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Offline The Peepmaster

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Re: Today's Andy Capp cartoon on the web.
« Reply #45 on: July 31, 2007, 04:09:50 PM »
I never had a salutation on mine. Just a "Hi null null".
Nostalgia is not what it used to be. 😟

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Re: Today's Andy Capp cartoon on the web.
« Reply #46 on: November 06, 2007, 03:45:36 AM »
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?

People will come from strange lands to hear me speak my words of wisdom. They will ask me the secret of life and I will tell them. Then maybe I'll finish off with a song. The Nomad

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Re: Today's Andy Capp cartoon on the web.
« Reply #47 on: November 06, 2007, 08:32:34 AM »
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
Nostalgia is not what it used to be. 😟

Offline Roger Kettle

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Re: Today's Andy Capp cartoon on the web.
« Reply #48 on: November 06, 2007, 09:12:12 AM »
"Cuddly"?
Somewhere, I have gone horribly wrong.

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Re: Today's Andy Capp cartoon on the web.
« Reply #49 on: November 06, 2007, 10:29:11 AM »
Roger, perhaps Peepmaster meant "huggable" or "snuggly" - you know, "cute" and "downright neighbourly", er . . . "pussycat"?

Offline Tarquin Thunderthighs lll

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Re: Today's Andy Capp cartoon on the web.
« Reply #50 on: November 06, 2007, 11:53:32 AM »
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.
I apologise, in advance.

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Re: Today's Andy Capp cartoon on the web.
« Reply #51 on: November 06, 2007, 02:57:56 PM »
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

Fyodor

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Re: Today's Andy Capp cartoon on the web.
« Reply #52 on: November 07, 2007, 06:57:38 PM »
The song The Day we went to Bangor should have been called The Day we went to Rhyll.

Offline Roger Kettle

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Re: Today's Andy Capp cartoon on the web.
« Reply #53 on: November 07, 2007, 07:54:16 PM »
What??

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Re: Today's Andy Capp cartoon on the web.
« Reply #54 on: November 08, 2007, 09:38:40 AM »
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.
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Offline Roger Kettle

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Re: Today's Andy Capp cartoon on the web.
« Reply #55 on: November 08, 2007, 09:50:00 AM »
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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Re: Today's Andy Capp cartoon on the web.
« Reply #56 on: November 08, 2007, 01:25:09 PM »
Lamb biryanni thanks.

Offline The Peepmaster

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Re: Today's Andy Capp cartoon on the web.
« Reply #57 on: November 08, 2007, 03:12:50 PM »
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).
Nostalgia is not what it used to be. 😟

Offline Mince

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Re: Today's Andy Capp cartoon on the web.
« Reply #58 on: November 08, 2007, 03:21:24 PM »
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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Offline Tarquin Thunderthighs lll

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Re: Today's Andy Capp cartoon on the web.
« Reply #59 on: November 08, 2007, 04:16:02 PM »
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.
I apologise, in advance.