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That Will Take A Little Explanation
Hopefully not long, because neither of us are stupid.  Odd, eccentric, even perverse, yet not stupid.  Okay, back to the tea-based puns.  What do you drink tea from?  Art!

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     Why, you sip the amber nectar from one of these.
     Here an aside.  Conrad drinks his tea black, the way the Chinese intended it to be, and thanks to diabetes - THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH DIABETES - he doesn't add honey to it, either, as he used to occasionally.  Thus, my tea is indeed amber in colour, rather than the murky beige that you humans insist on.
     Okay, we've established what you drink tea from.  Gotta keep the pun linkage hale.
     Now, cast your mind back a few years to an unusual animated film that featured a pensioner-as-hero - "Up".  Art?

Got it in one

     Conrad is quite comfortable with the idea of a grumpy old white-haired man as hero, for reasons that will shortly become obvious.
     There you go - a lecture on how you ought to drink tea, and a clever pun.

"We Fear Change"
If you take nothing from the film versions of the reality show "Wayne's World"m then take the above quote, for it is a truism about humans, and Conrad*.  Your humble scribe is most definitely a creature of habit, as evinced by his haircut.  Art?
     Bah!  Phone won't upload shot after it died from battery going to zero overnight.  Still, we can improvise here.  Art?  <sound of cattle prod powering-up>

Me in a good mood.

       Close enough.  And yes, I am every bit as grumpy as that face implies.  Also as reluctant to change a routine, as today I went back to Peppi's, my hairdresser for the past 20 years.  He's changed location three times, yet I always return - creature of habit, remember?  He also confirms that your modest artisan suits the moustache, which rather makes me resemble Conrad the Cashiered Colonel.
     Grumpy white-haired men - the unsung heroes of our world today**.

Tea, balloons and hair - where else can you find such an eclectic mix?  Okay, moving on -

Good Luck With That
As you should already be aware, BOOJUM! rarely bothers with Politics or Religion and rarely bothers with Current Affairs, although given recent events I am holding off on anything about firearms for the moment.
     However, we can be prodded into commenting, and the recent Nobel Awards provided plenty of prod.  Who won the Nobel Peace Prize for 2017?  Why, none other than the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.  One can only admire the intent and dedication of these people, and their goal.
     However, it has been said of the Big Bang Bombs, "You cannot put the genie back in the bottle", which is a bit ironic, as the Genie was a stand-off nuclear-tipped air to air rocket.  To put nuclear weapons beyond reach would require - actually let me study that seriously and get back to you.

A Genie leaving the bottle, so to speak

     It's not impossible - the Geneva Convention is chock-full of horrid things that are not supposed to be used in warfare - just rather unlikely.

Hang on, let me just check if Ben Folds is still alive - Phew!  yes he is, he wasn't actually being electrocuted, he was just dancing whilst plugging-in the television.

Jim'll Paint It
If you are not familiar with this site, I shall have to lay out a bit of background.  The late Jimmy Saville, before being outed as a container of excrement in human form, used to host a television programme entitled "Jim'll Fix It", where he fixed various mailed-in requests from viewers.  
     The altogether more wholesomw Jim of the Paint It variety will, analagously, paint a picture based on what people send in to him.  The latest?  Art!

"Dad's Army Of Darkness"

     Conrad had a fit of giggles on viewing this.  Apart from hypocritically noting that some people have entirely too much time on their hands, this is a picture-perfect rendering of some of the "Dad's Army" stars, blended with the AOD poster art.

http://jimllpaintit.tumblr.com/

     That's the link to his site.  If he is in fact a he, as all we have to go on is his word, and Jim seems to have a rather tenuous connection with reality.

     "What is, or was, 'Dad's Army', Conrad?" I hear you ask.  "For many of us hail from those darkened heathen hinterlands that know not of British culture from, yeah, years ago."
     Well, I could tell you - and I will.
     Tomorrow.

     So, tune in tomorrow on this BOOJUM!-channel for elucidation!


*  Yes there's only one of me, but there's so much it counts for two
**  See post above for proof