Mutt & Jeff by Bud Fisher for August 26, 2023

Jeff predicted the Internet.

“UNA” – use no acronyms

since the last time Nutt and Jeff was published in 1882 – and G.W.B. – George W. Bush – wasn’t elected until 2000 – 18 years later – it is pretty obvious that this is yet another instance of someone somewhere believing they were making this strip more “relevant” by tossing the original conversation and causing the whole strip to end up being totally meaningless. Based on the drawing style, my guess is that the original strip talked about H.S.T. – Harry S. Truman.

The more acronyms = the more wool pulling.

This was the dawning of texting with emojis. LOL

Someone’s been editing the captions

Mutt, the infinite straight man.

Wikipedia, ‘Mutt and Jeff remained in syndication until 1983’.

“Harvey’s a CPA; he works for IBM; he went to MITand got his PhD …” – Alan Sherman

Probably from the 1930s or ’40s, when the Roosevelt (FDR) administration became famous for their alphabet series of government agencies.