Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for February 15, 2011
Transcript:
Petey: I've got to do a project on a U.S. president and I got stuck with Rutherford B. Hayes. Mom: He was a very good president! Petey: He's not inspiring! Andre got Abraham Lincoln - he was really tall and had a great hat! Loris got Theodore Roosevelt - he had a big mustache! And he had to gnaw on furniture constantly so his teeth wouldn't grow through his skull. That's inspiring! Mom: Tell me that's not from your textbook.
margueritem almost 14 years ago
Where did he come up with that?
COWBOY7 almost 14 years ago
That’s news to me! Tell us more, Petey.
randayn almost 14 years ago
Wikipedia strikes again!
GROG Premium Member almost 14 years ago
If that came from Petey’s text book, I’ll eat it!
richardcthompson Premium Member almost 14 years ago
I’m embarrassed to say it comes from here- http://tinyurl.com/4pgh7lu
MisterFweem almost 14 years ago
I’d always suspected …
Edward Wiggins Premium Member almost 14 years ago
As a fan of the Racing Rushmores mascots of the Washington Nationals baseball club, I’m not surprised to see Teddy get no respect – AGAIN. Coincidental that this is the first day of spring training, and that Richard Thompson’s home base is The Washington Post? Conspiracy theorists say “they want you to think that.”
Nate Fakes creator almost 14 years ago
It’s nice to learn about US President’s history. I had no idea. That’s crazy!
Tancread Premium Member almost 14 years ago
Teddy was our first beaver president. How could Hayes shine next to that?
eric stott almost 14 years ago
You wouldn’t think it from his presidential portraits, but the young Rutherford Hayes was quite a looker:
http://blonderandthinner.blogspot.com/2009/01/rutherford-b-hayes.html
Yukoneric almost 14 years ago
Only in Texas………………
JHSayers almost 14 years ago
In his way, Petey is kind of the R.B. Hayes of comic strip characters.
Ursula A Kehoe Premium Member almost 14 years ago
Thanks, RT, for today’s laughs!
orfreebird almost 14 years ago
And I thought Teddy was the fish-slapping president …
OldestandWisest almost 14 years ago
Hayes didn’t just have a mustache–he had a beard! Also, he was the first President to successfully steal an election (people used to call him RutherFRAUD B. Hayes). There wouldn’t be another until JFK in 1960 and (almost) Al Gore in 2000.
mrneophyte almost 14 years ago
Richard, you finally pulled “Richard’s Poor Almanack” out from mothballs.
mrneophyte almost 14 years ago
He Richard, you finally pulled ‘Richard’s Poor Almanack’ out of mothballs
ponytail56 almost 14 years ago
mom looks like she’s wearing sod
Elaine Rosco Premium Member almost 14 years ago
Poor Petey
MsMolly almost 14 years ago
I have a hard time believing Petey wouldn’t be happier the more obscure his president was. Presidents that people have heard of? Pah! Those are for amateurs!
Dry and Dusty Premium Member almost 14 years ago
deskmandmnaThanks for the link, funny, too, at times! Yes, he was a looker!
veat almost 14 years ago
Hayes was a horrible president. Like his fellow fraudster who stole the White House 124 years later, he’d lost the popular vote, but traded an electoral win for the disenfranchisement of black Americans in the south, leading to decades of murderous injustice. It was also the death knell for the G.O.P. as a party of civil rights.
Dorian almost 14 years ago
I LOVE CUL DE SAC!! :)
And I echo the thanks to the “hottie” president link - who knew?!
chaosandcake almost 14 years ago
The wagging finger loses no potency hidden under a table.
chaosandcake almost 14 years ago
The wagging finger loses no potency hidden under a table, somehow.
tomart almost 14 years ago
Petey could fire up a hot presentation on Stolen Elections - and segue into the present day, when we’re STILL suffering from the Stolen Election of 2000… History will remember Dubya as the worst President since Jeff Davis.
(OldestandWiseguy, i take issue with your screen name.)
ellisaana Premium Member almost 14 years ago
Its those pesky Virginia textbooks again.
trekkermint almost 14 years ago
love the floating and noisy chocolates
vldazzle almost 14 years ago
It makes sense that GW treated his teeth with wood polish- since I’ve heard they were of wood. As someone who has had full dentures from my 30s, I understand obsession with keeping them as smoothe and comfortable as possible - not sure about the Teddy Roosevelt thing though and what could have caused such a belief…
Are2Dee2 about 2 months ago
The way the liberals have rewritten American history to denigrate the founding fathers, I wouldn’t be surprised to find something like that in one of them.