Andy Capp by Reg Smythe for April 07, 2016

wasn’t Andy barred from that pub just yesterday?

It’s a gift, Jackie, it’s a gift. And a key to your back door.

Yesterday afternoon I went to the kitchen to get another Canadian on the rocks, and what do I find but a snake slithering across my kitchen floor. Let me repeat that-4’ OF SINUOUS, SCALY, CERTAIN DEATH was in my house! After recovering from the mild heart attack, I opened the back door and tried to gently push the demon out the door, but he managed to evade me and hole up behind some boxes. I know that snakes are an important part of the ecosystem that help control rodents and the like, but that doesn’t apply to my kitchen. Okay, I know it wasn’t a copperhead, water moccasin, rattler, or coral snake so it probably wasn’t poisonous, but when it comes to snakes, I am not a rational being.After due deliberation, I took the only reasonable action available under the circumstances.Anyone know an easy fix for a 9MM hole in a kitchen floor?

The epitome of the cartoonist……. create a situation for which there is no explanation …………

He must have climbed thru a window

Andy is not the only one who is hallucinating……………..

Jedi mind trick?

Simple, Jack. You know how we all have a Higher Power, to help us? Well, Andy Capp has his own Lower Power to help him!

Secret twin?

He’s sloshing so much that he was just able to turn into a puddle and go under the door.

I suspect that he came in through the beer cellar.

You know it’s magic!

But the cat came back the very next day.The cat came back. They thought he was a gonerBut the cat came back. He just wouldn’t stay away.

@Number ThreeThanks for posting my song yesterday!

I used to bring home all kinds of wild things. I’d try to catch anything and everything. I was bearing down on a pigeon when Mom screamed and frightened off. there are deer here now. if they were here +50 yr ago I would have roped one For Sure!

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Today’s strip is just a redo of a Smythe original.

@afficionado U L M

Good afternoon (?) Affie.Running around in the proverbial circles, today so I’ll be brief …I am SOOO over this election season, I could scream.

I’d much rather talk about Sandfan’s snake then listen to anything from those " snakes in the grass " !

Fortunately, it’s not too bad here. When I lived in the States, I wore out more than one Mute button on the tv remote control.

Fireplace? Floorboards? Back door?

There are many possibilities. Alcoholics always find a way.

xxx

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One more snake story: While playing golf in San Angelo many years ago, there was a place on the course where when you left one green to go the next tee, you had to make a turn around a big old oak tree. Some joker with a diseased mind had coiled up a dead rattle snake at the base of the tree.I am convinced that I hold the world record for the standing broad jump while carrying a golf bag.

Maybe I"m too ignorant to be scared of snakes. I spent all my time trying to catch them. I went after everything that moved. The freakiest was catching a horned lizard and having it’s tail break off..he left it wiggling in my hand as the rest of it ran off!

If you see double, be double.