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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: The Peepmaster on July 28, 2007, 10:04:50 AM
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I sit me, or does it have a spelling error in the caption? (http://www.comics.com/creators/andycapp/archive/images/andycapp2007071745828.gif)
I subscribe to this strip, so I get it delivered in my email each morning.
http://www.comics.com/creators/andycapp/index.html
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Hmmm I wonder if the lobsters came from the river Po?
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Toilet humour - I expect better from Andy Capp!
Actually, I read this over my first coffee of the day (I also get it 'delivered'), and didn't pick up on it. Had it been the second coffee, I would have.
Obviously Mr Mahoney lettered it during his first coffee, and Mr Kettle is totally innocent.
Hmmm I wonder if the lobsters came from the river Po?
;D ;D ;D
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I AM innocent! I've just checked my original sketch and I had written "shanties". Mr. Mahoney is responsible for this one, Tarks.
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Thanks, Roger - I'm only on my third cuppa, so not immune to my own mistakes. I have amended my previous post, and apologise to Mr Christine for any unintentional libel. As for Mr Mahoney... :P
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Keep an eye on Mr Maloney, Roger. I saw another of the strips recently where he had the word "and" twice in succession.
Actually, you can have the word "and" five times in a row.
Signwriter writes "Fish And Chips" above a shop. the owner comes out and says "Very nice, but you've left too much space between "Fish" and "And", and "And" and "Chips".
Now, had I written: "Very nice, but you've left too much space between "Fish" and "And", and "And" and "Chips", readers of this post could say that I have left too much space between "Fish" and "and" and "and" and "And" and "And" and "and" and "and" and "And" and "And" and "and" and "and" and "Chips".
That's 21 "ands" in a row.
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Peepmaster, I bet you're one of these people who likes to end a sentence with as many prepositions as possible.
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Peepmaster, I bet you're one of these people who likes to end a sentence with as many prepositions as possible.
That is the kind of remark up with which I will not put.
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Have you read "The Complete Plain Words"?
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Ordinarily.
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In the "up with", only the "with" is a preposition.
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Fascinating.
What was it again?
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Too many hours spent in the library reading "Usage and Abusage", "Fowler's Modern English Usage", "Mind the Stop", "The King's English", "The Queen's English" and so on.
I promise I won't mention prepositions again.
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Wouldn't it be funny if the Complete Book Of Plain Words only contained one word - "Plain" ?
Chanty is the old Scots word for a potty.
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Thanks, Malc - I had been racking by brains about the River Po and Toilet humour references...
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Keep an eye on Mr Maloney, Roger. I saw another of the strips recently where he had the word "and" twice in succession.
Actually, you can have the word "and" five times in a row.
Signwriter writes "Fish And Chips" above a shop. the owner comes out and says "Very nice, but you've left too much space between "Fish" and "And", and "And" and "Chips".
Now, had I written: "Very nice, but you've left too much space between "Fish" and "And", and "And" and "Chips", readers of this post could say that I have left too much space between "Fish" and "and" and "and" and "And" and "And" and "and" and "and" and "And" and "And" and "and" and "and" and "Chips".
That's 21 "ands" in a row.
Marvellous, Peepsie! If you were a dog, you'd chase your tail.
I've been to Conwy today. You should all go.
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I've been to Conwy today. You should all go.
Been there, took a picture, had my camara stolen out of my car.
wont go there again.
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You can?t blame Mahoney ? English is such a tricky language?
CH for Charlotte?s Chandelier
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I've been to Conwy today. You should all go.
Been there, took a picture, had my camara stolen out of my car.
wont go there again.
Well, we spent a lovely day there, Peter, without any negative incidents whatsoever. And we came home with lots of nice cameras.
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;D That made me laugh.
I've been to Conwy, Llandudno, etc, it was compulsory when you lived in Manchester, like the Haj.
Lovely areas. Bit dreich on the days I remember, but you could imagine it all looking nice when it was finished.
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A lot of UK seaside towns are very run down now. Llandudno is one of the exceptions. It is quite smart and has an air of prosperity about it.
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Yes, it's improved since it became the UK's gay capital.
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Yes, it's improved since it became the UK's gay capital.
Really? When did it take over from Morecambe?
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Harumph...you guys been watching the football?
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I take it you're referring to beating the mighty Livingstone 1-0? It was only a friendly, so hopefully you played your second string squad. On the other hand maybe they did too.
Over here we've been enduring Australia's first foray into the Asian Cup, a pretty decent standard competition that the other Asian nations didn't want us in for the last twenty years. We got knocked out in the quarter finals against Japan, which went to penalties.
Previous to this, Australia has had to endure being the big fish in a tiny pool, that pool being the nations of the Oceania group, (Solomon Islands, Cook Islands, Tonga, etc) the only other half decent team being New Zealand, and I mean HALF decent. NZ traditionally put out a team of second rate ex nearly-professionals who had emigrated from the UK.
Australia, on the other hand have now got quite a few real deal top standard players and they were expected to win the Asia Cup, but no-one told Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Korea, Vietnam and the others, who behaved with disgusting lack of manners by playing brilliantly.
There were the usual stupid time-wasting tactics, but they were all at the instigation of imported coaches, from eastern Europe and South America.
The Asian Cup is the best thing to happen to Aussie football since they qualified for the World Cup, and I hope it helps develop better Aussie players (who of course will all then move to Europe).
You wouldn't believe this in the modern day and age but the Oceania cup competition (part of the FIFA qualifying for the World Cup) which featured Harry Kewell and Mark Viduka, was run from the front room of a bloke who lived in Auckland.
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Actually, Malc, I was just parodying Steve Martin in "Trains, Planes and Automobiles" when he turned all macho after the atmosphere had become distinctly gay.
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I've never been to Morecambe. Just for the record.
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Actually, Malc, I was just parodying Steve Martin in "Trains, Planes and Automobiles" when he turned all macho after the atmosphere had become distinctly gay.
I just want to point out that I got the joke, which is why I did not make a stupid answer about never watching football.
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And I manfully resisted posting the line "What did I miss, sweetie?", though I'm slightly ashamed to admit that, and I don't quite know why.
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Harumph...you guys been watching the football?
I did not get the joke and yes I have been watching football and I think Iraq did brill
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I think I just wanted to tell you that anyway.
I'm not running away from that side of my sexuality.
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I'm not running away from that side of my sexuality.
There are many who would, Malc.
Look, I'd hate for anyone to think I was in the slightest bit homophobic. Some of my best friends lived next door to a couple who once went on holiday with their cousins who drove past a library every day (on their way to work) that once loaned out a book by Oscar Wilde.
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It was good to see Iraq winning the Cup; and with a team representing many of the different factions from that country. Now why can't all the world's battles be played out on the sports field?
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just for a little time the whole country came together
we can only hope
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I joined up the Comics people and am getting Andy Cap daily in my email ? I got my first one today.
I don?t understand why they say ?Hi null? as a greeting ? but am hoping by the end of the week it makes sense.
If you don?t mind me saying, there was not much going on the right hand side of the comic ? I think Andy need to get himself a house cat or a potted plant.
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Mine says "Hi null null"!
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I've never written "Hi, null" in my life! What IS this?
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Mine arrives with the Null greeting also. Roger, it's nothing you've done, but the salutation that is electronically attached to every emailing of Andy Capp. I think we probably all missed entering our names somewhere when registering, and Null was the default name to send it to.
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Good grief - you are so clever Tarqs.
How did Peepmaster get the double 'null' though?
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He forgot to enter his name twice.
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Ah.
I thought it was one hell of a spelling mistake to make from "Hi, Chalkie".
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Malc, isn't this some ungodly hour for you to be up and about?
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I think Malc has his postings set on a time delay, whereby they are delivered at an appointed hour whilst he sleeps.
Usually, the system explains the eccentric nature of the vast majority of Malc's posts that we have all come to cherish. This time, I believe, he just got lucky.
Thanks, Diane.
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There is no such thing as an ungodly hour. Not for me at any rate. I love the early hours of the morning as I feel I have the whole world to myself. I often sleep in the early evening so I can work through till 3am then go to bed until 8am.
Depending on the job at hand.
I used to work on Dangermouse as a day job, go to the pub, get home for 10pm, work on cartoons through till 6am (drinking wine to stay AWAKE?) then sleep for 2 hours before getting up to go to work on Dangermouse again.
At this time in my life I was:
(a) animating on Dangermouse.
(b) animating on a cartoon series called Fiddly Foodle Bird.
(c) writing and drawing my Blacknose The Pirate strip.
(d) writing and drawing a Sunday strip for News Of The World
all at the same time (the strip work was done at weekends), and I was also playing three games of football a week and was a very heavy pub drinker.
I cannot believe how I did all that, because now I only need to look at the photograph of a pint of Guinness and I'm drowsy.
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Malc, I think I had your heart attack.
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I never had a salutation on mine. Just a "Hi null null".
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Three months of Andy Capp in my inbox and now I am a fan. I never did like Andy Capp when I was a kid - I thought him an uncouth mean little git. Now I think he is a cuddly lazy sod.
Well done Roger.
Why don't we have a forum for him too?
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Three months of Andy Capp in my inbox and now I am a fan. I never did like Andy Capp when I was a kid - I thought him an uncouth mean little git. Now I think he is a cuddly lazy sod.
Well done Roger.
Why don't we have a forum for him too?
You're quite right - he has changed personality. "Cuddly lazy sod", definitely sums him up well now. You should buy some of the many old books on eBay that will show this. There's a warmth about the drawing, etc that there didn't used to be.
Of course times change. Today's offering on the web mentions a "calculator", which wouldn't have existed years ago. http://www.comics.com/creators/andycapp/index.html
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"Cuddly"?
Somewhere, I have gone horribly wrong.
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Roger, perhaps Peepmaster meant "huggable" or "snuggly" - you know, "cute" and "downright neighbourly", er . . . "pussycat"?
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Roger, perhaps Peepmaster meant "huggable" or "snuggly" - you know, "cute" and "downright neighbourly", er . . . "pussycat"?
Nah - it's just one of those phenomena whereby there is a subconscious confusion, if not morphing, between the author and the character. I often came across this when I was writing Bananaman.
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Roger, perhaps Peepmaster meant "huggable" or "snuggly" - you know, "cute" and "downright neighbourly", er . . . "pussycat"?
Nah - it's just one of those phenomena whereby there is a subconscious confusion, if not morphing, between the author and the character. I often came across this when I was writing Bananaman.
What slip on a banana skin
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The song The Day we went to Bangor should have been called The Day we went to Rhyll.
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What??
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You didn't expect it to make sense did you?
It was when I read these bits about places in Wales. I went for a holiday to Anglesey once [once, not twice {still listening?}] and got on the chat with once of the locals who revealed that the song The Day we went to Bangor was inspired by a visit to Rhyll. Apparently Rhyll, not Bangor, is where all the action is, but Rhyll didn't scan.
OK?
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I see what you mean. The references to Welsh places came about three pages and four months ago but I see what you mean.
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Lamb biryanni thanks.
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It was more likely to have been called "The Day We Went To Rhyl". (After the Welsh town that has only one "l" in it, - me being extremely pedantic).
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Your punctuation is awful: a comma followed by a dash?
Oh, for God's sake, give it here; let me do it:
It was more likely to have been called "The Day We Went To Rhyl" (after the Welsh town that has only one "l" in it - me being extremely pedantic).
:)
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I had a comma followed by dash the other day. It was no fun, I can tell you. I think the chicken must have been off, and I only just made it.
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I had a comma followed by dash the other day. It was no fun, I can tell you. I think the chicken must have been off, and I only just made it.
If you only just made it. It should have been fine unless you did not cook the chicken enough.
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It's a bit like a Dachshund chasing its tail.
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As we say in my country, "He who can put two 'n's in biryani, can put two 'l's in Rhyl."