Andy Capp by Reg Smythe for October 26, 2012

I quit going, since my ribs kept getting bruised from my other half’s elbow, – trying to keep me awake and not snoring !

for once i’m with Andy….

“I Wonder What Became Of Sally”(our half-pint or Starlet O’hara? LOL

What are yer talkin’ about, Andy?

You get MORE than enough sleep on that couch of yours!

LOL xxx

Do you expect us to believe that, Vicar?

ZOOM

@Gweedo Murray

Gweedo Murray said, about 10 hours ago

I could mee’choo halfway and call you "Half-Star. Actually, I think either name works, given the occasion. Didn’t know you were a ‘Starlet’. When do you become a full on star ? Thought it was time I got on the Half-Train.

Afficionado was the one who came up with ‘Starlet’ and Linda with ‘Half Pint’. I love both of the nicknames but you can call me anything you want.

I recieved 3 more classic Andy Capp books today. I now have 5 alogether. Looks like I’m starting a collection. They are from 1977, 1974, 1973 and 1962. My other book doesn’t say what year but it’s likely 70’s.

Hope you had a good rest and I hope you enjoy your day.

“Must you fall alseep during my speeches?”

“No, it is purely voluntary”

Winston Churchill

The odd thing is that Andy makes it go church! Does the Queen send around church wardens so all actively practice the Queen’s religion?

The Vicar must had said that everyone should feel at home in their church.

Does he take off his cap in church?

It’s definitely cold for real now. The two or three inches of snow are still here; being held by 29 deg. F.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>That’s one of the reason’s I don’t miss Colorado ! I lived above Monument back when it was just a spit in the road between Denver and Colorado Springs. Could only live there in the summer because of snow and impassable roads. Moved down to Sedona, Az. where I had four mild seasons and didn’t have to shovel snow. Spent 25 yrs. there.I’ve been in Florida for about 15 years but not a day goes by that I don’t miss the Southwest.

Never hit your wife (on Sunday).

I mentally write things during the sermons. Short stories during short sermons, novels during the long ones, operas during the ridiculous ones………

@Number SixSorry I didn’t comment about last week’s installment of The Mad Capps, but I really liked it. Your upcoming episode sounds a little controversial, lol.

The Vicar knows Andy.

Where are you that snow falls in October? I hate snow – it stems from the fact that I was brought up in Queensland, Australia and also off the coast of Malaya..Fortunately where I live now it doesn’t snow very often on the coast but when it does it soon disappears.

Hope you are keeping nice and warm!

My Andy Capp books are probably used bookstore finds… Some of the pages in one of them are falling out. I was reading them this afternoon and I was laughing really loud… They are really comical! I’ll always be an Andy Capp fan. No other comic strip will ever replace it.

Sorry to hear about your difficulties with your USB hub. They can be tricky things can’t they? Is it all sorted now? I hope so…

Computer accessories are just so frustrating.

Hope you have a brilliant weekend!

@Dry

Dry said, about 23 hours ago

Number Three and pcolli, I’m an “only” too! ;-( Had a half-sister I never met. Everybody in the family knew about her, but me. She has since passed away. I guess I have some nephews out there somewhere.

Sorry to hear that, Dry. It’s not nice is it? I only found out I had a brother about 3-4 years ago.

I’m probably an Aunt myself.

Oh my God… Imagine me an auntie!

But it is likely as he’s all grown up now.

Sorry to hear your sister passed away.

Your Avatar is soooo adorable by the way.

I always thought Colorado was hot and desert-y. Keep yourself warm (or/and someone else). If I see snow or frost I won’t go outside..My other half is like a furnace (but personally feels cold) I feel hot (but to anyone else I’m cold)..I’m all wireless, but not fibre (fiber) optic. I don’t know you but if you knocked at the door, I’d let you in.

I think the vicar got the message!

I was at a church in Ft..Wayne, Ind. once and someone was snoring so loudly we couldn’t hear the sermon..

Can’t recall the name of the strip:::::She: "Isn’t that the widow Johnson in the blue dress 4 pews up?He: (waking up) Huh, huh, what??She: “A lot of good it does you to go to church!!”

Quartemain exposed—Those were the days there were still man pulled Rickshaws in Tschingtao, China—Thanks

You know that the 16 inchers on the battleships were technically RIFLES don’t you?About every 300 rounds or so they had to take the barrels out of the turrets and ship them back to the Washington Navy Yard on THREE flatcars on the railroads so they could take them apart and put new barrel liners in them and re-rifle the bores in them again. THAT took some BIG equipment. Just the barrels alone weighed about 120 tons!

“There’s a Harbor Of Dreamboats”

Yeah, I noticed that afterwards which is why I deleted that post of mine. Sorry,

The big battleships like the Iowa class and a few before that had 16 inch inside diameter “RIFLES” that fired a projectile that weighed over a ton(!) over 41,000 yards range (a little over 20 nautical miles)!

Sorry, I hit the wrong button before I finished.

The projectile weight was about 2700 pounds, and the muzzle velocity was about 2700 feet/second.

EACH “RIFLE” could keep this up at a rate of fire of once every 30 seconds!

It was quite a show, BELIEVE ME!!

The Iowa Class battleships (Iowa, New Jersey, Wisconsin and Missouri (on which Japan’s surrender was finalized) had three turrets each with three of these big “RIFLES”.

Just the pressure on the surface of the water from the muzzle blast of ONE of these 16 inch “RIFLES” when it fires displaces about 11000 TONS of water by depressing the surface of the water downward for a few seconds.

Slight correction, the 2700 feet/second muzzle velocity that I quoted above was for a lighter projectile, the 2700 pound projectile has a muzzle velocity of about 2500 feet/second.

And, no, the battleship is so heavy that it does NOT move sideways in the water to any measurable extent even if it fires all NINE of these 16 inch “RIFLES” broadside at the same time.

I have a picture of the USS Missouri taken from a neighboring ship during WWII where you can actually SEE all six of those projectiles from the forward two turrets in flight about a ship’s length from the muzzles of the “rifles”.That was some perfect timing by the camera man!

My comment about moving sideways is a mistake. It doesn’t move sideways because of the recoil of the rifles but it DOES move sideways because of the displaced water from the muzzle blast which pushes against the side of the ship. 11000 tons of water displaced for each rifle it fires is NOT a trifling amount! I realized that this must be the case shortly after I sent that message and looked further.

See here http://www.eugeneleeslover.com/AMMUNITION/USS-IOWA-BROADSIDE-FIREING.html

How much it moves sideways depends on how fast the ship is moving when the rifles fire. The faster it is moving, the less the pressure of the water on the side of the ship affects the motion of the ship.