Back With A Vengeance

You See, Tom?  You See How Much Effort I Put In?
Careful with the spacing there, or we might pick up even more attention from the FSB* than we already get.  
     Here is the Vengeance in question:

Revenge.  Best served in a vertical dive from 3,000 yards height

     As you can see, it is an aircraft, and an American dive-bomber at that.  Oddly enough the South Canadians never used it for that purpose, although the RAF and the Australian Air Force did.

It Be - Whitby
Yes, Conrad intends to string out the holiday for as long as he possibly can, don't you worry about that.  Here we have some of the sights of Whitby, which is a town not far from Robin Hood's Bay.  Whitby was the root cause of all those British phobias about Eastern Europeans coming over here and stealing all our jobs swans blood, as it was where that toothy gentleman Dracula made landfall.  Hence lots of Goth shops which I'm not going to show pictures of as they're boring.  Instead you can have these:

The Magpie Cafe

     Where they serve huge portions of fish and chips, including gluten free, to the cackling delight of Wonder Wifey.  To her further (initial) delight the tartare sauce provided is also gluten free, until she tried it and pulled a face.
     Here is a view of the harbour.

This is as far as I could be bothered to walk

     It's a harbour.  Not a lot more one can say about it, really.  Turning round reveals this vista:

The non-ruined bit of Whitby Abbey

     "Why don't we see the whole thing?" I hear you cry.  Because there were 100 steps to walk up to reach the Abbey and your humble scribe couldn't be bothered**.
     Finally we have this strange structure:

You cannot deny it's oddness

     A sign on the back of this 18th Century structure notified us that it was "The Art -" and that was all as the sign itself was broken.  I shall leave it to your fevered imaginations as to what it is really called.  If you come up with an idea - keep it to yourself.  I don't like competition.

Star Wars. Yes, Again!
Not that Conrad is attempting to pull in readers by including topical subjects in today's media - don't forget we avoid Current Affairs here at BOOJUM! - it's just that this criticism popped up whilst watching "A New Hope".  Just to note that Obi Wan points to the Jawa's destroyed Sandcrawler after it gets shot up and mentions "Only Imperial Stormtroopers could be so precise".

Stormtrooper Range Instructor

     Only because their target was as big as a city block, stationary and nobody was shooting back at them!  Later on the Stormtroopers prove to be anything but precise.  Your gifted author maintains that if our 5 heroes were stuck in a lift with a dozen Stormtroopers, they'd still win.

Why So Few Doctor Who Videos Were Released: Part 3
We've covered the destruction of the film stock, and problems in getting whole-cast approval, and now - Auntie Beeb and her Patronising Attitude.
     Despite it's popularity and appeal, Auntie has long looked down her elongated proboscis on science fiction, with an air of both suspicion and contempt.  Those in power at the top probably grew up reading lurid Gernsback sci-fi pulps back in the Thirties and were still stuck in that worldview in the Sixties, and into the Seventies and even the Eighties, the doddering swine.

The Horror of Gernsback!
"Man being killed by murderous television."

     So, they didn't allocate Doctor Who videos with any great urgency.
     Until, of course, this species of humanoid whelk dies out and is replaced by Real Humans, and Russell Davies and -  DOCTOR WHO***!

A rather more decent shellfish altogether.

The Pedant's Delight
As you surely know by now, Conrad is a bitterly critical analyst of other people's spelling and grammar, and is not slow to pounce on mistakes.  This is why the blog takes an hour to create - ten minutes typing, fifty minutes looking for mistakes^.
     Which is why Conrad was DELIGHTED to discover this:

Spot the mistake!

     Doubtless other pedants will be e-mailing or writing to The Metro, as that is the location of this strip.  "Desert" means an arid wasteland.  "Dessert" is a delicious pudding.  Nor am I sure why the small human has a claw where her right ear should be.  Mutant?



* Russian Secret Servicece.  Not remotely like the KGB.  Different initials, see?
** I know, I know, I'd never hack it as a travel journalist, would I?
*** After ten years I still have to pinch myself on occasion.
^ Only joking!  Fifteen minutes typing, forty minutes checking, five minutes to brew a pot of tea.