Er - Vikings?

Forgive Me If I Whisper
The traffic figures are faintly alarming, gentle reader - over 200 hits yesteryon, which is a bit of a record.  I can only speculate that people out there are desperate to read about vikings, and skeletons, and especially viking skeletons.  It might be true; stranger things have happened.  
     Anyway, I have been utilising Spotify Premium to listen to the very excellent Danish indie electro-popsters Carpark North, and their - what's that?  Well, yes, the Danes were vikings way back.  You're reaching a bit there, frankly.

Art!  You're undercutting my authority!

     Where were we?  O yes - Carpark North.  It's difficult to find their stuff on CD in the UK, so Spotify is an acceptable substitute.  Mind you, I couldn't find Blood Donor's seminal "Rice Harvest" single on Spotify, though it's right there on Youtube.
     Minnesota!  There, that ought to have taken you by surprise.  This is, of course, one of the South Canadian states, which was heavily settled by Scandinavians in the Nineteenth Century - and I think you can guess where this is going.

A South Canadian "football"

     They play that peculiarly Americanised version of Rugby, which by some hideous mistake is known as "Football", and no, I've no idea why.  So, the Minnesotan NFL team is known as the "Vikings", which does have a certain logic to it.  They have a logo, which, if Art will stop snacking on coking fuel -

Thus
(Not someone you'd want to cross, hmmm?)

     Their fans also wear an item of head apparel called a "Helga Hat", after the supposed horned helmets that Vikings didn't really wear, although if it makes them happy and stops people running senselessly amok -
           

     And I think that's enough wibble about South Canada's strange sports and hobbies.  Hopefully this will satiate the public's endless demand for All Things Viking.  If not, I have an item or two to follow up with.
     Motley!  You and I need exercise.  Put your foot-hooves on, and we'll both walk the dog.  Don't whinge, it'll help you work up an appetite - we've got some lutefisk in the fridge.

Time Will Tell
Conrad had a few minutes before the bus arrived at Chadderton yesteryon, so he stooged around a couple of charity shops and failed to find any books on military history.
     But wait - what's this?  Art?

     As you can see, all the little compartments were empty, so I felt rather disappointed, until I lifted the actual playing board up, and there was a collection of shizzle.  'Twas but the work of minutes to sort the whole lot out, and to test the TARDIS; which made a noise, though there was no flashing light <sad face>.  Art?

Tidied away

     It seems that there is one thing missing: the spinner.  Since there was a 6-sided die in with everything, I suspect someone has been compensating already.  Art?

     You can substitute a dice and chart for the various "Energy Levels" present, so it's not too onerous a job to - yes, it is upside down, I wanted to see if you were paying attention, congratulations, have a jam sandwich.

Conrad Not Sure About This
Yes, this might refer to the new car - we'll get round to that later - yet what I have in mind is the BBC trying to be clever about film goofs, in an article they begin by determining exactly who was responsible for leaving a 21st Century coffee cup in a "Game of Thrones" scene.

THE GUILTY PARTY

     They then go on to mention a gas cylinder visible in "Gladiator" when a chariot is overturned by the very same, except they don't bother to actually show the scene - bad BBC!  Naughty BBC! No jam sandwich for you!   I wonder if we here at BOOJUM! can do better.  Art?

Less Jumping Jack Flash than Crashing

     There you go.  It's apparent that nobody in editing or post-production caught this, and I am guessing that it's because it lasts for all of a fraction of a second.  No, I am not going to watch the whole film just to confirm my theory.  You do it.
     Next, they focus on "Braveheart", and state that there's a Ford Mondeo present in one scene where we witness a cavalry charge, but they once again don't bother to show the relevant scene.  Let BOOJUM! fearlessly produce the evidence!

A lower-centre port

     Since the audience, and editor, and everyone else, would be focussing on the earth-rattling impact of a cavalry charge, this error got kind of missed.  I don't remember it from watching the film itself, so again it's probably only there for a split-second; blink and you'll miss it, which isn't sufficient for the continuity nerds.
     I notice they don't mention that shoestring cult favourite, "The Earth Dies Screaming", where, as the end credits roll, you can see lots of traffic moving in the supposedly depopulated UK.  Art?

A bit of a fib, that title

     Er, quite - the Earth doesn't die, it's the people who shuffle off this mortal coil, and there's precious little screaming, too.  It does have several creepy moments, including one where the Silly Superfluous Woman rushes out to meet the 'Search and Rescue' team members, all clad in suits, only to find -

Surprise!

     I'm not going to bother about spoilers, it's positively ancient as a film and you ought to have seen it already, so there.
     We shall be coming back to the issue of film goofs, O yes for certain.

Finally -
Alas, the Murdermobile has been retired, having done over 91,000 miles, which is more than one-third of the way to the Moon if you'd care to think of it that way, or nearly four times around the planet, which is another metric.
     We now have a Ford Focus, which, in addition to all the stuff you need to drive (steering wheel, clutch, windscreen, CD player) has so many bells and whistles added on that driving has become rather bewildering.  Art?

Close enough

     So I shall shortly be driving it down to Royton, rather than walking, and that means I need to get some exercise by walking Edna as an alternative, which means -

Cheerio!