Think Pink

No!  This Is Nothing To Do With The Floyd
And since I've just spent 10 minutes trying to track down that song of theirs from the "Embryo" single to no avail, simply because it had something to do with cars - hang on, could it have been to do with 'Zabriskie Point'?
     No.
     Oh well, let's have a travelling crane as compensation.  Art?

Yes, I know it's yellow, not pink

     Let me assure you, the first person to mention that squealing squalling musical ineptitude "Pink" as the source of this post will never be heard of again - and in fact can you hear the hissing of wind over control surfaces as the Hellfire homes in on target? ..ld 
     I refer, of course - how could you think anything else? - to the Panthermobile, which featured at the beginning and end of the splendid "Pink Panther Show".  Art?

Presto!

     It looks amazing, doesn't it?  Note that the driving position is external, so the driver needed to wear a helmet.  No rear view mirrors; instead there was a rear-mounted camera that fed a television screen up front.  Apparently it was a bit of a pig to drive, because, as the driver, you're sat ahead of the wheels so it's awkward to anticipate turning circles and the like.  And, despite diligently searching across teh interwebz, I cannot find out what speeds it could achieve - probably quite high, given that it had a whacking big 7-litre engine.

Class acts one and all

     Righto, time to strap the motley to the front of a tram and see if that keeps obstacles away!

Shark Bites WomanI noticed this story on the BBC website, and - because Sharks Are Our Friends! - felt compelled to investigate a bit further.  Art?

     Now, some of you out there might object to BOOJUM!'s casual display of female flesh, but this is the photo as supplied.  I've made it extra large so you can see the shark as it tackles our protagonist's hand.  This is a nurse shark, a normally unagressive species that steers clear of humans; since one of it's staples is octopi, it may have thought her hand was one.  She shook herself free within a few seconds and probably doesn't realise how lucky she was, because the nurse shark can hold on so tightly that it needs to be surgically removed.

Lindy And The Chieftain, Part The Second
I believe the two are pantsing around at Bovvie (Bovington Tank Museum if we're being formal) in that video I mentioned yesterday, about "A Poor Tank, A Useless Tank -" and because I am thoughtful I shall post the link -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRW3N7GmsBA

     I shall now prod Art awake with a stiletto.  Art?

This is the Useless one

    Calling it "useless" is a bit unkind.  This is the 'Sentinel', the only tank produced in quantity by the Australians in the Second Unpleasantness, and it's not bad for a second effort (the first being the ghastly 'Bob Semple') since the Ockers had no tradition of tank design or building and not much in the way of heavy industry.  Only 65 were made before bigger and better tanks from Perfidious Albion and South Canada arrived en masse, so the Sentinels were put into storage.  Apparently some were rigged up to look like Teuton tanks for the film "The Rats of Tobruk", but I can't find any images of them.  Sorry.

Have a picture of water hyacinths instead

"Edge Of Darkness" 2010
I refer to the film starring Mel Gibson, rather than the splendid British television series.  There are some SPOILERS hereafter, so be warned.  I shall leave a gap so you're not tempted to peek.


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The film is set in South Canada, and, where in the television series the dubious character Jedburgh was from South Canada, here, in a nice conceit, he's from the Allotment of Eden.  He also ends up extremely dead, whereas the television version survived.*
     Tom Craven, as played by Mel Gibson, also ends up very dead ineed, whereas the version played by Bob Peck stayed healthy and hearty.  There is a horribly schmaltzy end scene that risked sending me into a diabetic coma.

Tom and Jedburgh got on famously.
Then they died.

Television's Jedburgh prepares to bring two lumps of plutonium into close contact ...

     The plot twist is an interesting one, too.  Whereas the television series' secret was the production of plutonium, in the film the generic bad guys - An Eeeeevil Corporation - are trying to build nuclear warheads that have the isotopic signature of someone elses nukes.  This, frankly, is a worrying idea: I don't know how technically feasible it is, but now that the concept is out there somebody is going to action it!

And with that we are done!  I now have to take a small furry member of the family for walkies.  Edna?  Walkies?

<sound of rapidly fading footsteps>


*  Well, for a while; he had been fatally irradiated.