Upping The Ante For Auntie's Anti

Yes Indeedy Ally Sheedy
 - I decided I didn't want to use "Yes By Jove Michael Gove" as this might be seen as adding an unwanted and unwonted Political aspect to BOOJUM! because, as you already know from long readership - you HAVE been reading this for a long time, haven't you? - we here at the blog avoid Politics, Religion and (usually) Current Affairs*.

Our pally, Ally

     Okay, back to language and etymology - which is the study of WORDS not INSECTS (you are thinking of "Entomology") - and Conrad was either pondering whilst in the shower or on the walk in to the Dark Tower and work, for the similarity and difference between words had struck him.  This happens sometimes and is both one of the blessings and drawbacks of having a mind like a dustbin.
     Anyway: "Anti" - which my Collins Concise** defines as "Against; opposite; rival; from the Greek "Anti".  Art?

The Antikythera Mechanism
(which is NOT proof of aliens!)

     Then we have "Ante".  Which the Collins Concise (please note no apostrophe in 'Collins' and thank you for being as pedantic as I) defines as: "Before in time or position, from the Latin".  Art?

This is Antebellum architecture

     Here an aside, as you may not be as nippy in Latin THAT DAMNED ZOMBIE LANGUAGE as I am.  "Antebellum" is literally "Before the war" and refers to a style of architecture in South South Canada that existed before their Civil War; it seems to involve a lot of Doric columns and multiple storeys, and is a whole other story for a different day.
     Then we have "Auntie", which the CC defines as coming from the Latin "Amita", and refers to the sister of one's parent when formal, or any senior female friend when informal.  Why, people even refer to the venerable British Broadcasting Corporation as "Auntie Beeb", for reasons that escape me.

Auntie Pig.  There are so many things wrong with this it would take a whole post to deal with it

     There you go, three words that sound similar - homonyms? - with completely different roots and origins, although the "Auntie" one only works with the other two if you have a terrifically-pronounced Received English accent.  Which I do, and which you will just have to take on trust until we here at BOOJUM! create a podcast***.
     Right, motley, let us make a Last Chance Power Try! - as espoused by one Bruce Springsteen as a method of avoiding traffic jams (I think).

A Matter Of NovelTea
As you should surely know by now, Conrad is the very epitome of Britishness, and the only reason you don't see him in a suit wearing a bowler hat is because he is an immense scruff who hates wearing suits, and bowler hats are for people who live in Kensington and work in Whitehall.
     So, being ever so Brit, Your Humble Scribe is, of course, heavily into tea.  The drink, not the meal.  Thus, anything new to do with tea has immense resonance with me.  Thus - Art?

Thus
(which we have probably over-used by now)

     A stainless steel teapot for 0.99 pence, with an ingrained tea-stain on the inner surface that ferocious scrubbing could not remove and which is proof that the previous owner used this pot a lot.  I have borrowed the inner container from an old Bodum-knock off teapot and used that to make this brew, which has worked very well.  The stainless steel also pours very nicely, which is another important aspect of your teapot, for if you are without-spout your teapot tends to dribble.  Not only that, thanks to the thin steel walls, this teapot holds almost as much as the much larger brown china one hiding under the cosy to starboard.
     A big thank you to Wonder Wifey, who swept it up from a charity shop.

Aristophanes, who may have liked tea were it present in his lifetime

What Have I Stumbled Into!
If you are not into models and model-making - NOT ladies lounging around not wearing a lot and being photographed from all angles thank you very much and how did Kate Moss ever get to be a success with her little piggy eyes? - er yes, model-making, then you may not be aware of the predilection of same to create dioramas, also known as Showing-Off Scenery.  We've had some of this stuff way back, but let us illustrate it again.  Art?

An example

     I think you get the idea.  Well, there is an army of Lego builders out there who have the same desire to create a scene, except they do it in Lego rather than with plastic model kits and some scratch-building.  Here's one that I came across which deserves a second look - Art?



     In case you don't recognise it, this is one of the set-piece scenes from "Pacific Rim", where the Jaeger (that whacking big robot) takes on one of the Kaiju (not sure if this is the correct name but I'm using it), and beats the living tar out of it WITH A SHIP.

Sic
(We've used "Thus" too often)

     You can imagine the clean-up teams coming along to shift rubble and giant dead alien lizard, and the chap in charge has to sign-off on the Cause Of Termination (GZ715/22) Certificate.

     "CAUSE OF DEATH:  Blunt force trauma
   RELEVANT WEAPON (FOR FUTURE USE PLEASE ALSO COPY TO HZ715/11): Ship
   ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: 500 ton freighter Kyobi Maru"
    
      Still, it's a cool diorama, is it not?

Finally -
We've not had mention of TANK so far in this evening's post, an omission I must make haste to amend!  Sorry if you thought you'd got away with it.
     Anyway, there I am, reading James Holland's "Normandy 44", when what do I see but a wrongly-attributed photograph.  Ol' Jim declares that it's a knocked-out Panther tank, when in fact it's a knocked-out King Tiger.  Doubtless the Wehraboos are weeping and wailing at this point, putting on hair-shirts and rubbing ashes into their hair at the prospect of one of their Wunder-Waffen being destroyed - they are odious gimps in this respect - but I can definitely affirm that at page 468+3 the defunct panzer is a Tiger II.

An image only slightly different from that in Ol' Jim's work
(Weep, Wehraboos, weep!)

     And with that we are done!


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