Even Crosser About Words

Ah Yes, Conrad And Words

You know me, ever one to enjoy mucking about with words.  What, otherwise, am I writing and you reading?  

     "BOOJUM!" I hear you reply.

     Well, yes, although  you are being rather too literal.  An array of cleverly-constructed words, is what I meant.  Yes, they are cleverly constructed!

     Allow me to explicate.  One of my minor enjoyments is the crossword present in the MEN, and the other word puzzles.  Allow me to illustrate -

     I have managed to create 21 words out of the original, which was "Chameleon" if you care to know, and none of them are plurals.  I might be chancing it with "Mecha" although it's a viable word in my universe.  Art?

Works for me!

     The rules state "no plurals" and then proceed to list yesterday's answers - which included "slam" and "slams"; they also state "no foreign words" and then include "mesa", so I think I can be allowed "Chanel".

     What you can't see is my utterly dismal performance at Sudoku, where I took half an hour to get a single number.  Whilst I can throw words around with gay abandon, numbers are a much more challenging matter.

"Elementary"

Yes!  This is further to my observation about this programme, that they had a habit of introducing a well-known character actor, briefly.  They would be the villain, because you don't employ someone like that for thirty seconds, do you?  It had started to worry me, until they had Paul Sorvino in as a former big cheese in the Mafia.

     He wasn't the villain!  And he wasn't in the episode for that long, either.  Not only that, in the one about a stolen dinosaur fossil, the villain is someone I'd never seen before.

     Clearly, alongside the flowery speeches, someone had been paying attention.

     Art?

Great name for a band - "The Fraudulent Dimetrodons"

If Only, If Only

One podcast that Conrad enjoys reading is The Skeptoid.  As you may guess from the title, it looks at woo-woo and despatches it with a blow to the head, delivered deadpan.  Brian Dunning is the bloke responsible; I don't suppose he'll ever run out of nonsense to debunk, given that Einstein quote.

     Anyway, he did float an interesting concept, for which I attach a screenshot.

Wow!

     Since Conrad is basically a walking sweet-tooth who considers Ice cream to be one of the major food groups, this is a suggestion he could really go for.

Definition Of Despondent Dog

Conrad is dog-sitting once again, much to the evident disgust of Edna, for my lap - which she regards as hers by default - is instead occupied by my laptop as I try to watch "Elementary" and type out the blog.

     Here she is, getting ready to sulk.  When Wonder Wifey does her laptopping, our furry scamp weasels her way onto the settee, then gets under and behind the laptop and then inserts herself in front of it.  Since I'm not lying down she can't use this tactic, to her already-stated annoyance.

Chthon
A long time ago Conrad came across a sci-fi novel entitled "Chthon" and wondered how to pronounce it.  Art?

There you go

     The word itself is Greek, and means "Earth" in the sense of "Deep underground", or, if you will, the Underworld.  No!  Not the vampire versus werewolf films, the Underworld as in Hades.  Art?  Earn your coal allowance.

A fixer-upper

That Coincidence Hydra Again -
Once again the wicked beast comes to nestle it's fangs in my posterior.  You will recall, I hope, as you are regular readers, that Conrad was banging on about Jason Isaacs being featured - you are regular readers, right? - in The Metro's "60 Seconds" feature.  Art?

     There you go.  I didn't even know he had a Twitter account, and here he shows up because Mark Kermode - can you PROVE you're a regular reader? - posted up his witty response to George Takei, whom you might know better as Mr Sulu from that obscure cult series Star Trek Wars*.

*  Something along those lines, anyway.