Can I Have A Word? A CROSS Word?

Yes, I Am Truly Raging!
More like an upset ewe than a frothing bull, to be frank.  I am putting aside my English reserve and - well, I'm really jolly peeved, you know.  Miffed isn't in it.  Bordering on nearly-agitated.
     "Work does not agree with Conrad," I can hear you musing.  "He's ranting again, and this is when he's sober.*"
     If you will allow me to explain?  Innocent until proven guilty, that's one of the principles of English law you know, no matter how guilty I look, nor how shifty my body language.

Picture of innocence.
Maybe slightly worn innocence.

     Where was I?
     Oh yes.  First Bus lived down to their reputation this morning as Conrad caught the 24 into work.  It arrived several minutes early, although so did I, so they didn't outsmart me that way.  Nor was I in work yesterday when the trams died on their rails until four o'clock, doubtless leading to many normally tram-using commuters choosing First instead.
     The fools!  The mad impetuous fools!  
     No doubt First lived down to their reputation yesterday, too - changing all double-deckers to single deckers, cancelling all single deckers and blowing up random bus stops to add a little suspense to people's journey home.
     My state of saturnity is because there was no Metro on the bus this morning, so no intellectual battle of wits.  Mockingly, after yesterday's woefully unsettled weather, today we have a sky of cerulean blue (whatever that is).  Still, silver lining and all that: I now have more time to 1)  entertain you and 2) Slander Bill ("Kill Bill" is, I think, a trifle excessive).
     Now, let the motley begin!

Okay, a bit of  rascal

Commentary On Comments
As I happily dumped the Mumbai Escort Services (nothing to do with Ford cars) Comment into my Spam folder, I felt two things - 
     1)  Pride!  BOOJUM! is important enough to get spam in the first place, which is definitely an illustration of Conrad's sunny inner self.

Ecstatically beaming happy chappy

     2)  Surprise! as there was already a Comment in there that had been automatically Tagged and Bagged.  Here it is: "after a long time, i am read a interesting article and that from here.  Thank you so much for the share and keep on sharing on http://comsatangel2002.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/how-triple-barrelled-surname-saved-world.html
     Blogger appears to have decided it's spam because of the author of same - "Cheap Essay Writing Service", which means this is either the offspring of incredibly cruel parents, or - spam.  Still, it's a compliment, so I think it shall stay.
     Also, I am guessing that English is not our Commenter's native language.  Well, if he sticks around and reads BOOJUM! regularly, he will gain an invaluable insight into English vocabulary, grammar, spelling and sarcasm**.

     Good Lord!  Well over 400 words on what should have been no more than a few sentences.  Time to crack on, Conrad, to crack on!

ALRIGHT!  A douchebag in human form!
Sheesh.  Happy now?

"Houdini And Doyle"
I do like this series.  Escapist nonsense, yet very well done, with appealing male leads and a pretty (if rather thin) female lead.  They fudge issues like dates, matrimonial state and - Conrad is pretty sure of this - the first female police constable, but in an entertaining way.
     I am adding a few more comments after watching "Spring Heeled Jack", because Conrad, being wise in the ways of folklore, superstition, pseudoscience and sheer babbling nonsense, already knew about old Jack, but I am willing to gamble a bag of sherbet lemons that you the public didn't.  Nope, I'm not going into detail - 400 words already, remember? - go and Google if you wish to know more.

Spring onions.  Close enough

     The collection of aged police files that Doyle pores over were very well done; it must have taken an age to create them, so well done to that props person, they hold off-centre stage well.  Also, because Conrad is a pettifogging pedantic pecksniff about details, he noticed that one of the pencil sketches was of the demon from "Night of the Demon". 

Check it out!

 Blink and you'll miss it, but a nice touch.  Conrad also noticed that they got in the phrase "West Pauper Lunatic - " " - Asylum", which, as any fule kno, is the title of a CD by Kasabian.  And Stephen Mangan handled a replica Noughties motor-car very handily, managing forward and reverse without fuss at all.
     Also, checking on filming locations, some interior shots were of Manchester Town Hall, that splendid Gothic pile.

Atomic pile.  Almost the same

     Blimey, nearly at limit!  Quick Art, throw in some pictures - 

Screenshots Are Back!
Yesterday, perhaps because the PC was sulking at not being given a rest overnight, my Screenshot function wouldn't work, so I tried a quick test tonight and here we are:

Ta-da!

     Grim Current Affairs, so I'm not going to enlarge it.  It then took ages to scroll down the lists on Facebook to find the following screenshot:

"How does a bomb suit protect you from a bomb?"

     The cynical answer from a member of "Felix" was - "It allows you to be buried in one piece."
     "Felix" is the nickname for British Explosive Ordnance Disposal, after the cat, and perhaps the formation - Royal Logistics Corps Ammunition Technician (RL CAT).  These chaps walk the walk in no uncertain terms - over 230 awards issued, plus the even more highly-prized Mentioned In Despatches - 200 of those.
     Which might also be grim, but is also somewhat uplifting as well.  

And now it's time to wave bye bye to Conrad, Oscar, Art and Mister Hand as they head for the Cloudbase shuttle and a little talk with Colonel White about Not Taking The Mickey ...

RUN!  A MONSTER WEARING A HUMAN SKIN***!

*  26 days so, thank you for asking
** Not sure how well this translates.
*** Many a true word spoken in jest ...