A Bridge Tea Far

The Best I Could Come Up With At Short Notice
All the while during my walk this afternoon with Edna I was thinking what tea-based pun would do for the second of today's posts that you are - I hope - awaiting with quivering anticipation.  I did think of "Apotcalypse Now" but that might get confused with illegal drugs, given the milieu of the film.  I considered "Brew Sunshine", but the original film is rather obscure and, again, illegal drugs.

Woooooh freaky stuff

     Whilst the rain pitter-patted down all around me (you see, Edna?  You see what I put up with for your sake?) I dwelt briefly on "A Bridge Too Far" and considered it fair game.
     Here an aside.  ABTF is about the only film I've seen that accurately depicts an artillery barrage, specifically a British creeping barrage. Art?

The best I could do at short notice

     The sight of a wall of explosions from one end of the horizon to the other, marching forward unstoppably, is the last thing a lot of the King's enemies ever saw.  
     I remember Colonel Frost commenting on the film itself, and he thought it pretty accurate, apart from not having any 6 pounder anti-tank guns at the Arnhem Bridge.  Art?  Earn your pay!

Yes, it weighs more than 6 pounds.  Duh.

     The Teutons didn't like this weapon, as it was small enough for the crew to manhandle around easily, and it had a low profile that rendered it hard to spot.  It could knock out anything bar a Tiger, and even that was vulnerable when APDS rounds became available.  It was good enough that the South Canadians, who have a very snobby policy of not using anyone else's weapons, took it into service.
     The ones that were used at the bridge did have a weakness, as they were firing over tarmac or flagstones, and the gun trail couldn't be dug in effectively.  This meant that, when fired, the recoil would propel them backwards several feet.

6 pounder Armour Piercing Discardable Sabot round being loaded.  Someone in an AFV is about to have a bad hair day ...

     There you go.  We did wander a little off the original title, but what the heck, this is BOOJUM! and where would we be without a little artful misdirection?

Benny And The Jets, Sally And The Rats
As you ought to know by now, Darling Daughter Sally (Edna is the dog) is quite the talented artist, which she gets from Wonder Wifey, and also strikingly attractive, which she gets from your humble scribe*.  Art?

     Proof of her genetic inheritance.  Here she is at the Ape and Apple, during Comedy Balloon.
     Whilst sipping her pint in an appreciative yet ladylike manner, Conrad noticed a necklace she had designed and made all herself.  Art?

     As you should already know, Conrad ploughs a lonely furrow trying to improve the public image of the weasel.  Clearly Darling Daughter has her own rodent promoting agenda here, bigging-up the humble and misunderstood rat.  Well done Sal!

I don't know if you detected a pause there, as I went down to the kitchen to get those chicken goujons out of the oven.  In a complete coincidence, Edna is also present in the Sekrit Layr.

     Oh.  The goujons are now gone, and so is Edna.

About That Eclipse -
I mention this because that Dog Buns! Facebook default keeps coming up and mentioning astronomy.  Enough already!
     People made a meal out of this astronomical event, which, as far as your humble scribe is concerned, had all the impact of a bit of nightfall.
     Since we do not live in a reality corresponding to that of Isaac Asimov's short story "Nightfall", which is about a planet orbiting multiple suns where night only falls once every several thousand years (I think, it's a while since I read it), your eclips is a bit boring, really.
     Sorry, but there it is.

Nightfall, Asimov style

Pervitin
I had not heard of this drug before reading Norman Ohler's book "Blitzed", which deals with drug use in Nazi Germany.  "Pervitin" was the trade name for metamphetamine, which we know better today as "Crystal Meth", and initially these pills were used in all branches of the Teuton's armed forces by the tens of millions.  It was a short-term boost in terms of banishing fatigue, hunger and docility, but it had extremely serious longer term effects - heart attacks, uncontrollable violence, bleeding in the brain, hallucinations and destruction of muscle tissue.
     Erk!

The guilty party
(Do you see - O you do)

     Well, talking of drugs is where we came in ...




*  No false modesty here.