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 |
Of course, none of this has any connection with what follows. That's BOOJUM! for you - consistently inconsistent.
Let Me Test You
Well, you would be wrong.
Here you go:
Not sure what the foob upper right is doing |
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! |
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. Remember this picture |
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
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?
Mechanoids: handy barbecue accessories (Caution: may also try to take over the world) |
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
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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