Sorry, Charlie

Cidu Bill on Jun 30th 2008

Winter Wallaby sent me this as a lol; but it’s a CIDU to me:
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Filed in Arlo Page, Bill Bickel, CIDU, Charles Guiteau, Garfield, comic strips, humor, lol | 9 responses so far

9 Responses to “Sorry, Charlie”

  1. Adam Jun 30th 2008 at 01:08 pm 1

    The two people on the floor are both Garfields. The man, specifically, is President Garfield, who was assassinated by Charles Guiteau.

    Thanks, Wikipedia!

  2. Count Shrimpula Jun 30th 2008 at 01:27 pm 2

    For more information on the assassination of Garfield by Charles Guiteau (as well as the assassinations of Lincoln and McKinley), I highly recommend Sarah Vowell’s Assassination Vacation.

  3. Rebecca Jun 30th 2008 at 02:22 pm 3

    Charles Guiteau was a crazy bastard; he thought he was doing God’s will by shooting Garfield, and was also angry that he didn’t get the job he expected to get from Garfield; after Garfield died, they reformed the job-getting system, so that people were hired based on their skills rather than appointed personally by the President and rewarded for their party loyalty, which was a sucky system.

  4. Eric Goebelbecker Jun 30th 2008 at 02:52 pm 4

    “…was a sucky system?”

    Seems like that system was reinstated about 7years ago.

  5. Neddo Jun 30th 2008 at 07:57 pm 5

    Just wanted to point out that this comic is by Kate Beaton, an excellent Canadian cartoonist.

  6. Powers Jul 1st 2008 at 07:27 am 6

    Apparently excellence is in the eye of the beholder.

  7. DPWally Jul 1st 2008 at 12:07 pm 7

    Eric: Not really.

    Before the creation of the civil service system, a new administration would basically fire the whole government and replace it with friends and supporters.

    Now the government is civil servants, who are hard to dismiss, and political appointees, who expect to be replaced by a new administration.

  8. Neddo Jul 1st 2008 at 05:27 pm 8

    Powers, you are excellent.

  9. kodijack Jul 3rd 2008 at 02:19 pm 9

    I only recently was recommended Kate Beaton’s web site and I can say that I have had fun looking up stuff in order to understand some of her comics.

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