I am posting this morning.
Unlike the frankly-underhand reposting of old scrivel last night, I am attempting to be novel, which is a bit of a stretch at 4:27 a.m. I can tell you.
Only joking! It's actually 5:27.
Well, let us see what today brings us -
The Metro
I feel out of practice in having a go at the Spilt-Tea-Soaker-Upper. That's what a policy of being nice does to you.
Anyway, earlier in the week they had a report on a British soldier who was awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery in action whilst in Afghanistan. This is the first such award since Johnson Beharrie earned his whilst on deployment in Iraq. They don't hand those things out in packets of Cornflakes, you know. That was the headline article, with the rest on Page 27.
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| Victoria, cross |
However, The Metro obviously - obviously! - chose to put above that article one on that hideous old croaker Madonna. Madonna, it appears, fell down some steps.
This is news?
It's not even like she broke her ghastly turkey-wattled neck, for Dog Bun's sake!
You may have guessed that Conrad is no fan of the poisonous doddery pensioner.
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| The Fallen Madonna (Go on, you knew that was coming!) |
Pub Quiz!
A better turn-out last night than the week before, seven teams totaling over thirty folk, which is not as many as at the height of Harry's reign, but respectable for a quiz re-establishing itself.
Although the techno-luddites from last week did not re-appear ...
The quiz, you see, requires a smartphone. Not merely that, it needs a smartphone with a Speedquizzing app loaded upon it.
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| Farewell paper and pen |
The idea is to cut down to near zero the possibility of cheating, as the answers to questions require participants to hit their phone's virtual buzzer as quickly as possible. No time to Google!
Our team, down to a valiant duo (Rosie being away off to London) WON!
This was thanks to Conrad's inspired guesswork on the last question, worth 30 points - "In what year did Luna 2 land on the Moon?"
"Luna 2" sounded like a Russian space project. Conrad knew the "Lunakhod" vehicles came later, that Sputnik went up in 1957 and so added a couple of years to guess 1959 - and hit the nail on the head.
Go Marsden Muppets!
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| Lunoakhod. Russia invents the most hi-tec bathtub evah. |
Why, It's Coincidence - Again!
Yesterday I was standing at the bus stop - no benches so sitting not really an option - under the sort of circumstances where human beings would be whistling idly, but where Conrad has non sequiteurs* pop up in his mind instead.
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| One secateur. Close enough |
"Dompierre!" popped up suddenly.
What on Earth? I mused. Where the heck did that come from? What is it? Who is it?
Well, I found out five minutes later on the bus, sitting down to read the "History of the 42nd Division". The second page I perused had a list of billet sites the various units of the division occupied, including the French village of -
- Dompierre!
Move Over, O2 And Your Dogs
Yesterday Conrad happened to glance out of the bus window and saw that other people are a bit fed up with O2 and their banging on about "Be more dog". An Italian logistics company has decided to elevate our feline friends to pole position:
| CAT ONE! YEAH! |
Well, there you have it. If circumstances permit I may post a few promotion FB threads at work, but my work is cut out today - I have an additional four lines of rhyme to add to Katie's goodbye pome, and a whole one from scratch for Emma.
BOOJUM!'s Conrad - busy boy!
* Translates as "random stuff" - translation courtesy Mister Hand
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