Andy Capp by Reg Smythe for July 23, 2016

Why do those boys even do Pub Quizes if they also don’t know their country’s most famous playwright?

I’m with you lads …………

It’s definitely not the termagant Flo…………

I believe the answer is Petruchio. It’s been almost 40 years since I read The Taming of the Shrew and watched a performance of it in my high-school Shakespeare class, but it remains one of my favorite Shakespeare plays to this day.

Chalky is correct in a way – it is the shrew, i.e. Katherina.

The phrase includes nineteen characters. the central character is the tenth, the letter o of the word of.

I’ve earned that free pint?

Petrucio was in Romeo and Juliet.

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Ed Sullivan liked to remind his audience that he was going to have a “really big shrew”………

Of course the real joke is that Andy and Chalkie think that Jackie is talking about the actual animal…….

If he could, he wouldn’t be asking for help. Now would he?

I’m just as clueless as Chalkie. I’ve never even heard of it.

To any snobby commenters aged 50+ I did have a decent education. We just never covered that play.

xxx

Eiizabeth Taylor