Andy Capp by Reg Smythe for January 20, 2018

“Why has it got ‘Private Ben Bertand’ on the name tag,” Flo asks. “Uh… it was my {ahem} alias so as not to get caught by the enemy,” replies Andy.

Andy snookered the coat off him in a game of chance.

Aye Littlejohn, Andy flipped a coin with the old Tails I win, Heads you lose. And Ben,like ALL those who’ve lent Andy money,lost the bet and his coat. Next Andy will work (The ONLY work Andy ever does) on takin’ him for his money and finally his shirt,so that Ben can say he lost his shirt to Andy.

Andy’s mum still pinchin’ name tags is she?

Ben didn’t need it anymore.

Easy mistake. They were the same size.

Andy wasn’t always like this. Maybe he has ptsd.

or as Allan Sherman put it in The Drop-outs March: “Soon you will be in the army, just try dropping out of that!” Those of you who purchased the 45 record “Crazy Downtown” will recall that was the b side.

“That bugger Ben, put his name in MY jacket!”

That’s Andy’s real name, he’s AWOL because he owes the entire Royal Army money

What is it with “GO COMICS”. They don’t understand that I am not going to become a member and they just have to keep hounding me? I guess they think if they use enough ‘pop-ups’ that I’ll give in……WRONG. I’ll just go somewhere else. Must have voted for ShrilLIARy.

Doesn’t even look like a British Army jacket. Andy’s the reason they ended National Service.

And Private Ben Bertrand has a jacket with Private Andy Capp on it. Happened a lot at “kegers”

Can’t be Andy’s; it has NCO rank on it. Can you imagine Andy as anything but buck private?

SMYTHE CLASSIC

It was a long time ago Andy.

https://archive.cartoons.ac.uk/GetMultimedia.ashx?db=Catalog&fname=AC3232.jpg

Andy probably won it from him in a poker game.

How weird would it be if Ben Bertrand turned up at the pub?

He would recognise Andy and it would be like old times. It would be awkward if Ben mentioned his missing army coat as well.

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Am I the only person to have Googled Ben Bertrand?