the 'fridge moment' when the light came on.
(As I recall, the '*' quote was on a 'Wretched Mess' calendar, which I don't think still exists in live print, but I google'd and saw a blog that mentioned it, and a books page for the author "Milford Stanley Poltroon" that had a few books about fishing with Monty-Python-worthy titles like 'The Happy Fish Hooker')