Andy Capp by Reg Smythe for June 15, 2024

Can’t leave home without it

if you have Andy, why bother with google translate.

And that’s how you make friends…

“Et puis, je tombe dans le canal, et les gendarmes me arretes!” Translation: “And then, I fall into the canal, and the cops arrest me!”

I love Fat Sam

They buy the beer, they drink the beer and then they start brawling and trowing things around before getting arrested and put on the ferry the following day.

There’s actually a Tesco at Calais…

There’s a Calais, Maine about a four hour drive heading south of me. Nice little town getting near the Bay of Fundy on the New Brunswick, CN border. A lot of New Brunswick is bi-lingual, so speaking french there shouldn’t be too much of a problem.

Of course that is the only French you need, right.

In France it will be wine not beers or ales.

Literal translation and colloquial translation differ. Sometimes a literal translation is not grammatically correct. The French language does not always follow rules of grammar…but then the language preceded grammar by centuries.

I wonder how much free beer you got on that trip, Andy.

Does Andy know that Guitar Bob is going? Un Huh.

Andy, the international ambassador of good will.

His French is well suited for a bar fest!

And which sucker is going to produce a ticket for the lazy, worthless slug ?

Well, at least it isn’t I would like to go to the Hotel Pierre – thanks to incessant Babel.com commercials, that’s about the French anyone knows…

Surprised that wasn’t a one-way trip.

I doubt if this will be an arc, but I’d like to see it: Andy and the lads away from the wives.

Andy with an empty pint. A depressing way to start the weekend. Pony up Purple Suit.

Je ne parle pas français. Je suis de Géorgie.

Worked in Belgium, too.

Andy knows French? Will wonders ever cease?

Set the date and forget to tell Andy.

Moi, j’parle l’Anglais. Und ein bischen Deutsch (auch/aussi). (And also Ocker Aussie…another beer, mate, please). But not NZ (as they have trouble pronouncing English). Now, as for Brooklynese, where I was a toddler…