Andy Capp by Reg Smythe for August 06, 2023

look to the bright side, Flo. With the efforts he has to offer, Nothing is better than values in the negative. He could’ve ended up indebted to the workplace instead of getting paid altogether.

i thought there was something fishy about the interview!

Maybe Andy went there because he thought HE could get pickled there.

I’d pass too !

The place probably stinks too!

P-P-P pick-up a pilchard

An interesting sign of progress that Andy was interviewed for a job by a woman. Presumably, she is Penny who owns the factory. Andy would then have been working for a woman if he had got the job although there was obviously no chance of that. As it is, he will still be living off Flo’s earnings and off his fellow drinkers.

Could be a decent job. Lunch is on the house.

Andy’s worth…next to nothing!

yet, when you’re currently not making anything….

What the hell is a “Pilchard”?

What’s a pilchard, and why would one pickle them?

I don’t know, but my guess is that a “pilchard” is a pickle. Keeps you from saying “Penny’s Pickled Pickles.”

That job’s a tongue twister.

Penny Pinched a Peck of Pithy Pickled Pilchards

Andy has a commitment to no hard work. Or no work at all.

I’m not sure I’d want to be the pastor of a parish in proximity to a pilchard pickling plant. No about of incense is going to shroud the stench of smelly sardines.

There’s something fishy about Penny’s Pickled Pilchard factory, could it be the smell?…

Just as well. That job sounds fishy. (Interesting name, though. Penny’s Pickled Pilchards. Quite alliterative. Bet you can’t say that three times fast.)

This reminds me of the one where Andy was walking by a construction site.

Andy yells down “What’s the pay Gaffer?”

Gaffer: “I’ll pay yer what yer worth”

Andy, walking away “If yer think I’m going to work for that kind of money Yer Crazy”