A Nightingale Lapsang Souchong In Berkley Square

Yes, Still With The Tea Puns
Don't worry, I'll either run out of tea or puns, and then the world will be safe again.  Well, safer.  Given Hom. Saps ability to wage war over a biscuit or capitalisation, 'safe' is pretty relative.
     Okay, this Intro is going to go round the houses somewhat - business as usual - so you might want to go put on the kettle before getting settled.
     Wayne, you are vindicated.  If you were paying attention recently then you recall Wayne being one of the staff at The Denton Centre, where your humble scribe was briefly employed.  Upon leaving Conrad was given a pair of extremely weighty books.  Art?

Rescued by Wayne

     The sinful possibility of these going into a skip was averted once Conrad's acquisitive little eyes fell upon them, and I've already used both.  In proof of which -
     "Piled Pelion upon Ossa" - ah me yes, the perils of reading autobiographies about the First Unpleasantness, when written by upper-class English officers.  Classical education, you see - a hundred years ago if you went to a public school (which were actually private, and expensive) then rather than bother with snivelling newcomers to language like French or German, you studied Latin and Greek.
     Here an aside.  Conrad cordially detests the snobs who post in a language and then don't bother to provide a translation; Latin I can figure out for myself, but if the Dog Buns pikers did it with Greek, I'd have to go to Anna for a translation.  Just so you know what I think.     

Anna with the red hair

     Right, back on track.  One autobiography, and no I can't remember which one, made a statement about Pelion and Ossa, which left me completely in the dark.  Who is Pelion?  Why is he piling upon the unfortunate Ossa?  Are they playing rugby?  Sardines?  Some seedy bedroom activity?
     None of the above.  The Collins Concise Dictionary - and I have to add that, if this is what counts as "Concise" then I would hate to have to heft around the "Unabridged" - relates that, in Greek mythology, the twin giants Otus and Ephialtes attempted to reach heaven by stacking the mountain Pelion (not a prop forward, then) upon Olympus, and then Ossa on top of Pelion.
     So that phrase is explained - either attempting to overachieve, or storm the gates of heaven.

Mount Pelion

     I told you it would take a while to resolve this one, didn't I?
     Right, now that we've covered classical literature, dictionaries, the lovely Anna, autobiographies, the First Unpleasantness and tea, I think it's time to move on.  Let the motley rumble forward!

The Longest Day
Ah me, the perils of mentioning a film on BOOJUM! because then the urge to watch it springs to the forefront of Conrad's mind, as is true with TLD.  I am up to the 1 hour 58 minute mark, when Lord Lovat's men encounter the mayor of Colville riding a bicycle, toasting their arrival in France with a bottle of champagne.  Dear lord, the amount of military kit present is incredible!  and not made a meal of, either.  That's a Bren Gun Carrier, those are Sherman M4A3E8s in the background, that was a Churchill Bobbin on the beach, there's another Churchill barging past, loads of DUKWs and ships ships ships.
     If you were to replicate this for real today, with hardware not CGI, it would cost billions!

Every face a star

    Not to mention what the cast would be asking for, which would probably double the budget.

Damn You, Twitter, Damn You!
As you ought to know by now - this post's title is a giveaway - Conrad likes mucking about with words and language.  In further vindication of Wayne, I recently looked up the definition and derivation of "Widdershins", which has nothing to do with this post.
     There I was, Thursday evening, getting ready to attend Pub Quiz, when what did I see?  A Twitter feed entitled "Lesser Tribute Bands", and idiot that I am, I clicked on the feed.  I then spent ten minutes coming up with silly band titles in the spirit of the Tweet.
     Hence:

Blue Winkle Cult

Grey Sabbath

The Chemical Cousins

The Static Stones

Graham Parker and the Fact

The Beagles

Echo and the Funnymen

The Venus Volta

The Comsat Angles

No

     As you already know, Conrad is a big fan of the Comsats, and has to report that Mick Glaisher, their drummer, claimed a record company did in fact put out some of their stuff under that mis-spelling.

The Comsats in Iceland.

Oh, yes, "Widdershins".  It's a Scottish variant spelling of "Withershins", meaning to go in a direction opposite to that of the sun.  From the Middle German "Wider" meaning "Against" and "Sinnes" meaning "course".
     There you go - BOOJUM! - educating even as we offend.

Pip pip!