Another Go At The Plum?

These Fruit Aphorisms Are Confusing
     You can have two bites at a cherry, by anecdote, so how many can you have at a plum?  Given the bite-to-size ratio, Conrad calculates four bites per plum, except that the blog posted earlier today counts as one, so this is the second bite for the second blog post, leaving two more, which means we can come back tomorrow for - 
    - oh, no, the dog's eaten the plum, stone and all.
     This probably won't harm the dog - which hoovers all kinds of crap off the floor into it's mouth on a daily basis - but now our metaphorical fruit has gone.  Damson it to hell!

A plum.  Yes, really

Oh Hello!
     Having a puppy is surprisingly similar to having a toddler - when things go quiet you know mischief is afoot.  Conrad ventured forth from the Upstairs Lair when Edna had been silent for almost sixty seconds, to discover her gumming this:

    No idea who it belongs to - except definitely not Conrad's as he has a deadly fear of makeup - but it has been rescued.  

Laugh Like A Drain
     This did come up as an asterisked mention recently.  DRAINS DO NOT LAUGH!  At least the well-trained, plumbed-in, sodium hydroxide-excoriated drains in BOOJUM!'s Mansion do not.  So what does it mean?
     A little research reveals that to "laugh like a drain" means to laugh in a loud and uncontrolled manner.  Er, hello, English idiomists?  There are many more appropriate analogies than a drain.  Laugh like a hysteria victim, laugh like a nitrous oxide addict, laugh like a bolt of lightning hitting a dynamite park - all equally as valid as a sordid and unpleasant bit of domestic pipework.

Laughing like a train.  Close enough.

Vertiginous
     As you must know by now, gentle reader, BOOJUM! attempts to include didactism amidst the diatribe, alongside the detail yet ahead of the disingenuous, all without the use of a safety-net or thesaurus.
     Here we are with another unusual word.  This word obviously - obviously! - means a type of green decorative marble, as used by the Romans when they were creating expensive commemorative facades on the facings of monuments, usually for the triumphal parades of emperors.  It could only - at a guess here - have come from a single particular quarry in the hinterlands of Germania, liable to be over-run by barbarians at any moment.

What "vertiginous" ought to mean!

     What's that?
     It's not?    
     It only means "steep"?
     Bah!  Reality, you are less interesting and artistic than green marble!

So - Tanks?
     Not quite.  No.  What we have tonight is the Daimler "Dingo", a reconnaissance vehicle intended to go ahead of the tanks and spy out the lie of the land.  See what the bally Hun was up to, where he was, where he wasn't, that type of thing.

A 3 ton wild dog

     Guns not the priority here - low silhouette and a quiet engine were, and the Dingo delivered both.  Also, it could be driven in reverse just as fast as forward - 50 m.p.h. - so if one encountered trouble in one's motorised steed, it was a simple matter to recede out of harm's way at high speed.

The kind of chap 8th Army would have had, out watching Rommel and the Italians