As Good To Go, As Good Can Get

Yeah, Baby, Yeah!
Currently Conrad is watching "From The Earth To The Moon", a mini-series that happens to be 17 years old, made back in 1998.  I missed it back then, but am catching up on it now.  And that title is a phrase from the series
     Is this relevant?
     Well, yes, because - Coincidence.  Bloody Coincidence has managed to track yourself down over this weekend despite me sitting, hidden, on the settee all this afternoon.  We'll get to that later.

Another Paean* To Our Animal Friends
I did skrike earlier today about Our Animal Friends - Dogfish, Donkey Jacket and Cat-of-Nine-Tails, so let me show you a genuine Animal Friend:

Edna, resplendent upon the mat

     This is Edna Wunderhund, enjoying herself far too much on our new rug.  She does tend to enjoy herself a little too much on the floor -

     Although here, she is waiting to be given a plate to either devour or lick clean.


Meanwhile, At Strategic Rocket Base Number Sixteen, Novi Palatinsk
You, gentle reader, as one un-initiated unto the arts and crafts, the life, the legerdemain and the rigour and happenstance of life at a strategic missile base, may not be aware of the background grind of daily life in the barren Siberian wilderness surrounding Novi Palatinsk.
     Well, first off, you are talking about the arse end of Nowhere.  This place makes the Middle Of Nowhere look like Red Square on Holy Motherland Procession Day with extra added tourists.  
     This might be fine if you were out at RB16 for only a couple of months at a time, except given the sheer incompetency of the Strategic Rocket Force's admin - these are the lowest performing molluscs in the entire conscriptancy of Russia - you are going to be there for 37 months.  When your complete term of service was 36 months -
     Anyway!  To keep people on their toes, the Colonel likes to have Emergency Drills.

This one is, "Who farted?

     Take note, gentle reader.  Technology out of Gerry Anderson, human resources out of Carry On.

"The Bad Education"
Conrad has seen this film poster on the side of recent buses.  Since the buses in question were First, his initial response was Flaming Incoherent Rage, which is amusing as a response if rather less so for purposes of film review.

Voila!

     First impression - Conrad has been noticing this as of last year - it's a very yellow/sepia toned advert.  Advert colour has a lot to do with how punters view the film, with darker colours meaning a darker take on the film.
     I could stretch a point here, pointing out the anarchic tone, especially given the tagline: "Best school trip ever!"
     So.  A variant on "If" filtered through "The Inbetweeners"

Ah, Coincidence.  Back So Soon?
Well, there your humble scribe was, watching what must be surely listed in the television guides as "Popcorn for the Mind", that is "NCIS", and who do we see upon the screen?
     Why none other than Mark Harmon:

Harmon-ious

     And who is alongside him?  None other than Frederick Lehne:

"Sorry, you lost me."

     And not ten minutes later, whilst Conrad is watching "From The Earth To The Moon", who crop up together in the 3rd episode?
     Yes!  Mark Harmon and Frederic Lehne.
     There's a lesson in there somewhere.

Another Coincidence, THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
What novel by Ray Bradbury was I banging on about last week?  Oh, and the Shakespeare quote?
     "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes."
     Take note of that sentence's second part.
     What did I see on the television guide this afternoon?

It's a bit blurred, but it reads "Something wicked this way comes"

     I don't think that THERE'S NO OTHER EXPLANATION THAN ALIENS!

You What?
The Foobs have really managed to descend beyond Stupidity and are now in the sub-basement of Clinical Baffoonity.  Why do I condemn them so?  Because of this:

     "Genuine Ratcliff Pallfinger" parts are available for yours truly to expedite in a cost-effective and timely manner!
     Except I had no idea what they were talking about.  "Ratcliff" sounds like a Lemming Obstacle Course, and "Pallfinger" is probably NSFW in Bremen.
    Once again, what are these people thinking?  What? What! WHAT!?



* "Paean" = "Hymn"