“Andy Capp” is the local pronunciation of “handicap.”
Doesn’t really describe the character, though, does it? 
… derp
But that is the meaning, according to Wikipedia. Maybe it’s his personality that’s the handicap.
That strip has a vociferous following in the Bangkok Post. A couple of years ago, they announced they would stop running it and were bombarded with letters. They published some. One letter writer was suspiciously named Bud Weiser, and I’m not sure the paper got the joke. Possibly a handful of Brit retirees in Pattaya got together to send all the letters, dunno, but the Post backtracked and reinstated Andy Capp with much fanfare.
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I’d have to guess either Flo or his alcoholism. Or gambling. Or maybe he’s Flo’s handicap in life.
Anyway, I’ve always loved the strip too. I didn’t know it was still being done.
His 'andicap is that he doesn’t pronounce a leading H.
I haven’t read the strip in years, but didn’t Andy Capp also golf a lot?
No, I’ve never seen him play golf. He’s not the type. Pool and rugby, that’s about it.
Not the right class at all. As Siam Sam says, Andy’s more the beer and skittles down t’pub bracket than the St. Andrew’s bracket.
Wasn’t he into horse racing and betting?
Yes, that too. As a matter of fact, Saturday’s strip saw him and Flo at the track. He’s also into pigeon racing.
I don’t think this has been mentioned yet, and it may be a bit more obscure, but I read a J.R.R. Tolkien short story when I was a kid called “Leaf By Niggle.” In it, there was an artist named Niggle who in the first half of the story was constantly distracted from his paintings by troublesome tasks he had to do for his neighbor Mr. Parish. He was also annoyed by the thought of a journey he would have to be taking at some point in the future, that he didn’t really want to go on. This culminated in his running what he thought to be a wholly unnecessary errand for Mr. Parish, riding his bicycle through cold and rainy weather when he was already coming down with a case of the flu. After running this errand, he arrived home to find somebody waiting for him to take him on the journey he had been dreading, being very rushed and insistent and not leaving Niggle any time to collect his things. The second half of the story is quite different, where Niggle is first confined to a dark room, listened to voices in the darkness discussing his behavior, and finally he’s sent off to a different and much more pleasant country and surprised to be accompanied by his neighbor Parish.
As a kid it just seemed an odd story to me, but looking back now it seems obvious that the journey he’d been dreading was in fact death. Niggle had died of pneumonia after his rainy bicycle ride, and the entire second half of the story was set in his afterlife.
All I remember about Andy Capp is that he is a huge drunk and that his wife makes snarky comments to him about it.
OK, I just saw this.
Well, it might be if it were true. Actually it is red and green that additively make yellow.
Saw Anchorman 2 last night. Just figured out why Steve Carrell’s character is called Brick. Because he’s thick as one.
I never noticed that. It’s in the fine tradition of British cartoon characters, though. Arguably the first newspaper cartoon* was Ally Sloper, who came to headline a feature – Ally Sloper’s Half-Holiday. “Ally Sloper” was “Alley Sloper” – someone who snuck off (“sloped”) down an alley to escape his creditors. Like Andy, Ally was a habitual drinker, with the drinker’s nose to prove it.
*In US histories, they say that Richard Outcalt’s The Yellow Kid from the New York World was (that turns out not to be true, though, even for the US). But Ally Sloper is older than The Yellow Kid by three decades.
He looks remarkably like WC Fields! :eek:
I always thought it was these guys:
MAD Magazine once did obituaries for beloved comics characters. The Katzenjammer Kids were blown up while working on a homemade bomb intended for the Captain and the Inspector. The obituary noted they had been expelled from Germany in 1913 for being “too warlike.”
My favorite was “Prince Valiant, a crusading knight, died today of natural causes. He was 649.”
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…and the Playboy magazine had a woman in a sky full of stars on its cover.