Oh Dear

Don't Worry, Nothing Major
If you recall, yesteryon I was going on about the Mandela Effect, which is a spectacularly obtuse bit of theorising about alternative universes, backdated changes in the timestream, amended reality and how people mis-remember things.  Because all that chaos and amendation of time and space is, somehow, easier as an explanation that the simple fact that Hom. Sap. has a fallible memory.  This was put forward as an example of human stupidity - there was a long diversion about Albert Einstein - and I did say that there were real-world consequences of people mis-remembering.  Art?

The titular and portly Captain Pugwash

     "Captain Pugwash" was a semi-animated cartoon for children broadcast in the Sixties and repeated in later broadcasts.  By the Eighties a Guardian journalist openly put into print the allegation that certain character names were double entendres  - and this is where BOOJUM! borders NSFW territory <ahem> such as "Roger The Cabin Boy", "Seaman Staines" and "Master Bates".

Surprise!

     The production company behind CP took issue and the owner, Mr. Ryan, sued successfully.  The actual names were Tom the Cabin Boy, Master Mate and there was no Seaman character at all.  I have a book called "The Golden Age of Television" that also repeated this canard; after going to press a small additional page pointing out that the canard was just that, was added into the back pages so that they wouldn't get sued, too.
     Okay, motley, shall we play pirates?

Perhaps this.

Conrad, Judged
Judged, I tell you!  Your Humble Scribe keeps track of how much time is spent away from his desk at work by writing it down - as you should know by now Conrad is a dinosaur and if it's not written down it doesn't exist.  Art?

Thus

     Note how the photo carefully avoids getting anyone's name into shot.  Data protection, don't you know.  So, the "3 + 4" above means 7 minutes Comfort Break taken.
     Whilst trawling through the endlessly entertaining activities of Hom. Sap.'s crazier members on the Rationalwiki website, what did I come across but the item "Green Ink".  Art?

     In case your eyesight is a bit dodgy, the article begins ' "Green Ink" is a British journalistic term for the frothing of lunatics.'
     I would like to point out that my comprehensively-filled notebook is written in sensible, solid black ink.  Also, BOOJUM! cannot be considered as the " - frothing of lunatics" because there's only one of us here.  Singular.  Which is what we are*.

Conrad -  Still Hates All Musicals!
I just thought I'd put that one out there for you.  I've expressed this opinion here on the blog many years ago, and it still holds true.  "The Return Of Captain Invincible" and "The Blues Brothers" are films with songs in them, which is completely different**, and "This Is Spinal Tap" is a documentary**.

Alan Arkin at his Arkin-est

     All other musicals can kiss my hairy white posterior.  Plus, I am not going to ever watch "Bohemian Rhapsody" so don't bring that one up, either.
     I feel better for having vented a bit.  But I am still angry.

     Don't worry, this below will all make sense on Facebook.

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Conrad - Still Angry!
At the Codeword compilers in the M.E.N. because they keep on using foreign words and what one might deem to be vulgarisms if not outright abbreviations.  The damn things are hard enough to solve without having words like "AMMO" included.  Either "AMMUNITION" or nothing.  Nor should they have used "DEMO".  "DEMONSTRATION" or nothing.
     Conrad has spoken!
     And, because I'm still angry, I shall continue speaking.  Friday's paper had a collection of really outre words.  The one I'm looking at now is "LARYNX".  Art?

One of your our gloppy interior parts

     I bet it has a Greek root <Googles>  Yup.  "Larynx" directly from the Cyrillic.  Also known as the "Voice Box", so do you see what I did with that line about "Speaking"?
     Of course I got the answer without having to cheat, as I'm brilliant with words, but just think of the rest of those desperate codeword solvers, pulling out handfuls of hair, because what else has the letters "Y" and "X" in it?

The Oryx, actually.  How clever am I!

      So does "Oxymoron", which is not what you think it is and at this point I think I'd better stop being so annoyingly clever***.

Give That Man A Cigar!
As you should know by now, Conrad is a spelling and grammar fascist of the very worst kind, or the best, depending on your viewpoint.  It's just the way Your Humble Scribe's mind works; a spelling mistake will leap off the page and slap him around the chops instantly.
     I'm glad to see that it's not just me.  Art?

     Not sure if your glazzies are up to the job, so I shall type it out for you.  Goofs: in the closing credits, immediately under "Standby Carpenter" is says "Standy Rigger" - this should be "Standby Rigger".  Well spotted, sir (or madam)!  That takes eyesight and attention to detail of a very high order, as well as the determination to hang around and watch the end credits in their entirety, which, once again, is something that I'm glad to have company with.  Besides, there might be an post-credit scene.

Finally -
There was a post-credit scene in "The Avengers", wasn't there?  About the gang hanging out in a catering place that made shwarmas, if that's how they're spelled.  Art?

Thus.  And it's "Shawarma"

     Your Modest Artisan is unsure what a "Shawarma" is.  Hang on <Googles> aha - Art?

Dammit, now I feel hungry

     Apparently it's meat and salad in a wrap, and originates in the Middle East.  Now we know.  I believe it was Tony Stark who declared that, if he survived the alien invasion, he'd definitely give the shawarma a try, because there's no victory celebration like having meat and salad in a wrap.  Or something.




*  Yes, this contradicts the previous assertion.  Get used to it.
**  Because I say so.  Get used to it.
***  It means something that contradicts itself, like "neo-Nazi intellectual".