Andy Capp by Reg Smythe for July 28, 2020

I’ve not a clue either, but I just know ’twas not Nosher.

@Number Three Today’s strip IS funny, our HERO Mr Andrew Capp can be judged by the company he keeps ,his pal Chalkie is not the brightest nail in the box is he? :o)My avatar is a photo of my two sons on Arthur’s wedding day which reminds me how much they come to help me when I need them , how was your day out in the sun? our day should be busy but calm I hope , but very hot in Malta :o{ take care and waiting to see your new avatar pal

Fortunately I don’t see a pugnacious, burly elderly gent with a fat ugly cigar standing around. A gentleman with an American mother and a noble father, who fought for Queen Victoria, and served the Crown over the years through the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. He was also quite a writer too.

He might shed some blood, sweat, and tears for the ignorance of his fellow English subjects in the history of the English people.

I don’t think there is an Englishman alive who doesn’t know the origin of that quotation. And I do not mean all the immigrants who have become citizens of the UK over the years.

I saw Winston Churchill’s funeral train pass through Oxford station in 1965 hauled by the steam locomotive number 34051 named after the famous statesman!

On the other hand my older brother Pete went down to Brighton on a motorcycle with one of his mates to participate in a beach punchup between the mods and the rockers, which became a tradition in Brighton.

Unfortunately his mate’s motor cycle collided with a lorry and they both went flying into the road and spent 2 weeks in hospital!

Sort of a connection to this strip!

And they both were locked up in the clink overnight.

Here’s another: who said, “You gotta fight, for your right, to paarrrtaaayyy!”?

It was stated a couple weeks back, and I agree. This strip has improved!

Didn’t help on the Channel Islands, there are still WW2 German gun emplacements and bunkers on them.

Today’s strip is further proof that we have a later Andy and Chalkie than the ones who served in World War II.

As Reg Smythe’s Andy once said, “The only war record that twit’s got is ‘Chattanooga Choo Choo’ by Glen Miller.”

Winston Churchill said it.

did Andy’s scarf change color?

On a BBC TV program(me) the British people voted him “The Greatest Of Them All”.

Good call, IMO.

Hmm, on the beaches? Just attack them on the ocean and in the air.

Churchill, and I’m not even British. I am old enough to have had history and not social indoctrination.

I can understand growing up with a name like “Nosher” and having to fight every day, but what’s Andy’s excuse?

From the most inspiring speech ever delivered by man. Hands down.

There are two men who will never be on Jeopardy.

Churchill.

Life’s a beach … unless you marry one!

templo sud, you should really learn how to use Google, you can find almost any kind of information there.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_shall_fight_on_the_beaches#:~:text=Winston%20Churchill.%20%22We%20shall%20fight%20on%20the%20beaches%22,of%20the%20United%20Kingdom%20on%204%20June%201940.

“Mr. Churchill says we gotta hold up our chins; we gotta show some courage and some discipline. We gotta black out the windows, and nail up the doors, and keep right on till the end of the war!” – Ray Davies, English composer/performer, from his opera "Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire), 1969 CE

Well, much as he’d like to take credit for it, we know it wasn’t BoJo the Clown who said it. Even his right brain, Cominic Dummings, couldn’t come up with that catchy phrase.

I visited Scarborough 9 years ago and stayed in a huge hotel by the sea. Was only there for a couple of days. Don’t recall seeing any fighting on the beach. All I saw was a group of people playing sports.

xxx

@Afficionado

It was blowing a gale here today so decided not to go to the beach. I prefer calmer days. It might be better tomorrow and then I’ll go.

Your two sons are very handsome. Can’t imagine how proud of them you are.

My avatar today is me after removing my French braids taken nearly 2 weeks ago. That’s how my hair is all wavy and flowing. Or “Flo”-ing. Number Six commented under the photo on Facebook and said “Lovely eyes” which gave me the idea for the title of the photo.

Bigger version here:

https://flic.kr/p/2jnysrL

Fingers crossed the wind stops and the sun is out so I can go to the beach tomorrow, pal.

Chalkie, you forgot the ‘famously’ part.

looks like they ran out of red ink in the third panel

Andy may have said that, but Winston Churchill said it first.

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” The Battle of Britain was fought in the skies over England. “This is not the end. This is not the beginning of the end. This is the end of the beginning.”

Winston Churchill. What did I win?