Andy Capp by Reg Smythe for February 01, 2025

she really knows how to rub it …. now ya’ll be good girls, dem ladies

Could Flo’s bail money be deducted from her tax bill??

A number of posters have taken me to task for being “negative” about this strip. On the whole, I like the strip; I like Flo, Ruby, Chalkie, Alan—even the stuck-up Vicar! I just detest the title character!

I lived in NYC during the Koch/Dinkins administrations, and I’ve encountered many “Andy Capps” on the streets and in the parks—drunken, drug-addled bums living on the taxpayers’ dole and hassling (or mugging) passers-by! And as much as I was (and still am) a loyal Democrat, I appreciated Rudy Giuliani’s cleaning up of the city. In fact, I thought Rudy was an OK guy—until he latched onto Trump!

But, I digress, here. The point is, this character is a useless, drunken bum whom I DON’T find amusing!

Poor Flo. In all senses of the word.

Stupid brits don’t have repeat offenders laws.

In reality, this strip has been going for nearly sixty years as it started in the summer of 1957. Andy was introduced to us as “a boozing, brawling, betting, wife-bashing old codger”. Today’s strip shows that Flo and Andy are in their fifties or early sixties within the strip so Andy may indeed qualify as an old codger.

It’s 25 years to the day this strip made me laugh.

There’s still tomorrow…

;o)

It’s been around longer, but I’ve been laughing at this strip for over 50 years in its various forms, including paperback books, and the bags of Pub Fries.

read my lips, its a cartoon ,not real!!!

Society’s perspective of drunks have changed. On the US variety tv show “Jackie Gleason” in the 1960’s, Frank Fontaine aka ‘Crazy Guggenheim’, the drunk at the bar, was considered funny. Now he would be a tragic character needing help. Andy Capp is a relic of ages gone by. It is something to ponder that a lot of comedy is based on tragedy. I would not laugh at a cripple, but many do.

CLASSIC ANDY CAPP.

(Panel 1.) Andy and Chalkie pass Flo in the hallway. She’s on stepladders painting the ceiling.

(Panel 2.) Andy and Chalkie are heading to the pub. Chalkie asks, “Ow d’ya keep ’er at it, Andy?”

Andy replies, “I just tell ‘er she’s gettin’ too old for that kind ’o thing!”

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Ooh – now that’s a zinger!

Spin the propeller on your hat, Mavis.

Seems like it was only yesterday. Oh wait… it was.

Rube, not nice, even though it’s true.

So …don’t read the comic, and leave it for those that DO enjoy it. lol

If Andy was in the USA he would have run into the 3-strikes laws and Flo would have saved a lot of bail money in the last 50 years. But we wouldn’t even know about her. Cheers

I dislike people like that…..