On Tue, 12 Feb 2019 13:45:23 -0500, Gary > wrote:

>Bruce wrote:
>>
>> Isn't their a comic strip where the bully's called Brutus?
>
>I kind of remembered but then I did have to look it up...
>Popeye cartoons. For awhile he was Bluto then changed to Brutus
>for many years.
>
>OR...you can go way back in history or at least to
>Shakes-his-spear....
>Julius Caesar was stabbed by all the Roman elite kids and
>remember
>one of his last things to say was, "Et tu Brute?" That guy was
>Brutus.
>
>

Yes, it did vaguely remind me of Popeye:

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/...20131011035519

Taking on Popeye... Bluto must have been blotto.