Andy Capp by Reg Smythe for June 24, 2016

Her what? I’m not that familiar with U.K. confectionary. Are they (as the U.S. calls them) cupcakes? In the mean time, she must’ve overbaked them sand charred them.

Are you sure that she didn’t drop the mixing bowl or knock over the oven. Sponge cakes usually bounce…………

The fairy cakes will be light and fluffy Andy, post Brexit! Or will they… ?

My friend here in Canada is going home to Malta tomorrow,,, something about exhuming his parents remains and interring them into a spot in the church? Then he’s there for the rest oft he month. I wonder what the Brexit will do for Malta?

WELL…As Stan Laurel would say: " This is another fine kettle of fish you’ve gotten us into , Ollie "

The ramifications of Brexit are going to resound throughout the world in the next few months and they may not be pleasant ones.

The Leave vote has had the effect similar to one of Flo’s fairy cakes hitting the floor with a resounding thud !

All I can say is " The best of British luck, to ya ! "

The British expat community, here, is bracing for a new wave of immigrating countrymen.

Since I’m from the colonies instead of the mother country, my opinion might not be worth as much as Flo’s cooking, BUT: It seemed to me from the beginning that the best course would be to vote to stay for the time being. Once out, no being invited back for at least a few decades (what with human nature, country nature, and that whole bitterness thing……) (Of course, the EU might not last decades, I have to admit.) Then again, how hard would it be to arrange another Brexit vote if things don’t improve? I don’t suppose it was all that hard to arrange this vote. Things might or might not improve but my personal inclination (were I British and had the right to vote) would be to vote to stay for the time being. Probably vote to leave, next time around, but who can say what will happen in the future?

I guess only time will tell whether the Brexit vote was right or wrong, but the short term effects are apparent. Stock markets and most currencies are falling drastically, and a full-blown recession seems a probability.

This gag has been repeated several times. Andy once used one of her cakes as a door stop for the pub. I think that was the funniest one!

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At least Britain never went with the Euro. Changing currency is a nightmare.

@pcolliI predicted from the beginning that having a single currency with so many different governments (and cultures) would be extremely tricky, so keeping the pound was the right move. On the other hand, the EU with the euro was successful for a while, and if the Great Recession (caused to a large extent by U.S. policies and/or lack of policies) had never happened, and if ISIS had never been created (caused to a medium extent by U.S. policies and/or lack of policies), thus no refugee crisis, would there have ever been a Brexit vote in the first place? No way to know.

Re: today’s stripi.m.o. it’s be funnier if one of those “thuds” was an OW! from dropping one on her toe

It was Ollie who used the phrase “another fine kettle of fish” to Stan in the 1935 comedy short Thicker Than Water.