Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for February 15, 2021

What about Rutherford B> Hayes, Petey? You got an assignment to do a report on a U.S. president?

That would be a hard one to do in charades.

Maybe a President’s Day report?

The past couple of days, we have seen crossover references between this strip and Richard Thompson’s other strip, Richard’s Poor Almanack. Petey’s old stuffed animal, Mr. Uggins, appeared as a menu item in an English pub in the Almanack, and Rutherford B. Hayes appears in both.

Question, on a test, R. Thompson, as a kid, got wrong: “What was President Rutherford B. Hayes nickname?”

He must have a very penetrating pitch to his whine. I know someone just like that. :D

The guy who caused the end of Reconstruction and ushered in the Jim Crow era.

You would prefer, maybe, Chester A. Arthur?

Ah, one of the Forgettable Presidents. Could be worse. Could be Polk.

Petey, stop chewing your arm off!

Is Dill’s hat picking up Petey’s voice?

Free government cannot long endure if property is largely in a few hands and large masses of people are unable to earn homes, education, and a support in old age.—Rutherford B. Hayes

Could be worse. Could be Chester Arthur. ( see today’s Two Party Opera)

The name they are going to use to replace the eponymous moniker of the school currently in use?

For heaven’s sake Petey, Rutherford can’t B anyone else…

Major, 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Served with William McKinley.

Even when I was Petey’s age, I wondered why you NEVER saw or heard Rutherford B. Hayes’s name without the middle initial. I was always curious how many other people named Rutherford Hayes there were to be confused with.

Oh B Hayes yourself.

Rutherford B. Hayes … it has a ring to it. I think I will name my next pet Rutherford B. Hayes.

In 1879, RBH signed the homestead grant for the property we now own.

I’m not sure if that is a better or worse ear worm than “Ooma Boogie Wow-wow”

The school project heard round the world!

Highest beard to face ratio of any U.S. president.

Yes! President Rutherford B. Hayes, bless him! He was a fine president and a supporter of children who deserves to be known better….

Lots of candidates for worst President, including Hayes and the others mentioned above: Fillmore, Polk, & Arthur. Don’t forget James Buchanan, Lincoln’s predecessor who allowed the Southern states to secede Or Andrew Jackson or Warren Harding, the most corrupt prez prior to the 21st century. Nixon is in the argument too.