Biting Insects

Not To Be Confused With Biting Elbows -
 - who are a Russian rock band, and whom are responsible for the absolutely insane "I'm A Bad M**********r" video, which was the seed from which the film "Hardcore Henry" grew.  Here is a link to the video -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgox84KE7iY

     BUT BE WARNED!  The lyrics are very NSFW, which is why the title is asterisked out.
     Anyway, enough of what this post's not about.  Instead let us look at the Mosquito.  No!  Not the annoying biting fly, the wooden-framed aircraft of the Second Unpleasantness, as flown by the brylcreem boys of the RAF.  Art?

It has quite the bite

     These things bristled with cannons and machine guns, and also carried bombs, rockets, bouncing bombs and any general unpleasantness that could be fitted onto them.  One thing that made them the business was that their fixed gun armament was concentrated all in the nose; four cannons and machine guns thus fired in a quite narrow cone of fire.  Art?

Some unfortunate Teutons are about to have a rather torrid time

     Okay, now, someone with a sense of evil (brother!) then obviously sat down and thought "How can we make this flying arsenal of death even more horrid?" and the devil on their shoulder came right back with "Let's stick an anti-tank gun on it!" so they did.  Art?

Enter the Tsetse

     That's Airfix box art, which was always terrific stuff.  Okay, so Perfidious Albion took the six-pounder anti-tank gun, and converted it into what became known as the Molins gun, after an automatic feed mechanism.  Art?

The Gun'

     This thing could fire one shell per second, and the 'Tsetse' model of Mosquito (biting insects, remember?) carried 21 shells.  These shells were six pounds in weight and made of solid steel, intended to go through whatever they hit, making holes beneath the waterline.  Tsetses were used to hunt U-boats and surface shipping, and U976 went to the bottom twenty minutes after encountering two Tsetses. 
     Now, these things were designed and intended to hunt marine targets, and the crews were trained to do same - although we are talking about Perfidious Albion here, and on one occasion an unfortunate Ju88 mixed it up in combat with several Tsetses. It did not end well for the Ju88 - being hit by a high-velocity solid steel anti-tank shell will frequently put a crimp in your day - which had an entire engine shot off.

Needs insect repellent

     And there you have it.  Perfidious Albion: always thinking of ways to make your bad hair day the very worst possible!
     Okay, time to sit the motley backwards on a camel and release the bats!*

Mister Ed
Not to be confused with Mister E, who is the driving and creative force behind Eels, and whose dad put forward the 'Many Worlds' model of quantum physics.

Er -

     No, this Mister is Mister Ed, which was a Fifties television show featuring a talking horse.  Art?

Stable genius?

     Well, kind of a talking horse.  Only the human above, named Wilbur, could hear him, which made for endless comedy japes.  Almost endless; they made 143 episodes of this.  I suppose they were less fussy in the Fifties.
     The story behind the series is interesting, because the chap who made the 'Francis the Talking Mule' films wanted to do them as a television series, and couldn't get permission.  He came across collected short stories about Mister Ed, optioned that and Hay Pesto! you have a comedy classic born.  In fact Mickey Rooney initially intended to make the series, until he was suddenly stricken with common sense.  Perhaps.

Mister Ed talks!

     The horse that - er - portrayed Mister Ed was pretty clever.  He learned that when the actor stopped speaking, he, Mister Ed, was required to speak - so he contorted his mouth appropriately.**

Conrad - Asking The Big Questions
Either that, or I'm a bit peculiar.*** Okay, I've just finished watching Season One of 'The Defenders', the Marvel mash-up that features Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Ironfist (more conventionally known as Danny Rand) and Matt Murdoch (more conventionally known as Daredevil) and one thing did stick with me.

Matt, being all daring and devilish

     Where did Matt get his suit from?  I admit this may have been addressed in the television series about him specifically and which I haven't yet seen, but I do have to wonder.  He doesn't seem to have a sewing machine in his apartment, and you can't simply go to a seamstress and say "I want a red leather padded suit that enables me to fight crime anonymously".  For obvious reasons.
     Now, that superhero soap-opera comic book series 'Invincible' deals with this problem outright, by having a special costumier-to-the-stars who makes capes and cowls and the like for superheros. Introduction by word of mouth only, he's not on Craigslist or e-Bay.

Invincible   Posey rascal!

*  Or is that a song?
**  Yes really.  Trust me.  This is straight from the - Ah.  Yes.  Indeed.
*** Perhaps both.