Andy Capp by Reg Smythe for July 10, 2024

Only the best for Flo

if only it was the job alone that makes her angry …

As if he could find anyone a job.

She should wait until the sofa gets repossessed. Then she can ask him.

He is really thinking of her….

Kick the bum out, but then we wouldn’t have the comic.

She should find herself another job—far, FAR away from him!!

Somethings wrong with the shifter on this sofa, couldn’t get it into first.

Works her fingers to the bone, but still walking upright. Ah, she’ll be fine!

Work your fingers to the bone, and what do you get ? BONY FINGERS.

The King on his Throne. I guess. What else could it be?

He’s unconscious, so don’t expect him to EVER get it!

Work your fingers to the bone what’da get? Bony fingers

Get ya bloody shoes off the Chesterfield! And that Joseph Mallord William Turner (J. M. W. Turner) reproduction/print has doubled in size?

Getting a job and helping with the bills would probably improve her disposition. On the other hand she’d faint right out.

A classic: Andy and Flo are in the pub, and Flo decides to call it a night.

Andy: “Twit, yer don’t have to work tomorrow. Here’s to yer day off.”

Flo: “And here’s to yours, all 365 of them!”

Andy turns to the reader and comments, “She can get mean when she’s had a few.”

Andy needs to be careful and not say that aloud!

Every time I read this strip (as much as I love it) I think to myself that being a spinster is bloody fantastic!

xxx

The old Andy Capp strips have been criticized for being politically incorrect, what with Andy smacking Flo around and all. Arguably, this criticism is justified. However, the fact that it was established early on that Flo was the one who went out and worked (at a time when married women having jobs was frowned upon) does make the vintage Andy Capp comic seem a little progressive for it’s day

AHA! Epiphany! And a whole NEW direction for the strip!! Andy actually gets a JOB!!

Andy you could do some work around the house