In A Clamour About A Fanner

Don't Worry, It's Not Rude
For do we here at BOOJUM! not pride ourselves on being SFW?  Yes we do, in case you were wondering.  I know we had a female bottom here on one occasion, but it was a statue's behind, not a flesh-and-blood one.

Another variety of Bottom

     Where was I?  Oh yes, in the light and airy Upper Dungeon, cleaning up the cobwebs.  The travelling Ukranian band I imprisoned there a while back appear to have dug their way to freedom, meaning I've got a tunnel to fill -
     - no, sorry, being too literal there.  This particular title comes thanks to 'The Rockford Files' about which more later.  Our hero Jim teases his police friend about 'fanning' his pistol like Roy Rogers.  Art?

Roy and Trigger.  And some bird.

     Actually, Art, I wanted a picture of a pistol being fanned.  Try again.

There you go.

    This is where the trigger is not pulled and the heel of the free hand pulls the hammer back before releasing it, in a fanning motion.  A skilled guntoter can loose off rounds as rapidly as an automatic weapon, but is unlikely to hit anything further off than absolutely point-blank range.
    Which brings me back to one of my childhood toys: the Fanner 50.  Art?

My model: chamber closed

Chamber open

      As you can see, there is room for a roll of caps, which feed upwards onto a spurred wheel.  When you fanned the hammer, it advanced the wheel, and when you let the hammer go, BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!went the caps.  I bet my parents hated it.
     Note that you ABSOLUTELY COULD NOT do that today; it looks far too realistic and the noise would rapidly bring the nearest police firearms unit tootling up, bristling with real guns.
     Okay, time to see if the motley can outrun an ostrich.  An ostrich with poison glands in it's beak!*

Getting Grim With Good Old Jim
Jim Rockford, that is, he of "The Rockford Files'.  I am into Season 3 now, and last night Jim went off to interview a farmer working his farm.  Art?

Character actor chappy, can't remember his name

     It turns out that our stalwart farmer is also a bit of a nut about The Inevitable Nuclear Holocaust, and has built himself a fallout shelter at the back of the yard.  Art?

That's the entrance

     This turns out to have plot relevance, as the bad guys turn up, also wanting to have a pleasant little chinwag with the stalwart farmer, before they kill him.  Jim departs at speed, pointing the farmer at his bunker, which he pops into just ahead of the bad guys.
     Don't forget, this was at the height of the Cold War, when lots of people lived in existential angst about the end of the world.
     And it's also relevant because -

I Feel The Fangs Of The Coincidence Hydra In My Bottom, Again

For what did the mighty BBC website have as a leading article on their front page yesteryon? Let us prod Art into motion.  Art!

A little rough and ready one feels

      This is Bruce, who has built his own nuclear bunker system by converting and burying 42 school buses in the ground, and if we prod Art again -

     Conrad would have thought shipping containers would be better, but then what do I know about nuclear bunker design?**
     The local community are all probably laughing behind Bruce's back, not to his face, because - well, it is hugely unlikely that anyone's going to target nuclear missiles at British America - but you never know ...

"LUSTRATE", "VIZARD" And "GAINLIERS"
Don't worry, still not swearing or rude, although your humble scribe did say Dog Buns! once or twice.  Those above are answers to Tuesday's Codeword, and I've never encountered any of them before.  
     "Lustrate" means to purify by religious ceremony, and it was used all the time - in the Seventeenth Century.  Today?  Not at all.
     "Vizard" is a kind of disguise.
     "Gainlier" does not occur in my Collins dictionary.  By inference it means to be more able and better-balanced on your feet, though that's a guess.
      Who's compiling this stuff?  Doctor Morbius?

Dr. Edward Morbius, philologist, muses:
"Zymyurgy - yeah, that would work."

    

*  I breed these in my spare time
**  "An awful lot more than the rest of us sensible people" I hear you retort.