Gweedo – It’s legal here !!! – Murray said, about 12 hours ago
Email/SPAM division isn’t perfect !I get some “spam” at the inbox yet myself. I believe I was still a library comp user when Yahoo set up a SPAM category. The “SPAM” box makes it easy to do bulk deletes. -I’m sure Dad started going bald before 30 and was pretty clear on top by 40. Had that early greying thing going on too. While Mom managed to look younger than her years, Dad managed to look older than his. -I thought Saturday night was all right for fighting !-Don’t forget to pick up the spray coloring on your way around.-I am only working on the screen. The incoming content from “the brain” should not affect the displayed content, but will admit there is much I don’t know. -Looking ahead…..“Finally” is around the second curve ! _____________________________________________________
Whenever I got emails from Online Casinos, I would keep blocking the addresses and now I don’t get them anymore. Trying not to speak too soon.-Poor Dad! It must be rotten looking older than your age and even more rotten when you feel older than you are! If I get one more person saying I look older than my age then I’m going to put two big plaits in my hair secured with pink bobbles, wear a pink dress with frills and white frilly socks. Then we’ll see what they say! LOL. Just kidding. But I did used to wear two big plaits with flowery bobbles when I was about 11. You would have went all soft and cooing if you had seen me. Unlike now! Haha.-No that’s Friday night… Isn’t it?-A little tech talk for you here… The “brain” of a computer is called a CPU (Central Processing Unit) I did an IT course at College and we learned about hardware, software and the inside parts such as a motherboard.-I am counting down the hours, minutes and seconds before Finally Friday.-But for now, I hope you have a delightful Thursday!
@MikeyjI’m pretty sure that Smythe would NOT have had Flo talking to the reader in the second panel. I do agree that he would have had Flo laughing along with Rube in the final panel. (I have a hunch he would have had Andy hear about it on the telly instead of read about it, too……..)
Does Andy live in the past or in the present?-————-Since Smythe’s death in 1998, the strip has built jokes around karaoke machines, mobile phones, e-mail addresses and even computer games consoles. But the current team all agree that such elements must be used sparingly. - “It is quite a timeless cartoon, but you don’t want to be too remote,” Garnett says. “I think you have to have reference to today’s world without having Andy himself taking part in it.”- Goldsmith adds: “Andy’s world is kind of a precious thing, really. It’s easy to break it if you start messing around with it too much.”- It’s a tricky balance to strike. Mahoney will often draw houses in Andy’s street with a TV aerial on their roof, for example, but never a satellite dish. “Andy’s world is so complete it doesn’t need any drastic changes,” he says. - The team who made Andy’s 1988 TV sitcom took a similar line. “There is nothing overtly modern,” Waterhouse tells Lilly. “If we showed a car, it would be a Morris Minor.”- Smythe faced a similar dilemma himself, as Hartlepool was already changing very fast even when he began Andy’s strip in 1957. “They were already knocking down the terraces and so on then,” Waterhouse points out. “But the best characters don’t belong in a period. They just ‘are’.”- Smythe mentions computers in the strip as early as 1968, showing one that’s the size of a small car four years later. There’s one 1985 strip which mentions a home computer, a video recorder and a microwave in the same panel.- For the most part though, as Hiley points out, Andy’s Hartlepool has remained in the era Smythe remembered there from his own youth.- “It would be difficult to think of any other popular cultural medium that stays as unchanging as, say, Andy Capp in the Mirror, or Fred Bassett’s suburban world in the Mail,” he says. “I think strip cartoonists create worlds that people get attached to, and they don’t want them to change.- “I don’t want to see Andy driving a car out to some multiplex in the suburbs of Hartlepool or going to some huge Weatherspoons pub. He deserves to drink in a proper back-street pub.”- Doing my research for this piece, I’d noticed that neither Smythe nor his successors have ever shown a black face in the strip. I could believe the town really had been that monocultural in Smythe’s day, but asked the current team if they were ever tempted to bring in a black character today.- “You’ve got to be a bit wary of bringing in ethnic characters just for the sake of it,” Garnett says. “I’m in the North quite a bit, and I think the demographic is still the same. It hasn’t changed that much.”- The most recent source available for Hartlepool’s demographics – the 2001 census – lists its population as 98.8% white. “We’ve got the cast of characters and we need to stick with that really,’ says Goldsmith.-————————(From: www.planetslade.com/andy-capp-reg-smythe14.html)
ORMouseworks about 10 years ago
Hey! Now that is a good one! ;)
Last Rose Of Summer Premium Member about 10 years ago
Bev, The tokens recorded that 53 years ago! The year before I got married and I drove my parents nuts, playing it.
Mikeyj about 10 years ago
Not bad today, 6/10, but, if Smythe had drawn it, he would likely have had Flo laughing along with Rube.
shadyguy about 10 years ago
typical Andy
Number Three about 10 years ago
Doesn’t he normally run to the pub anyway? I’ve seen him do it on plenty occasions.
xxx
Number Three about 10 years ago
Gweedo – It’s legal here !!! – Murray said, about 12 hours ago
Email/SPAM division isn’t perfect !I get some “spam” at the inbox yet myself. I believe I was still a library comp user when Yahoo set up a SPAM category. The “SPAM” box makes it easy to do bulk deletes. -I’m sure Dad started going bald before 30 and was pretty clear on top by 40. Had that early greying thing going on too. While Mom managed to look younger than her years, Dad managed to look older than his. -I thought Saturday night was all right for fighting !-Don’t forget to pick up the spray coloring on your way around.-I am only working on the screen. The incoming content from “the brain” should not affect the displayed content, but will admit there is much I don’t know. -Looking ahead…..“Finally” is around the second curve ! _____________________________________________________
Whenever I got emails from Online Casinos, I would keep blocking the addresses and now I don’t get them anymore. Trying not to speak too soon.-Poor Dad! It must be rotten looking older than your age and even more rotten when you feel older than you are! If I get one more person saying I look older than my age then I’m going to put two big plaits in my hair secured with pink bobbles, wear a pink dress with frills and white frilly socks. Then we’ll see what they say! LOL. Just kidding. But I did used to wear two big plaits with flowery bobbles when I was about 11. You would have went all soft and cooing if you had seen me. Unlike now! Haha.-No that’s Friday night… Isn’t it?-A little tech talk for you here… The “brain” of a computer is called a CPU (Central Processing Unit) I did an IT course at College and we learned about hardware, software and the inside parts such as a motherboard.-I am counting down the hours, minutes and seconds before Finally Friday.-But for now, I hope you have a delightful Thursday!
Godfreydaniel about 10 years ago
@MikeyjI’m pretty sure that Smythe would NOT have had Flo talking to the reader in the second panel. I do agree that he would have had Flo laughing along with Rube in the final panel. (I have a hunch he would have had Andy hear about it on the telly instead of read about it, too……..)
Fan o’ Lio. about 10 years ago
Does Andy live in the past or in the present?-————-Since Smythe’s death in 1998, the strip has built jokes around karaoke machines, mobile phones, e-mail addresses and even computer games consoles. But the current team all agree that such elements must be used sparingly. - “It is quite a timeless cartoon, but you don’t want to be too remote,” Garnett says. “I think you have to have reference to today’s world without having Andy himself taking part in it.”- Goldsmith adds: “Andy’s world is kind of a precious thing, really. It’s easy to break it if you start messing around with it too much.”- It’s a tricky balance to strike. Mahoney will often draw houses in Andy’s street with a TV aerial on their roof, for example, but never a satellite dish. “Andy’s world is so complete it doesn’t need any drastic changes,” he says. - The team who made Andy’s 1988 TV sitcom took a similar line. “There is nothing overtly modern,” Waterhouse tells Lilly. “If we showed a car, it would be a Morris Minor.”- Smythe faced a similar dilemma himself, as Hartlepool was already changing very fast even when he began Andy’s strip in 1957. “They were already knocking down the terraces and so on then,” Waterhouse points out. “But the best characters don’t belong in a period. They just ‘are’.”- Smythe mentions computers in the strip as early as 1968, showing one that’s the size of a small car four years later. There’s one 1985 strip which mentions a home computer, a video recorder and a microwave in the same panel.- For the most part though, as Hiley points out, Andy’s Hartlepool has remained in the era Smythe remembered there from his own youth.- “It would be difficult to think of any other popular cultural medium that stays as unchanging as, say, Andy Capp in the Mirror, or Fred Bassett’s suburban world in the Mail,” he says. “I think strip cartoonists create worlds that people get attached to, and they don’t want them to change.- “I don’t want to see Andy driving a car out to some multiplex in the suburbs of Hartlepool or going to some huge Weatherspoons pub. He deserves to drink in a proper back-street pub.”- Doing my research for this piece, I’d noticed that neither Smythe nor his successors have ever shown a black face in the strip. I could believe the town really had been that monocultural in Smythe’s day, but asked the current team if they were ever tempted to bring in a black character today.- “You’ve got to be a bit wary of bringing in ethnic characters just for the sake of it,” Garnett says. “I’m in the North quite a bit, and I think the demographic is still the same. It hasn’t changed that much.”- The most recent source available for Hartlepool’s demographics – the 2001 census – lists its population as 98.8% white. “We’ve got the cast of characters and we need to stick with that really,’ says Goldsmith.-————————(From: www.planetslade.com/andy-capp-reg-smythe14.html)
Mikeyj about 10 years ago
With our compliments, bev ! ^^Looks like a small bottle of Coca Cola