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Never really "got" Andy Capp or understood why it was treated as top-tier comic

It was on the front page of my paper's Sunday comics section...
black meetinghouse
  02/18/19
Never once laughed at Andy Capp Never laughed at Family C...
Mahogany Cerebral Resort Hissy Fit
  02/18/19
...
charismatic harsh personal credit line
  02/18/19
Right. But Family Circus was just a little one-panel thing....
black meetinghouse
  02/18/19
Family Circus is for old women with the easiest "kids s...
aphrodisiac slimy cuck therapy
  02/18/19
Yeah, it wasn't even really supposed to be funny I think.
black meetinghouse
  02/18/19
well it’s clearly no peanuts or c&h. otoh, it was ...
Aquamarine medicated indirect expression
  02/18/19
Maybe I just was't old enough to get it. Hagar was kind of...
black meetinghouse
  02/18/19
rate foxtrot as an hbo original series.
Aquamarine medicated indirect expression
  02/18/19
most of those old comics were no good
Greedy Flatulent Abode
  02/18/19
rick o'shay was decent...as was that one with the phantom--s...
Greedy Flatulent Abode
  02/18/19
Far Side was 180 as shit
Marvelous crackhouse
  02/19/19
maybe the best ever
Greedy Flatulent Abode
  02/19/19
why is it the two best comics of all time ended with the art...
Metal stock car location
  02/19/19
alley oop was good
Greedy Flatulent Abode
  02/18/19
Never read Alley Oop --wasn't it a dramatic comic. I never r...
Mustard hilarious stage
  02/19/19
eh, sort of in between drama and adventure...social commenta...
Greedy Flatulent Abode
  02/19/19
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith was ok
Greedy Flatulent Abode
  02/18/19
WTF, I never ever heard of those
black meetinghouse
  02/18/19
about an old hillbilly man who lived in a shack up in the hi...
Greedy Flatulent Abode
  02/18/19
B.C. was good
Greedy Flatulent Abode
  02/18/19
Dick Tracy was ok
Greedy Flatulent Abode
  02/18/19
I liked Mister Boffo and of course the Far Side.
black meetinghouse
  02/18/19
Gasoline Alley --boring
Greedy Flatulent Abode
  02/18/19
Mary Worth--boring & worthless
Greedy Flatulent Abode
  02/18/19
Little Orphan Annie--mundane
Greedy Flatulent Abode
  02/18/19
Marmaduke--total bore
Greedy Flatulent Abode
  02/18/19
the phantom was pretty good...they had an asian cook whose b...
Greedy Flatulent Abode
  02/18/19
Prince Valiant was decent...so-so
Greedy Flatulent Abode
  02/18/19
is that the one where he comes home drunk and beats his wife
pontificating half-breed
  02/18/19
it doesn't quite go there, but close
Greedy Flatulent Abode
  02/18/19
yes, which is why you have to be mid thirties to understand ...
Laughsome church building
  02/19/19
[Flo] stands on the front step and shouts: “Me ‘...
Laughsome church building
  02/19/19
Its good working class brit humor
concupiscible slap-happy house
  02/18/19
1. Dilbert *huge gap* 2. Zits 3. Hagar the Horrible ...
frum bat shit crazy international law enforcement agency party of the first part
  02/19/19
(scott adams’ mom)
Aquamarine medicated indirect expression
  02/19/19
If you doubt that Dilbert isn't the best comic in history, y...
frum bat shit crazy international law enforcement agency party of the first part
  02/19/19
i’m just kidding. love dilbert. my favorite one was wh...
Aquamarine medicated indirect expression
  02/19/19
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspaper_comic_strips
Greedy Flatulent Abode
  02/19/19
Herman was 180
Slate irradiated factory reset button spot
  02/19/19
anyone else old enough to remember bloom county?
Metal stock car location
  02/19/19
*Crunch*
nighttime jap
  02/19/19
I liked Ask Shagg
Violet twinkling uncleanness roast beef
  02/19/19
Sherman’s Lagoon or GTFO
self-centered boltzmann preventive strike
  02/19/19
Read this article and I bet your views will change http:...
Curious know-it-all chapel ratface
  02/19/19
ty, this is the kind of scholarship I was looking for
black meetinghouse
  02/19/19
Jaysus! That is a dissertation not an article
Mustard hilarious stage
  02/19/19
let me sum up the entire strip for you: Andy likes to go out...
Silver Exciting Corn Cake Mediation
  02/19/19
his hot fries are pretty damn good
cordovan ticket booth police squad
  02/19/19
...
Mustard hilarious stage
  02/19/19
Equally good but very different from Chester's Hot Fries. ...
nighttime jap
  02/19/19
i never realized until now that andy capp was british, but t...
Heady copper codepig
  02/19/19
I didn't realize until years later that his name was a pun o...
black meetinghouse
  02/19/19
I never realized this until I read this post
Laughsome church building
  02/19/19
Great Hot Fries
diverse coiffed site
  02/19/19
...
walnut lascivious friendly grandma old irish cottage
  02/19/19
ran here
bearded principal's office useless brakes
  02/19/19


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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:20 PM
Author: black meetinghouse

It was on the front page of my paper's Sunday comics section, right under Peanuts, and later Calvin and Hobbes. It sucked, as far as I could tell (as a young child).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37805952)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:21 PM
Author: Mahogany Cerebral Resort Hissy Fit

Never once laughed at Andy Capp

Never laughed at Family Circus, never really “got” that one

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37805960)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:22 PM
Author: charismatic harsh personal credit line



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37805962)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:23 PM
Author: black meetinghouse

Right. But Family Circus was just a little one-panel thing. Andy Capp got top billing.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37805973)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:24 PM
Author: aphrodisiac slimy cuck therapy

Family Circus is for old women with the easiest "kids say the darndest thing" schtick ever. I don't think its good or impressive, but there is a certain amount of genius in the scam.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37805983)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:25 PM
Author: black meetinghouse

Yeah, it wasn't even really supposed to be funny I think.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37805989)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:22 PM
Author: Aquamarine medicated indirect expression

well it’s clearly no peanuts or c&h. otoh, it was much better than cathy or marmaduke. it was right in line with hagar the horrible and blondie.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37805967)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:24 PM
Author: black meetinghouse

Maybe I just was't old enough to get it.

Hagar was kind of funny sometimes.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37805978)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:27 PM
Author: Aquamarine medicated indirect expression

rate foxtrot as an hbo original series.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37805997)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:23 PM
Author: Greedy Flatulent Abode

most of those old comics were no good

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37805976)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:27 PM
Author: Greedy Flatulent Abode

rick o'shay was decent...as was that one with the phantom--steve canyon...

but brenda starr was not much good...

neither was Dondi...and what about that little girl with the black frizzy hair...nancy, was that her name?

Dagwood Bumstead was marginal...his sandwiches were the only good thing about it...sarge and beetle bailey was also stupid...

dennis the menace was annoying...and the tv show was worse..

l'il abner was ok...



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37805998)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 12:23 AM
Author: Marvelous crackhouse

Far Side was 180 as shit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806282)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 12:28 AM
Author: Greedy Flatulent Abode

maybe the best ever

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806294)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 8:54 AM
Author: Metal stock car location

why is it the two best comics of all time ended with the artist retiring early?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806941)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:39 PM
Author: Greedy Flatulent Abode

alley oop was good

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806071)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 10:32 AM
Author: Mustard hilarious stage

Never read Alley Oop --wasn't it a dramatic comic. I never read that shit (Dondi, The Phantom, Prince Valiant, etc.)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37807378)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 11:50 AM
Author: Greedy Flatulent Abode

eh, sort of in between drama and adventure...social commentary/parody, a lot of it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37807799)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:41 PM
Author: Greedy Flatulent Abode

Barney Google and Snuffy Smith was ok

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806085)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:46 PM
Author: black meetinghouse

WTF, I never ever heard of those

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806114)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:52 PM
Author: Greedy Flatulent Abode

about an old hillbilly man who lived in a shack up in the hills

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806151)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:44 PM
Author: Greedy Flatulent Abode

B.C. was good

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806102)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:46 PM
Author: Greedy Flatulent Abode

Dick Tracy was ok

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806113)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:47 PM
Author: black meetinghouse

I liked Mister Boffo and of course the Far Side.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806122)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:48 PM
Author: Greedy Flatulent Abode

Gasoline Alley --boring

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806125)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:50 PM
Author: Greedy Flatulent Abode

Mary Worth--boring & worthless

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806139)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:51 PM
Author: Greedy Flatulent Abode

Little Orphan Annie--mundane

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806145)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:53 PM
Author: Greedy Flatulent Abode

Marmaduke--total bore

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806153)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:57 PM
Author: Greedy Flatulent Abode

the phantom was pretty good...they had an asian cook whose button kept popping off his shirt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806170)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:59 PM
Author: Greedy Flatulent Abode

Prince Valiant was decent...so-so

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806181)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:54 PM
Author: pontificating half-breed

is that the one where he comes home drunk and beats his wife

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806160)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:58 PM
Author: Greedy Flatulent Abode

it doesn't quite go there, but close

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806177)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 10:13 AM
Author: Laughsome church building

yes, which is why you have to be mid thirties to understand its genius

I'm pretty sure his wife knowcking him on the head with a rolling pin was the punch line of a good 50% of these

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37807273)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 10:20 AM
Author: Laughsome church building

[Flo] stands on the front step and shouts: “Me ‘usband knocks me about!!” Andy responds with an announcement of his own: “Don’t believe a word she says! – She’s punch drunk!!”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37807319)



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Date: February 18th, 2019 11:57 PM
Author: concupiscible slap-happy house

Its good working class brit humor

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806171)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 12:03 AM
Author: frum bat shit crazy international law enforcement agency party of the first part

1. Dilbert

*huge gap*

2. Zits

3. Hagar the Horrible

4. Blondie

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806199)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 12:05 AM
Author: Aquamarine medicated indirect expression

(scott adams’ mom)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806208)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 12:06 AM
Author: frum bat shit crazy international law enforcement agency party of the first part

If you doubt that Dilbert isn't the best comic in history, you haven't read the other shitty ones.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806215)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 12:13 AM
Author: Aquamarine medicated indirect expression

i’m just kidding. love dilbert. my favorite one was when the boss was shown to be incompetent. classic! reminded me of my boss!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806245)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 12:08 AM
Author: Greedy Flatulent Abode

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspaper_comic_strips

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806228)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 12:12 AM
Author: Slate irradiated factory reset button spot

Herman was 180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806241)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 8:55 AM
Author: Metal stock car location

anyone else old enough to remember bloom county?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37806944)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 9:15 AM
Author: nighttime jap

*Crunch*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37807006)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 9:17 AM
Author: Violet twinkling uncleanness roast beef

I liked Ask Shagg

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37807009)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 9:23 AM
Author: self-centered boltzmann preventive strike

Sherman’s Lagoon or GTFO

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37807026)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 10:00 AM
Author: Curious know-it-all chapel ratface

Read this article and I bet your views will change

http://www.planetslade.com/andy-capp-reg-smythe-v3.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37807193)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 10:11 AM
Author: black meetinghouse

ty, this is the kind of scholarship I was looking for

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37807259)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 10:35 AM
Author: Mustard hilarious stage

Jaysus! That is a dissertation not an article

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37807389)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 10:10 AM
Author: Silver Exciting Corn Cake Mediation

let me sum up the entire strip for you: Andy likes to go out for beers with his mates and play some pool, darts, etc. His wife doesn't like it and drags him home.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37807253)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 10:28 AM
Author: cordovan ticket booth police squad

his hot fries are pretty damn good

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37807361)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 10:33 AM
Author: Mustard hilarious stage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37807384)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 1:03 PM
Author: nighttime jap

Equally good but very different from Chester's Hot Fries.

Sometimes I mix em up together in a bowl!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37808260)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 12:08 PM
Author: Heady copper codepig

i never realized until now that andy capp was british, but then again i haven't read one since i was probably 8

nor did i really get the "andy capp" play on words

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37807932)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 12:09 PM
Author: black meetinghouse

I didn't realize until years later that his name was a pun on "Handicap"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37807942)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 12:17 PM
Author: Laughsome church building

I never realized this until I read this post

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37807984)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 12:20 PM
Author: diverse coiffed site

Great Hot Fries

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37807994)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 1:04 PM
Author: walnut lascivious friendly grandma old irish cottage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37808263)



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Date: February 19th, 2019 1:15 PM
Author: bearded principal's office useless brakes

ran here

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4204650&forum_id=2#37808323)