Brevity by Dan Thompson for March 20, 2013

You know how there’s a liqueur called Goldschlager, that actually has gold flakes in it? Why not Copperschlager…….Silverschlager?

All the toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on.

You know, guys: there’s a reason Dan Thompson gets paid for this…

Then they had policeman cookies. Cop cakes.

Beveik: by that kleptomaniac from from Cleveland.

Dirty copper leads:

hey, about those budget cuts; is that really your office?

I’ve got one lead in my pencil.

Put out an APB on Claude Cooper from Cleveland.

I zinc you may be 97.5 percent wrong.

Normally this strip has some type of humor I can enjoy, but having had a house we’re selling (but not living in) stripped of all the copper in the basement in early Feb, this strip kinda falls flat footed.

From 1968 two minutes plushttp://highpoints.smugmug.com/FavoriteVideos/Entertainment-Videos/23668265_CBts8n/1915845676_TjbK89p#!i=1915845676&k=TjbK89p

Does “Copper thieves” here just means people that steal actual copper? Or is there another meaning/joke I am missing?

Cops are so called because the original police in NY had copper badges.

Copper was a good show on BBC, wondered what had happened to it . . . ☻

VERY good, all you punsters……

Konrad: Or British report signature abreviation for Constable on Patrol. Or brass buttons on the uniform coat. Or a half dozen other hypotheses.

Konrad and Hippogriff..Both of those derivations are folk etymology.

The word “copper” for a policeman predates shiny uniform buttons….. and was in use long before “cop,” so the acronym theory makes no sense.

The most likely derivation is said to be from the verb “to cop”, which already meant “to take or grab” in the middle ages.

By the 18th century, the bailiff or a sheriff who “copped” you was, therefore, a “copper”… later shortened to “cop.”

Bruno….. cos I thought someone might get a charge out of it.