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Saturday, 5 March 2016

Tee He

Congratulations!
Yes, you have just realised that your humble scribe has indeed found a new theme, one that he can exploit mercilessly and squeeze every ounce* of humour from.
     Let me explain with a picture:
Aptly named
     As you can see, Conrad's preferred mode of attire tends to the - er - relaxed.  Tee shirt and jeans.  He rather derisively dismisses formal wear as "monkey suits**".  In "Person Of Interest" the rambunctious John Reese is identified by the FBI as "The Man In The Suit", whereas if Conrad was playing the part it would be "The Scruffy Rascal In Tee And Jeans".  Which is accurate yet probably a bit much of a mouthful for inclusion in reports.
     Of course, none of this has any connection with what follows.  That's BOOJUM! for you - consistently inconsistent.

Let Me Test You
If I were to type "Top Quality Models" would you then expect a series of photographs of horribly thin young women to follow?  Wearing clothes, of course, since we are still SFW, and it's rather cold for the time of year.
     Well, you would be wrong.
     Here you go:
Not sure what the foob upper right is doing
     Conrad did actually have an extensive collection of 1/72 models back in the day.  Nowadays he merely collects 1/300 replicas, which might have two bits to assemble on a busy day.  Trying to assemble the above would be a trial and a torment, and it could only ever be a display model, unless you can think of a wargame that requires a sports car like this***.

I Am Officially Worried
Not so much by the ever-present white vans, which have now become singular, meaning the Charm Offensive has been successful in decreasing the number of spies hanging around outside the Mansion.
     No, worried about one of the staples of BOOJUM! before the Charm Offensive, which I have had to marginalise.
     "Zombies?  Tanks?  Atom Bombs?" I hear you guessing.  You missed out the other rather noisy item - "Atom Bombing The Moon".
     Ha!  It's not exactly a staple across the rest of the internet, so there aren't a whole lot of relevant pictures or photographs, so I was surprised at finding this webpage:
Er - who's been reading too much BOOJUM!
     That is, if you can have such a thing as too much BOOJUM!

Thank You Oscar
Your humble scribe's memory and subconscious are both closed books to him.  He has less understanding of what they throw up than of what's at the bottom of the Challenger Deep.   For instance - he dreamed about a communications satellite last night, that weighed either 273 pounds or 237 pounds*.  From the look of it, we are talking "Telstar", a prototype comsat launched in 1962.
Telstar.jpg
Telstar.  Remember this picture
     Quite why I'd dream about this is baffling.  It turned out to only weigh 170 pounds, so Yah Booh! to my dream for being predictive.  On the other hand, it had an orbital period of 2 hours 37 minutes, so if that figure (which I didn't write down) had been 237 then - well, that's the first coincidence for today.
     Telstar didn't operate for long, because of another of the blog's staples, nuclear explosions.  If only we could cram zombies in there somehow ...
     Yes indeedy Ally Sheedy.  The South Canadians, with all the glee of a schoolboy getting his hands on a box of anti-tank missiles fireworks, carried out "Starfish Prime", a series of nuclear explosions in space.  This was back in 1962, when you could get away with things like that, nowadays Health & Safety rather frown on such behaviour.  These and other explosions from the Sinisters^, boosted radiation in the Van Allen belts significantly and goosed Telstar for good in early 1963.

And For Today's Second Coincidence
Ah me, I surrendered to a bit of a click-baity Youtube sidebar entitled "5 Experiments that could have destroyed the world", except that nobody at the time - who wasn't wearing a tinfoil hat - ever expected them to blow up the planet.
     Number 2 was strangely familiar -

     Thankfully it didn't come in at the 2 minute 37 second point or I'd be really worried.

The Advantages Of A Mind Like A Skip
Or, if you are one of our South Canadian readers, a "Dumpster".  Recall that photograph of Telstar above, because I definitely reminded Conrad of - what was it?
     Aha!  A Doctor Who monster, of the mechanical kind.  A Mechanoid.  No, that's not very original, but it was the mid-Sixties and they were writing for children.  Art?
Image result for mechanoid doctor who
Mechanoids:  handy barbecue accessories
(Caution: may also try to take over the world)
     I think there's a definite design influence there, and if you don't agree - then may I remind you whose blog this is?
     Thank you so much.

Finally - 
I cannot mention "comsat" in a post and not mention one of the best rock bands this country ever produced, The Comsat Angels.  Herein a link to "Independence Day":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXw7a3FdBL4


Image result for the comsat angels
This is either Sheffield or Iceland


* None of that Metric nonsense here at BOOJUM!
** It is unclear why monkeys.  Why not weasels?
*** Mad Max?
^ Okay, okay, the Soviets. There.  Happy?

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