Atomic Weasel

No!  This Is Not A Syfy Film

Although you would be forgiven, since there is already a cinematic offering out there entitled "Atomic Shark", which your humble scribe hesitates to even check out on IMDB.

     No, today's title is a hearken back to your modest artisan's testing of the internet, to see if some silly combination of purblind inconsequentiality actually generated a result.  It did when I Googled "Were-whale" and then, because we here at BOOJUM! are nothing if not out there in the left field's left field, I decided to try out nuclear technology and small lithe carnivores.  Art?

Weaselly-atomic

     There you go.  This is obviously a detonation device used by NATO and their nuclear landmines along the Inner German Border, for when - oh - no - wait a minute, it's used by guitarists as an effects pedal.  Ah.  Well, there you go, a bit of a come-down.*

     Okay, if the foot-powered flunky really exists, which I do not admit for a second, that has nothing to do with LITHIUM-WAFER BATTE - except that has nothing to do with anything, either.

     There you go again.  Proof, if it were needed, that anything is automatically made better with the prefix "Atomic".**

     Enough wibble - let us push the oarless motley out onto the boating lake amidst a bevy (the correct name for a collective) of enraged swans!

Banging On Again
Almost literally, in this case.  In a footnote to the Battle of Medenine, which I have been recapitulating for your elucidation, let us introduce the mighty 3.7" anti-aircraft gun, as used by Perfidious Albion.  Art?

With puny humans for scale.

     Here an aside.  Much is made of the Teuton's use of their 88 mm anti-aircraft gun in an anti-tank role, and I note that bafoon Fussell quoting it as the best weapon of the Second Unpleasantness.  Hardly.  It could knock out British tanks at a mile distant, yes, but it was an enormous piece of kit, far bigger than a barn door, meaning it was an inviting target.  To dig it in required excavating at least 50 tons of earth and rock, and it needed an equally large towing vehicle - two big targets for the price of one!  When Perfidious Albion started getting splendidly reliable South Canadian tanks that fired high-explosive shells, the life-expectancy of 88 mm gun crews abruptly dropped.
     Back on track.

3.7" - in case you'd forgotten

     This gun fired an even bigger shell than the dreaded 88 mm, so people ask why Perfidious Albion didn't use it to shoot tanks?  Anti-aircraft guns tend to have very high muzzle velocities, in order to shoot down those annoying aircraft types, and a very flat trajectory, for the better calculation of how to shoot down said annoying types, both of which make them incidentally good at shooting those equally annoying tank types.
     I shall explain, but not today, as we've had enough of ancient artillery models, and plus I can see your brain glazing over.

Brian Glazer.  Close enough.

"Dramaturge"
I always wondered what on earth this was, or possibly off-Earth, ever since seeing it as the title of a sci-fi novel: "The Dramaturges of Yan".  By John Brunner, I think.
       Art?

Looks impressive, nicht war?
(Probably worthy and dull)

     It turns out that Ol' John wasn't making it up, as a dramaturge is a real proper job/person, involving liaison between a theatre staging a play, and the author of said play, yeah even to the extent of doing editorial work on the play.
     There's a joke in there somewhere but!  the phones are heating up and I need to go do that work thing, which is what they pay me for.***


Next!


What The Best-Dressed Cake Is Wearing
You have seen my naked Sticky Date, Rum and Caramel Cake, although at the time it hadn't been given a topping of Dulce de Leche.  Art?

At work

     There you go.  On advisement the pieces are rather small, as the topping is basically spreadable toffee and makes the whole thing taste remarkably sweet.  Of course your humble scribe has to take other people's word about how delicious it was, because - that caramel is a clue - I cannot partake.  THANK YOU DIABETES THANK YOU SO MUCH!
     <pauses to calm his racing pulse and seething rage>

Finally -

Lest ye forget -

Sharks Are Our Friends!

*  NATO nuclear land-mines were a real thing.
**  Except Atomic itself, of course.
***  Even prospective world dominators gotta eat.