Andy Capp by Reg Smythe for June 30, 2013

’Twill only expire when you or Flo expires, Andy.

This sorry excuse for a Sunday strip could have been a good 2 panel daily IF… panel one, Chalkie (instead of this lame professor) comes in and asks Andy (who’s standing there quietly), “What are yer doin’ ’ere Andy lad?” then, panel 2 is identical to the last panel, other than having Chalkie standing where the lamo Prof is, and having the clerk say “I’m sorry Mr Capp, but there’s no expiry date on a Marriage licence!” (Rather than giving the same punch line twice…LAME)

Flo, generous as always, shares her knowledge with others…

Andy, not to be outdone, does the same…

How does one identify a “silent majority”? If silent, how can it be quantified as a majority? Tea leaves? Chicken entrails? Crystal ball? Ouija board?

Flo should be the one asking about an expiration date.

I’m the unsilent majority and I kind of agree that all the personal talking doesn’t belong here. This isn’t a messageboard or a FB page…

Opinions are best left to those that are qualified to make them.

My opinion (as I don’t want to be in the silent majority): As I’ve said before, I like the little glimpses into people lives here. So many are from different parts of the world which really makes it interesting. Also, commenters here get to be like friends we enjoy hearing from. I can be happy when they are happy and commiserate when they are not. Happy day to all!

After 55+ years of, er, bliss, Andy feels qualified to give counseling on matrimonial matters:

Actually (and personally), I don’t mind the “doubled” punch line so much. It’s an old comedy trick for one character to say something that he thinks is complete nonsense only to have the other character actually about to do the exact thing. (Like an old “Peanuts” episode where Linus is standing at the street corner. Violet asks him what he’s doing, and he says that he’s running away from home. Violet says, “I know a good joke about a kid running away from home. He can’t because he’s not allowed to cross the street by himself.” Of course, it turns out that that’s exactly Linus’ problem………..) But the first three panels for sure are wasted, and maybe Mikej is right that Chalkie should’ve been there instead. (Or maybe they BOTH could have checked to see if their marriage licenses had expired……….)

Ok kids, take a time out…go to the zoo, a museum, a library, the movies or a friends house, leave all portable devices in the kitchen (either the freezer or the oven, your choice) and enjoy a beautiful Sunday!Sensitively Sensible Sunday Hugs ((((((( CAPPERS ! )))))))

Sometimes It’s a case of Kitty see, Kitty do.

  Doing It To Death Dept.

What a plonker.

LOL xxx

@Gweedo Murray

Well done to Ron for getting the trailer before anybody else. Sounds like it was a close call.

I hope the bathroom tiling doesn’t take you and Joe too long. Do you have many to put up?

I was only responding to bad energy too but some other users must have flagged my comment because the next thing I knew… It had vanished in thin air. But it didn’t bother me in the slightest.

The troll got banned eventually because an ‘anonymous source’ reported it to the person at GoComics who manages everybody’s accounts. I knew who the person was though.

P.S. Yes I liked the ‘w’ in my name.

Stick to readin’ ’em, Mikeyj, Reg is doing just fine.

Not counting divorce, the license expires when you do.

Oh, shut it, Prissy!! MYOB!!

I still like today’s strip (better than most of the current crop of Capps……….) By no means a masterpiece, yet to me at least worth a chuckle I have a question for those people who can’t seem to muster up the mental discipline to scroll past comments that don’t interest them. Do you also object to GoComics having comics that you don’t personally read? It really is the EXACT same thing.

Does anybody know what La Belle Franglaise is a professor of? I would ask her myself but it would be irrelevant to the strip..Were she to respond she would be as “guilty” of irrelevance as anyone else and have no cause to complain.

See Garfield comment from a certain person aka “copulating irrigation reservoir (in charge)” for the latest entertainment.

Just look at the comments.

I must send the moderators a note. It’s Sunday, and they were on that TWIT like a fly on cow dung! EXCELLENT JOB!

Just sent it. I hope they reply. We dump on them when things go wrong, but I must say, THEY WERE RIGHT ON TOP OF THIS ONE! I went to their profile page and flagged all their posts, and I KNOW I wasn’t the only one. Left for awhile and when I came back all the TWITS comments were gone. I probably missed a lot more of their venom in between. I hope they bring charges against this person. That is the WORST I have seen and I have been here since 2008.

Face it people.GoComics has become a social chat site.That is okay from my point of view.For what little my view as a silent consistent reader of this strip is worth.Even if I don’t comment on it much.And my vote is always for/with the artist. I’ll not second guess them.If I were to try to do their job, I would fail.

Forget my praise to the moderators. Turns out the TROLL deleted it’s own comments apparently from what I am hearing from others.

Yes, unless the strip is in poor taste, I agree. Cartoonists have a tough job and have a great talent.

OK. Who’s “Twit”? I hate coming in late but sometimes it’s what I gotta do. I know “Twit” is not our resident English ex-pat. Her posts are still intact. Throw me a bone, Guys. I hate being left out, even when I did it meself.

Lordy, lordy, Bev is back and finally there will be someone with common sense on this board.Welcome back, Beviek.