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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: The Peepmaster on December 28, 2009, 07:12:07 PM

Title: Andy Capp Grammar
Post by: The Peepmaster on December 28, 2009, 07:12:07 PM: I bet you anguished about the grammar in the first frame of this strip (http://comics.com/andy_capp/2009-12-28/), Roger.

I know it's correct, but it's not really the vernacular, is it?
Title: Re: Andy Capp Grammar
Post by: Diane CBPFC on December 28, 2009, 08:22:20 PM: I'm surprised that (1) Andy has more than one shirt. (2) Andy has ironed shirts - we only do that for weddings and funerals.
Title: Re: Andy Capp Grammar
Post by: Roger Kettle on December 28, 2009, 08:23:08 PM: Yes, I did think about this. I spent about twenty minutes trying to decide if "is" or "are" sounded better in the context of the sentence. In the end, I thought **** it, bung something in. I try to take the intellectual approach.
Title: Re: Andy Capp Grammar
Post by: The Peepmaster on December 29, 2009, 04:25:21 PM: I love Flo's expression in the first 2 frames of today's strip (http://comics.com/andy_capp/2009-12-29/), Roger.
Title: Re: Andy Capp Grammar
Post by: Roger Kettle on December 29, 2009, 06:20:19 PM: Yes, it works really well. I hate drawing Andy and Flo full-face in my scripts---it's really difficult!
Title: Re: Andy Capp Grammar
Post by: The Peepmaster on December 29, 2009, 06:26:10 PM: When are you going to change your avatar back to normal, Roger? (Obviously not yet, as it's still December.) I hope you kept a copy of the original before you altered it.
Title: Re: Andy Capp Grammar
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on December 29, 2009, 06:55:39 PM: Oh, £$%^!
Title: Re: Andy Capp Grammar
Post by: The Peepmaster on December 29, 2009, 07:02:53 PM: It'll look a bit stupid come July if Roger hasn't changed it back. ..0

I'm sure it wasn't anything to do with you, Tarquin. Initially I did smell pilchardry at work, I have to admit.
Title: Re: Andy Capp Grammar
Post by: Jack on December 31, 2009, 12:56:01 AM: (http://www.italianidifrontiera.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/carlo-di-rudio.jpg)

I used a wonderful site (link) (http://www.tineye.com) to find it. You can upload a picture, or link to one, and it will search the internet to find pictures that resemble it.

Apparently, Santa Custer with a wonky eye is still close enough to the original for it to pick up on.
Title: Re: Andy Capp Grammar
Post by: Roger Kettle on December 31, 2009, 09:46:17 AM: IT'S NOT CUSTER!!!
Sorry, Jack, but I keep having to explain this. It's Charles de Rudio. He WAS at the Little Bighorn but had previously been a drummer boy with Garibaldi, tried to blow up Napoleon lll, was pardoned on the steps of the guillotine, escaped from Devil's Island and commanded an all-black unit in the American Civil War. A truly amazing man.
That's it.
Title: Re: Andy Capp Grammar
Post by: Charles de Rudio on December 31, 2009, 11:17:31 AM: And he looks a bit like Roger Kettle.
Title: Re: Andy Capp Grammar
Post by: The Peepmaster on December 31, 2009, 11:44:47 AM: Quote from: Roger Kettle on December 31, 2009, 09:46:17 AM
drummer boy with Garibaldi

I've got all their albums.

Quote from: Roger Kettle on December 31, 2009, 09:46:17 AM
tried to blow up Napoleon lll

I've always wanted an inflatable Napoleon.

Quote from: Roger Kettle on December 31, 2009, 09:46:17 AM
commanded an all-black unit in the American Civil War.

What was he doing captaining The New Zealand rugby team?
Title: Re: Andy Capp Grammar
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on December 31, 2009, 12:10:09 PM: ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Andy Capp Grammar
Post by: Mince on December 31, 2009, 12:41:35 PM: The grammar is wrong anyway. It should be "none of my shirts am ironed".
Title: Re: Andy Capp Grammar
Post by: The Peepmaster on December 31, 2009, 03:07:17 PM: Quote from: Mince on December 31, 2009, 12:41:35 PM
The grammar is wrong anyway. It should be "none of my shirts am ironed".

Oops, he slipped into Peter mode, without posting from that account.
Title: Re: Andy Capp Grammar
Post by: Diane CBPFC on December 31, 2009, 06:04:46 PM: Jack that was very nice of you to go to all that trouble to find Roger's Custer avatar.
Title: Re: Andy Capp Grammar
Post by: Jack on December 31, 2009, 06:22:22 PM: I've a good mind to delete my post.

Find your own damn non-Custer in future!

Besides, how do you know this "Charles de Rudio" didn't use the name "Santa Custer" on occasion?

You don't. So there.

(I don't know... try to do someone a favour... grumble grumble....)
Title: Re: Andy Capp Grammar
Post by: The Peepmaster on December 31, 2009, 07:33:00 PM: I think we should have a New Year Quiz for Kettle and Mince. (Sounds like a double-act.)

Kettle can have questions on Computing, set by Mince.

Mince has questions about Football, set by Kettle.

Good idea?
Title: Re: Andy Capp Grammar
Post by: Jack on December 31, 2009, 07:42:42 PM: Unfair.

Mince knows how to google for answers.
Title: Re: Andy Capp Grammar
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on December 31, 2009, 08:10:26 PM: Ah, but Roger is a Dundee United fan. He'll have questions to ask that can never be found on Google.
Title: Re: Andy Capp Grammar
Post by: Jack on December 31, 2009, 08:44:21 PM: Oh, sorry. I thought you meant proper football.
Title: Re: Andy Capp Grammar
Post by: Vulture on January 01, 2010, 08:49:39 AM: Quote from: Jack on December 31, 2009, 08:44:21 PM
Oh, sorry. I thought you meant proper football.

;D ;D ;D