Andy Capp by Reg Smythe for July 15, 2021

Next Andy’s acquaintance will ask why Andy’s taking a swim in the canal this late at night.

And wetter.

Nothing like a moonlight swim.

Looks like twofer in the canal tonight!

@Number Three today’s strip IS funny the bloke in the grey suit is more sozzled than our HERO Mr Andrew Capp to mistake Andy’s hiight while the little sot is half in the canal is worthy of the master :o) my policy is to never drink and drive ,you spill too much ( groan) my avatar is a spoof of the American Dennis The Menace embarrassing his dad again ,which goes to show that you have to be careful what you say in front of kids :o) how was your day? Our Thursday should be busy as usual but we should cope I hope , we have already done our bulk shopping , have no errands to run and we both are in a good mood so we can relax a bit drinking chilled bottled water and staying in rooms with A/C or large fans because of the infernal heat , hopefully it is predicted to rain on Sunday , keep safe and thanks for caring young Lady

Another night, another moonlit swim.

Donkey’s years?

Oye! Give a lad a hand. The first step to the loo is a whopper.

He’s not very tall, is he……

https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/cartoons/andy-capp/andy-capp-15th-july-2021-24526239

They should name the canal after him.

It’s always best to have someone to swim with you, for safety’s sake.

Andy’s nose is a lighthouse

Come on in the waters fine !

It’s always stimulating to watch titanic intellects get together.

How deep is that canal if Andy is able to stand on the bottom?

Either Andy treads water well or it’s a shallow canal.

How many years are for donkeys?

All these Capper repeats are like AFFICIONADO’S comments.

“I never knew you drank, until I saw you sober, once.”

Outside the pub and home, it’s Andy’s third abode.

Is Andy’s crowd all alcoholics?

Andy looks like he just spotted another sucker to buy him a beer.

Andy must wear a polyester wash and wear suit, otherwise by now his pant legs would be up to his knees and his jacket sleeves up to his elbows.

“Donkey’s years” or “Donkey’s ears” means a very long time. There were two proverbial rural phrases:

“Years and years and donkey’s years” and “Us an’t zeed ’e vor years an’ donkeys’-years,”

The earliest known use of the phrase donkey’s years is in The Salisbury Times, 1st July 1876 (from a trial):

Didn’t you ask him how long he had in his possession?

I can’t recollect that. I might have done so.

Didn’t he say for years and years and donkeys years?

I can’t tell. He said he had it a long time.

The earliest known use of the phrase donkey’s ears is “In Gipsy Tents” (1880):

“I have not set eyes on him for donkey’s ears.” [i.e. long years].

The phrase “donkey’s years” apparently does refer to the donkey’s ears, ‘because they’m long’; and it is a play on the words ear and year. It is just the sort of West-country joke that is made and loved, and handed on from generation to generation.

https://wordhistories.net/2016/06/30/donkeys-years/

Some have mistakenly referred to the earliest use of “donkey’s ears” in “The Vermillion Box” (1916) by E. V. Lucas.

Looks like you’ll be joining him if you’re not careful!

I’m rather short myself at 5’2" The friend I met yesterday is 5’4"

If I happen to be taller than somebody, even by 1 inch it makes me happy. I am taller than my Mum at least!

xxx

@Afficionado

Drink driving is still a big problem here in the UK. So is using a mobile phone while driving. Both of those things anger our friend Number Six. But we shouldn’t tar all British drivers with the same brush. That’s unfair.

I always give a little wave of acknowledgement when a driver lets me cross the road instead of me just standing there like a lemon waiting until all the cars pass. Haha.

On Facebook today, I shared a memory of me posing in a Thai silk dressing gown taken 2 years ago. 6 Likes on this comment by turnover and I’ll post the photo tomorrow.

Stay safe, stay well, stay cool and stay happy, pal.

Always a canal, always construction going on a few blocks away, Jack the barman seems to work in every pub.

Donkey’s years? There’s a phrase I haven’t heard before. The things you learn from reading Andy Capp.

And wetter.

That 2nd panel is pure clown act.

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