- instead of just Horrible.
As you surely know by now, your humble scribe loves nothing more than to mess around with words, such as these ones before your very eyes right now. He also takes a peculiar delight in finding strange photographs on the internet, occasionally taking them himself. Who can forget that inimitable post about hunting down escaped wild socks!
What your modest artisan has not been able to do is combine both photograph and wording, to create a gestalt*.
UNTIL NOW!
Here's one I made earlier. I may include these memes in the body of BOOJUM! or I may use them for the primping posts on Facebook and Twitter. Rest assured you will be seeing a lot more of Mister Laser Eyes**.
I'm Glad That's Sorted!
A small yet nagging identity question has at last been answered. No! Not who murdered the princes in the Tower***. You may not be aware of the Finnish television series "Talvisota", about the Winter War fought between Finland and the Sinisters over the winter of 1939/1940. Conrad, with his schoolboy fascination with things that go BANG! wondered about the light machine guns used by the Finns. First port of call, "Infantry Weapons of the Second World War".
Oh dear.
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| No photo! |
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| It is indeed the Lahti-Saloranta M1926 |
"Baltic Dental Tours"
You see? You see? How one topic seamlessly leads into another?
Actually it's pure coincidence. Art?
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| To the right, although you may also gaze admiringly at the left |
You have to admit "Baltic Dental Tours" are not three words you casually associate with each other. They are, in fact, such a bizarre association that your modest artisan couldn't resist getting a screenshot. Sadly the adverts rotated out before I could get a better size of picture.
Oh, and this is relevant, as Liam at work - no, not this Liam, that Liam - has recently had £6,000 worth of dental work done. He casually mentioned this at lunch, causing your humble scribe to nearly choke on a gherkin.
"HOW much!" I expostulated, only to be told that sum again. Liam went on to -
"You could buy a CAR with that much!" I interrupted. This was acknowledged and -
"Or a thousand books!" I continued, getting a bit misty-eyed at the thought.
"The 2nd Norfolks: From Les Paradis to Kohima" By Peter Hart
Yes, yes, I know what you're going to say, "NO NO Conrad, not more military history, dammit there is a limit to how much a man can take."
Relax. This is about the author, not the book. I've already got (and read, because the two are not the same) several works by Peter Hart. Who does he mention in the Introduction of the above? Why none other than Nigel Steel and Bryn Hammond, who both work at the Imperial War Museum, like Pete. Both are also members of the Great War Forum which I used to frequent before BOOJUM! ate up all my waking hours^. And yes, both are authors, and I have works by both.
Rather less conventionally, Peter was the singer in Scouse punks "Those Naughty Lumps". Art?
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| Punk. Obviously essential grounding for military historians. |
It is rare indeed for BOOJUM! to get a comment, very rare indeed^^. So, yesterday, when I saw that the count had increased from - ah yes do I embarrass myself and admit how few there are? (oh the moral turmoil) ah why not - from "8" to "9", I was horribly smug.
Silly me. I attach a screenshot:
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| There you go |
For your information I will not be availing myself of this escort service. India is quite a commute.
- although one of Liam's friends is paying £1,000 to go there and get his teeth done^^^
* Something better than the sum of it's parts. Like a cake.
** Me.
*** I have an alibi.
^ And a few sleeping ones, too.
^^ And it only takes a second or two, you dastards.
^^^ I told you! I told you! Everything seamlessly links into everything else!
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