The World Is Not Teanough

Are You Wincing Or Impressed?
Apparently I started doing this punnery with film titles back in late August, and didn't think I could keep it going this long, let alone that James Bond would be such a fruitful source of tannin-trickery.  Who knew!  I feel that a change is due, as even though I could keep doing this for probably another six months, my readers might think it getting a little stale.

Although Conrad used to like stale bread - I would dip it in my Marmite drink

     This film, apparently, is one of the Also-Rans, in being that it's definitely not in the front rank of JB fillums, but never descends to the Roger Morecambe-and-Wise level.  It involves attempting to set off a nuclear warhead in Turkey, which does arouse my professional strictly amateur and unqualified in any way whatsoever interest.

It will be quite enough for me, thanks very much

     Which has nothing to do with ADIABATIC-INDUCED WATER PRECIPITATION! and neither does what follows*.
     Conrad acknowledges that his mind is a bit of a mystery even to himself, and thus it was earlier this afternoon when I looked up the current state of play in the South Canadian Navy, specifically it's submarine arm thereof.  Or should that be a fin thereof?  Whichever, that's where my mind took me, and thus I learned exactly what "SSBN" means.  Art?  Illuminate the readers.

A Big Bang Boat

     The South Canadian slang for these things is "boomers", presumably because of what they can do; which is, launch nuclear missiles from hiding beneath the waves.
     Here an aside.  During the Cold Unpleasantness, things never got hot because of the above.  Their job was to stooge around the ocean depths, very slowly and silently, remaining undetected.  If they deployed their VLF underwater antenna and kept hearing the "Stop" signal, they wouldn't do anything; if the "Stop" signal stopped, then they would do something, and given their ability to fire 54 missiles carrying a 500 kiloton warhead in the South Canadian case, nobody wanted to risk dropping that other shoe.
     Anyway, that title "SSBN" always puzzled me.  It transpires to mean "Ship, Submersible, Ballistic, Nuclear".  There is a second variety dubbed the "SSGN", which stands for "Ship, Submersible, Guided, Nuclear".  These puppies carry nearly 150 nuclear-tipped cruise missiles, and it wouldn't surprise your humble scribe to know that there are a couple of these things lurking in international waters off Norkland.  Art?

Sneaky and peaky

     Most of their ballistic missile launch tubes are packed with missiles, but two are reserved for parties of SEALS, allowing them to sneak ashore from the sub without it having to surface at all.
     My, what an interesting world we live in***!

I didn't think the Intro was going to be so long.  Quick, chuck the motley into the lion enclosure**!

Pet Rep:  Day 8
Here is the other inhabitant of The Mansion at present, assuming one of her preferred positions.  Art?

     This is a consolation position for Edna, as she was sulking because I wouldn't play ball with her.  I had done already this afternoon, so she was clearly being presumptuous.
     As ever, these Pet Rep updates are for her doting mother, who is abroad at present, in fact at sea on the Atlantic, possibly sailing over a hidden SSBN as I type.

Conrad:  Too Cheap By Far
This is annoying.  I purchased a hardback copy of "Hush", a trade paperback collection of five Batman comics, for the princely sum of £1.50.  Art?

Edna's ball visible upper left!

     However, as you may be able to see, this is only Part 1.  The whole thing is available at Waterstones in the Dark Tower, except it will set me back £19:95, and I rather jib at having to buy both lots in one volume when I've already got half of it.  O well.  A nice problem to have, I suppose.  The Jim Lee artwork is very good, I have to say.

Finally -
I don't know.   Some people have entirely toooo much time on their hands, not to mention ridiculously large endowment funds.  I know I shouldn't be one to talk, but nobody's paying me to put down these words of wonder.  Art?

     I have no idea what this is supposed to be for.  After all, who wants or needs a robot dog? And - why do you need versions with tails of differing lengths?

*  Confused?  Get used to it.  This is training for when I take over.
**  Don't worry, motley's can run pretty fast.  Probably faster than lions.
***  For how much longer is an equally interesting question.