Bricking It

Here We Need Some Translation 
For here in the Allotment of Eden, "To brick it" means "To be extremely scared", thanks to an allusion to one's bowel movements being of terra cotta rather than -
     Which is entirely too much detail.  
     And quite beside the point, since we are back on the extremely fruitful topic of Lego, which is where the "Bricking" bit comes in.  <stands back to bask in applause, hears none, sulks and continues>.
     Okay, I have now returned to the building site which threw up the "Pacific Rim" Lego build, and we have a real show-stopper.  Art?



     You need to be able to view this at an angle to see 1) How ingenious it is, and 2) How frickin' enormous it is.

Thus

     I suppose I ought to throw in the original film poster that the above references, so you can check it out for accurate replication (which sounds like something The Thing does itself ...) -

     Okay, now that we've opened with this film, we have to tread very very carefully, since the slightest pun or mention of anything to do with fire will result in R. J. MacReady suddenly appearing with a flamethrower, desperate to burn shizzle.
     But still - that's a cool Lego build, is it not?
     Motley!  We are now going to go down the ski ramp, except backwards and blindfold, which will make it extra exciting!*

SpongeBob As Legal Exemplar
As I think I've already mentioned, Devin Stone of the Youtube channel "Legal Eagle" has finally succumbed to viewer demand and is perusing the SpongeBob episode "Krabs vs Plankton", diving in to make legal notes every now and then.

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     It's extremely amusing to see A Proper Lawyer interrupting a (rather knowing) kid's cartoon in order to make legal points, and illuminating, too.  For one, DS points out that yes, sometimes fate does mean the lead legal counsel has to drop out before trial and some other poor schmick** has to take over, as SpongeBob (ILLEGALLY!) does.  DS uses the example of his friend, who had to take over the Roundup case against Monsanto a couple of weeks before trial, when the lead counsel was injured in a windsurfing accident.  Only in California, eh?     
     Ol' Dev also points out that it is a spectacularly bad idea to be your own counsel, as Plankton does, because there's a reason lawyers go to law school and pay vast sums to do so for years on end whilst flogging their intellects mercilessly.  You may be free of charge to yourself, and you will find that you get exactly what you pay for.      Also, Plankton puts his already allegedly injured bod at risk, for he drives his electric wheelchair - no, I don't know how an electrical appliance works on the bottom of the ocean either - right up to the jury without asking permission.  As DS points out, in real life this will get you physically tackled by the court bailiff
      I can't caption this properly as it causes the text to dance around.  Take it as is.

     Enough legal nonsense!  Let us proceed to talk about LITHIUM WAFER BATTERY DESI - on second thoughts, perhaps not.

More Of TANK
Because you can never have too much of TANK in your life, unless you wake up to find one parked on your doorstep, in which case the Ruffians have invaded, so ensure your Emergency Bribe Store of vodka is well to the fore***.
     Anyway, back to Hobart's Funnies of the 79th Armoured Division, and let us meet a Churchill carrying a Small Box Girder bridge.  Art?

"Small" by comparison, I guess

     This ingenious mechanical contrivance enabled gaps of up to 30 feet to be rapidly spanned, which was frequently, because the retreating Teutons regularly blew up every bridge they could get their dirty cur-ish hands upon, in order to delay their pursuers.
     Then we come to the Churchill Crocodile, probably one of the nastiest weapons the Allies ever deployed and which we have had recourse to describe in these pages before.  Art?

A artist's impression, because being this close and in front was not a good idea in real life

     Ol' Jim describes one of these at work on D-Day, attacking what the Teutons called a "Tobruk", which was a bunker with an old French tank turret on top.  The bunker had already managed to knock out a Sherman tank that incautiously got sideways on, before the Crocodile came rumbling up.

An example, intact

     The bunker fired on the Churchill, at which the shells simply bounced off; the Churchill then fired back, knocking the tank turret clean off the bunker, before slathering everything in range with blazing napalm, at which the terrified survivors fled with such blind panic that they ran into one of their own minefields.  Their day could only get better.  Apparently Teuton infantry hated and feared the Crocodile even more than Allied tankmen hated and feared the Tiger, and with good cause.
     So, the forces of Perfidious Albion were not quite the rules-following sportsmen you might expect from watching cricket.  Perhaps rugby?

What Have I Stumbled Into (Part Umpteen)?
Another Lego build inspired by classic sci-fi films, this one is the USS Nostromo from "Alien", which, if Art will get off his behind and put down his plate of coal -

The USS Nostromo

     I can't enlargen any further to obtain more detail as the picture will then breach the sides of Blogger and blow up the internet.  Still, even at this distance an impressive beast, hmmm?  Sadly I can't find any more details about this as the Flickr page it linked to no longer exists, so we can only guess how many bricks this took and how long was spent clicking them together.  Calls of "Seventy-three and half-an-hour" will be treated with icy contempt.

Conrad, being icily contemptuous
(It comes naturally)

Finally -
We have actually hit the Compositional Ton, so I don't really need to keep on, yet I will since there's still eight minutes of lunch left to type in.
     Er - has Thomas Pynchon published a new novel yet?  (A perennial question here at BOOJUM!).
     No.
     Therefore, Conrad is angry.  I know, I know, I'm always angry - angrier than usual.  There.  Happy now?

We want more!

*  Don't worry, there are doctors.
**  Like a schmuck, but worse.
***  If you have a crate of it, you can probably buy their tank from them^.
^  This has happened in real life