Yes, gentle readers, we continue with the theme of being at sea, or, more precisely, underneath it.
Here an aside. This is the only day of the year when I can legitimately bang on about the following nursery rhyme -
"The big ship sails on the alley alley oh,
The alley alley oh, the alley alley oh,
The big ship sails on the alley alley oh,
On the last day of the September."
A big ship. Just so we're clear. |
Going back to the title of tonight's post, I can inform you that it comes from that fillum "Bedknobs and Broomsticks", where Angela Lansbury and David Tomlinson cavort on submarine sands. Art?
"Cavort" as in dance, you dirty-minded rascals. |
David, plus chicken. It's in the basket, before you ask. |
Volcano to port, city to starboard |
Blurry but as good as you're going to get. |
Your insight into set design and lighting |
Take a good look at that picture, because when we cut later to the "pump room" as described by Vincent Price, what do we see but the following - Art?
Plainly this does not match with the rest of the film. I haven't seen "Atragon" yet your humble scribe is fairly certain the scene above was lifted directly from it also. Those do look uncannily like 1960's electro-mechanical control apparatii after all, don't they?
Okay, time to put the motley in the forward torpedo tube and see how far we can propel it underwater!*
When I Say "Mortar" I'm Not Talking Of Bricks -
I know you all love, simply love, to hear about what military history work I am currently reading, which at the moment is "The Seventh Division 1914 - 1918", and I've just got up to the long preparatory bombardment prior to the Somme campaign.
Here another aside. The British (and French) gunners, as well as their hapless Teuton victims, would violently disagree with the campaign being said to start on July 1st 1916. The artillery began it's shooting on the 24th of June, it was the infantry attacks that went in on 1/7/16.
About to deliver some bad news |
The Number One |
The Number Fifteen |
The Number Sixteen |
Finally -
In confirmation that I am a truly horrible person (which the jury can attest to), I have been laughing myself sick at the Have Your Say comments over on the Beeb's sports pages, because the incessant bilious invective is always amusing. They are already up to 113 pages of Comments about someone called Joe Mourinho. Here's a relatively sedate comment from Petronius123:
If I gave 50% for my 22k per annum I would be shown the door.
Pogba is a lazy, self important, overpaid, infantile dullard.
Yes, "sedate", because although Auntie Beeb doesn't allow swearing, lots of people have gotten around this by using asterisks or substitute letters or symbols. ? as an example, can take the place of a "P" and I leave the rest up to your imagination.
POGs. Close enough. |
* In keeping with the submarine theme.
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