Gasoline Alley by Jim Scancarelli for February 21, 2016

As usual, a clever Sunday strip! But, I must admit that when I first saw panel #2, I thought President John Tyler was Joey Bishop! (Maybe they were related!)

I went to school with a descendant of Andrew Jackson. One day the Sheriff deputies were at our school, which was unusual during the 1960s. The boy looked out at the Sheriff cars and said, “The Fuzz”. The teacher got mad and gave him a homework assignment to write the definition of fuzz twenty times.

Just wondering if in the “late fees” section, the writer counted the increase of value of currency.

Could Washington’s teeth have given him lead poisoning?

Ok was around long before Van Buren. And he did notcoin it. Geeeez get your facts straight.

There’s not supposed to be a period after the S in Ulysses S Grant.

But I saw it in the funnies so it must be true!

I never heard of Lincoln being born anywhere but Kentucky..But then it’s also Abraham Lincoln who said “Don’t believe everything you read on the internet.”

I think the most interesting thing about John Tyler is that he has grandchildren that are still living.

Van Buren didn’t invent it, but it wasn’t around “long before” him, either; it arose during his political career. There was a silly fad, just like the lolspeak fad today, for “creative spellings” like “oll korrect”. Big yucks. It was all soon forgotten, but “oll korrect”, in particular got involved with Van Buren’s nickname “Old Kinderhook” (a town in New York) and slogans like, “Vote for Old Kinderhook—he’s OK!” As a result, “OK” stuck in the public mind long after “oll korrect” was completely forgotten, and it took researchers a hundred years to rediscover what had happened.

Oh, I forgot to mention that the Democratic party supporters of Van Buren didn’t start to use it publicly until early 1840.

Hmm, 227 years plus 1759 equals 1986!! Maybe they meant 257 years!