Andy Capp by Reg Smythe for February 03, 2020

cheaters ne’er prosper

@Linguist Today’s strip is slightly funny, our HERO Mr Andrew Capp’s forte is cheating and not only at cards :o) my avatar is of a guy trying to kill a fly with a shotgun , I would like to do that but my better half won’t let me ;o{ how was your day my dear less old friend? our Manic Monday should be busy and hectic as usual , a bientot , have a nice day Cappers past and present

He wasn’t lying about not having any aces!

Maurice is bluffin’, he’s the one with the aces up his sleeves.

The only deck Brudder Capp never tried to stack was the one on Noah’s Ark

Never leave anything to cruel chance, eh, Capp?

Funny thing— I was just reading about Wild Bill Hickock’s “dead man’s hand”.

Maurice seems surprised. I guess he doesn’t know Andy very well.

It’s one thing to be a cheat. It’s another to be a bad one.

It’s only fair when everybody is cheating.

I assume they aren’t even playing for money, and he is still a worthless cheater. If he had a kid ( god forbid), he would probably cheat in a game with his own kid.

I had a friend, Black Jack Farrell, who in his time, was one of the best card and dice mechanics I have ever encountered. Jack used to say that 90% of the time he didn’t need to cheat. He could rely on his own incredible memory and the suckers’ inability to play cards or throw dice…

I have seen him do a demonstration, where someone else would shuffle a fresh deck of cards and another person would cut them, then Jack would deal and tell you exactly what hand he’d dealt to each person!

Natch.

Even when he’s telling the truth, Andy is being dishonest.