This strip was a joy to write. I can't remember where I got the idea for presidents to play the dozens ("snaps" or whatever depending on which mean streets you grew up) but once the idea was down, the lines flowed like molasses in Boston in January. inky from ifMUD gave me the Teapot Dome line, which I thought was brilliant, and I set it up so that the presidents in each row are talking to each other.

For those not well-versed in American Presidentology, they are, from left to right in each row:

1 Left: Warren G. Harding, the most corrupt president this country has yet to know, though he's certainly facing stiff competition among the new upstarts.

1 Right: Andrew Johnson, who up until the time of Clinton was the only president to be impeached.

2 Left: Theodore Roosevelt. I had nothing bad to say about him so the insult thrown at him involved his successor, William Taft, who was a hefty 300 pounds and once got stuck in the White House bathtub (or was that a HL Mencken fallacy?)

2 Right: Ronald Reagan, friend to the homeless.

3 Left: Harry S Truman. Nope, the middle initial means nothing except "S".

3 Right: "Silent" Calvin Coolidge, my hometown favorite.

4 Left: Grover Cleveland, who did indeed father an illegitimate child and hushed it up, and who still won his election when the news broke.

4 Right: Oh shit I don't know who this is.

Make sure you keep careful notes because there will be a quiz at the end of this all.

And a tip o' the lynch lid to Dan Shiovitz for Andrew Johnson's snap.

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