You are a young cartoon writer, starting your career after returning from World War II.
You don't know it, but you are going to gross over 1 billion dollars from your cartoons, during the next 1/2 century.
You start off with a fight with the syndicate, and cannot get this satirical cartoon printed.
So, over the next 50 years, you get even by publishing every Thanksgiving the famous gag between Lucy and Charlie Brown.
Now, everyone knows who you were really satirizing, in 1951.
Not much has changed, sorry to report.
This is well known negotiation game - the Confidential Information Game.
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