Andy Capp by Reg Smythe for April 04, 2021

bummer

They obviously have not had enough beer. If they had enough, it would not matter if it was pouring rain. Get back in there and do your job boys.

Hey, if Guitar Bob washes out in music maybe he has a career in weather forecasting!

@Linguist Today’s strip looks like it’s been cobbled together just for the new guys to keep their pay , our HERO Mr Andrew Capp is not saying or doing anything funny nor are the other characters :o{ my avatar is a spoof of our Lord rising out of His tomb as He said he would , come avete passato la vostra Domenica di Pasqua mio piu giovane amicho? our Easter Sunday should be calm I hope ,no Sunday drive, just chill, pig out on sweets and surf GoComics ,watch Holy Mass on TV and try not to irritate Connie, keep safe and a bientot pal . Happy Easter to all Cappers past and present who celebrate it.

Yea, better go back inside. Sh** floats.

Seems it would be hard to “Boldly go where no man has gone before” onto the streets of Hartlepool unless you were 3 sheets to the wind or out of your mind on loco weed!

Raindrops keep fallin’ on my head

And just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed

Nothin’ seems to fit

Those raindrops are fallin’ on my head, they keep fallin’

Drizzmel in the UK ?

“There might as well be rain. Let the rains come.”

Guitar Bob sings a Bob Dylan tune. Judging how Dylan sang the last few times I heard him singing, I don’t Guitar Bob could do any worse. Where have you been my blue-eyed son? In the canal with Andy!

♫♪

I saw her sitting in the rain

Raindrops falling on her

She didn’t seem to care

She sat there and smiled at me

♪♫

Happy Easter!

If there was a new pub opening, Andy would get there by canal if he had to.

This one’s silly and unbelievable. Andy is upset because Chalkie decides they need to return to the pub? As long as Chalkie’s buying, Andy would be delighted!

Boldly Going has been washed out.

Guitar Bob must sing Pro Bono for tips. Surely the Gaffer can’t afford to pay something for nothing?

It easier to seek adventure when you don’t have money for another round!

Even easier if you’ve already HAD a couple!

thought andy would appreciate not having to go out of the pub

Doesn’t look like a hard rain to me.

Well! That puts a damper on everything……just sayin’

See, in the first pannel, thats foreshadowing right there

Adventures need good weather.

Those two couldn’t find adventure if it smacked them in the face.

To boldly go where no man has gone before would to be to go for a swim in the rain down the river

Looks like their adventure has been called on account of rain.

Song referenced:

A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall

By Bob Dylan

Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?

And where have you been, my darling young one?

I’ve stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains

I’ve walked and I’ve crawled on six crooked highways

I’ve stepped in the middle of seven sad forests

I’ve been out in front of a dozen dead oceans

I’ve been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard

And it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard

It’s a hard rain’s a-going to fall

Oh, what did you see, my blue-eyed son?

And what did you see, my darling young one?

I saw a newborn baby with wild wolves all around it

I saw a highway of diamonds with nobody on it

I saw a black branch with blood that kept dripping

I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleeding

I saw a white ladder all covered with water

I saw ten-thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken

I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children

And it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, and it’s a hard

It’s a hard rain’s a-going to fall

(to be continued)

(Continued)

And what did you hear, my blue-eyed son?

And what did you hear, my darling young one?

I heard the sound of a thunder that roared out a warning

I heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world

I heard one hundred drummers whose hands were a-blazing

I heard ten-thousand whispering and nobody listening

I heard one person starve, I heard many people laughing

I heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter

I heard the sound of a clown who cried in the alley

And it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard

It’s a hard rain’s a-going to fall

Oh, what did you meet, my blue-eyed son?

And who did you meet, my darling young one?

I met a young child beside a dead pony

I met a white man who walked a black dog

I met a young woman, her body was burning

I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow

I met one man who was wounded in love

I met another man who was wounded in hatred

And it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard

It’s a hard rain’s a-going to fall

(To be concluded)

(Conclusion)

And what will you do now, my blue-eyed son?

And what will you do now, my darling young one?

I’m a-going back out ’fore the rain starts a-falling

I’ll walk to the depths of the deepest dark forest

Where the people are many and their hands are all empty

Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters

Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison

And the executioner’s face is always well hidden

Where hunger is ugly, where the souls are forgotten

Where black is the color, where none is the number

And I’ll tell it, and speak it, and think it, and breathe it

And reflect from the mountain so all souls can see it

Then I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinking

But I’ll know my song well before I start singing

And it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, and it’s a hard

It’s a hard rain’s a-going to fall

Happy Easter to all!

Andy and Chalkie’s expedition to enlightenment has been called on account of rain. Again.

Are those drops of “hard” water?

Chalkie, the greatest hero of our time.