Today's Andy Capp cartoon on the web.

[The Peepmaster]

I sit me, or does it have a spelling error in the caption?

I subscribe to this strip, so I get it delivered in my email each morning.

http://www.comics.com/creators/andycapp/index.html

[Max]

Hmmm I wonder if the lobsters came from the river Po?

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

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?

 

[Roger Kettle]

I AM innocent! I've just checked my original sketch and I had written "shanties". Mr. Mahoney is responsible for this one, Tarks.

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

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...

[The Peepmaster]

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.

[Mince]

Peepmaster, I bet you're one of these people who likes to end a sentence with as many prepositions as possible.

[The Peepmaster]

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.

[Mince]

Have you read "The Complete Plain Words"?

[The Peepmaster]

Ordinarily.

[Mince]

In the "up with", only the "with" is a preposition.

[The Peepmaster]

Fascinating.




What was it again?

[Mince]

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.

[Malc]

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.

[The Peepmaster]

Thanks, Malc - I had been racking by brains about the River Po and Toilet humour references...