THE DEVIL CHUB OF BEELZEBUB!

Yes, I Admit It, Clutching At Past Glories
I did seem to get a lot of traffic with the "Death Herrings From Hades!" title, so perhaps this will attract all the curious anglers who can't quite reconcile the chub with such an abberant title.
     Well, excuse me!

Okay, okay, it's a Tiger Fish, not a chub.  But it might be mistaken for a chub -

The Chub -

LOOK OUT, MAN!  IT'S ATTACKING!

     Okay, maybe not.
     On with the Motlay*!

Confusing English:  Illicit and Elicit
These two words sound very similar, especially if said quickly.  Are they related?
     No.  Not at all.  What do they mean?
     "Illicit" simply means "forbidden or illegal", and - of course! - it has Latin roots.  From "In Lictas" and thence to "Illicitus".
     "Elicit" means "to obtain a response" and also originates - you're ahead of me here, aren't you? - from Latin, "In-Lacare", meaning "Out entice", thence to Elicere, meaning "Draw out" and so to Elicit, by the mid-seventeenth century.
     BOOJUM! of course avoids the illicit and cannot offer any analogy, except perhaps that Miley Cyrus ought to be illicit as she elicits a verrrry unfavourable critical response from Conrad**.

Miley's muse

Today At Work
As any fule know, tomorrow is Valentine's Day, when all those in a relationship point and laugh at all those not.
     This means today is Friday the Thirteenth, a day of dread, except we at my Still Mysterious And Un-named Employer*** decided to have our Valentine's Day early.
     Here is the "Wall of Crush", where brave souls had confessed to their first heart-fluttering attraction to the opposite sex, or the same sex, or Bugs Bunny.

People clustered around this all day long.

    Then there were the cakes:

     Though Conrad forgot to photograph his own, you can see the raw material here:

The "Pie" part of Vanilla and Cardamom Whoopee Pies

There was also a quiz composed by yours truly.  Don't know whether to post here as it's quite picture heavy.
      Actually I won't.  That way I have a little bait to tempt you back tomorrow, when traditionally blog traffic is low at BOOJUM!

Ah, Beethoven's "Ode To Joy"!  The theme music to Europe^. Why on earth can't more of the people that run things there begin their working day with this, putting them in a good mood?  It can't do any harm, surely?
     Oops.  Politics.  Sorry!

More Rejected Star Trek: The Next Generation Titles
I half-expected my site to have been nuked from orbit^^ by a hacking collective of outraged Star Trek Fans (who are known as "Starzies") after yesterday, but we appear to have gotten away with it, which only encourages naughty Conrad to continue.  On with the Mutley*!

"The Rattle" ("The Battle")

"Wide and Q" ("Hide and Q")

"Have" ("Haven")

"The Bit Goodbye" ("The Big Goodbye")

"Angelly One" ("Angel One")

"Home Soiled" ("Home Soil")

"We'll Always Have Parts" ("We'll Always Have Paris")

"Heart of Gloy" ("Heart of Glory")^^^

Let's see what those fans of this cult underperformer have to say about this!

The Mathematics Of Evil
I was going to throw away a concept here - it needs some working-up with figures to make sense, so expect to see it tomorrow.
     All the more reason to come back Saturday - tell all your friends!

A SHORT FILM INTERLUDE

Oh yes indeed.

"Fifty Shades of Grey"

A passing bus poster displayed this to Conrad today.

     Really?  Fifty shades of the most boring colour on the planet?  

     Not merely one shade, or two, or five or ten, but FIFTY?  What were the film suits thinking?

     "We need to really work on the BORING part of this film title.  Grey.  Lots of Grey!  A multiplicity of Grey!"

     It sounds dull, dull, dull.

"Hey!  I'm not dull!"

"Shaun The Sheep"
This is much more like it!  Bright and colourful.  Doubtless a mocking black comedy about what "Good Taste" Shaun has, as he ends up on the dining table as Sunday's dinner.

Shaun's understudy

     "Dead Snow Two: Red vs Dead"
     It's a bit of a niche market, but if you want Norwegian Nazi Zombie cinematic entertainment, "Dead Snow" and "Dead Snow 2" are your go-to films.  Conrad hasn't seen "Dead Snow 2" but is giggling like a schoolgirl at the prospect.
     What's wrong with this picture?

It's so obvious!

NO!  Not the people wearing modern clothes.  Go to the back of the class and stay there.  That there tank is SO obviously a Tiger, except that Norway was a Panzer backwater with mostly the Panzer Mk III being present.
     Although - although you could make a pun about a "Snow Tiger" ...

Back to normality.  

Or as close as we get.

Again with the irony.  The cat is happily settled in the dog's bed.  Along comes dog, expressing a polite interest in the bed that is, technically, theirs.  Cat does not move.  Cat, in fact, purrs extremely loudly.  Conrad finds the purr translates as "Ha ha you sucker!"

* Mis-spelled for comic effect.
** To wit:  "Waggling your arse and sticking your tongue out is music?  Who knew!"
*** No, it's not "Stan's Coconut Husk Recycling And Refurbishers".
^ Really.  The EU's official anthem.
^^ "Aliens" script steal.
^^^  Gloy.  A glue made from boiled horse.