Mutt & Jeff by Bud Fisher for December 04, 2024

Jef can be dum sumtimes.

two Greek words for river horse and under judge

I like the final panel where Mutt jumps away. I think the word for it was plop.

Is there a joke here? Jeff can’t spell a word, Mutt offers a suggestion- but it’s for the wrong word. Normally, one or both of the words would have factored into the joke – like if Jeff was behaving like a hypocrite. I feel that if the word was “dismissive”, there’d be kind of a joke.

Fez launch! And Mutt leaves the last panel with apparent incredulous disappointment at his pal Jeff.

Gus is one freaky looking guy…

Hippocracy. Government by horses, as in the last book of Gulliver’s Travels.

Well we know he never won a Spelling Bee.