Andy Capp by Reg Smythe for May 29, 2022

enjoy the stagger home, Andy

what kinda vicar is this to believe promises uttered by Andy!!!?

Not so sober anymore huh

A man has gots to know his – limitations!!!

/SHMIRK/

Oh Vicar, no one likes a scold! Andy does a miracle some nights…when he drinks he turns wine (or ale) into water (the canal)

Give it up already, Vicar!!

There are some sots that can’t (or won’t) be cured.

Doesn’t the Vicar ever sleep??

He wasn’t going to drink any less so the best you could hope for was holding his limit. Come on Vicar. Be a sport and have a round with me.

The poor Vicar. He tries to steer Andy onto the path of righteousness. But Andy stumbles off the path with a fermented hop and barley remembers any stout advice given. With Andy’s lifestyle though, he doesn’t seem too bitter. But he is never lager-ly in trying to find some good cheer in the world. Even if his world seems to be the inside of a Pub.

He’s had enough.

Today’s strip reminds me of a Buster Keaton silent comedy where he was confused by twin girls and thought he was seeing double. He ran off and wrote “I resolve not to drink any more” then learned that they were twins so he ran back and added “but just as much”.

The truth emerges.

And not drink any less.

Funny!

Just not any less, goes the old joke.

I think Andy’s liver is going to make it into the Medical Hall of Fame.

I don’t think I’ll drink any more …

or any less!

I’m surprised Andy didn’t except that as a challenge, but it’d have to be somewhere else then the spotted duck.

Careful with that joke, son…it’s an antique. “I said I wouldn’t drink any more. I never said I’d drink any less.”

Better Spotted Duck than Spotted Dick I always say…

Andy found a loophole.