Feeling A Little Saw

 I Warned You

I WARNED YOU!  Cast your mind back a couple of years, to when Conrad was creating titles that spoofed 'tea' in all it's infinite varieties.  I managed that for a couple of months, there being a large number of tea species and varieties to draw from.  Do you think I'm going to be any less relentless now?

     Right.  Art!  Less coal more goal!

     There's a little foreshortening in play here, thanks to perspective and camera angles, though you can still see that Your Modest Artisan has done about 10% of the whole thing.  Still haven't found that missing edge piece, and it really is missing as that side musters only 29 pieces as opposed to the other side's 30.

     Conrad: born 70 years too late for Bletchley Park.

Not Sure If This Is Irony Or - Well, What

     Let us now approach the borders of Acceptable on BOOJUM! because what we are about to attend comes close to our proscription about Religion and Politics.

     Okay, cult science fiction series "Star Trek" took some dangerously liberal choices in the mid- to late Sixties.  

      For one thing, having a Scot as one of the "Enterprise"'s senior crew, in charge of those mighty engines - well, since the Scots tended to be used as Comedy Miserly Relief/Comedy Drunken Relief, it was a bit of a revelation. Art?

Don't worry, Scotty, the scriptwriters most certainly can.

     James Doohan, the actor pictured above, was a proud BRITISH AMERICAN who served in the Canuckistanian army in the Second Unpleasantness, where he was known for his attitude of "I Really Don't Care If I Live Or Not As I Fly My Observation Aircraft At Danger High And Danger Close".

     Anyway, what do we have here?  ART!

Irony of an unusual kind at work

     Here you see two South Canadian and British American actors, both of Jewish heritage, pretending to be hideous Teuton stalwarts.  Conrad only discovered that actor William Shatner was Jewish earlier this week; one can only imagine the howls of horror from neo-Nazi nebbishes over the past decades as they realise their Aryan fetish focus was - 

     Well yes I did say we were skirting the edge, and now we shall remove our long, be-taloned toes from the water and move on.  

     Edna!  Kindly lick this porridge bowl clean, before it dries and sets like concrete - a dirty job yet thank you for doing it.

Because we can

     Here's a secret about my morning porridge: to stop if from cloggifying, and going cold, I add some of my Darjeeling from the pot.  Problem solved!

Worcester Source

Ha!  Do you see what - O you do.  This town is one of the reasons English is so puzzling to those not gifted with having it as their mother tongue.  It is pronounced "Wooster" as in Bertie, and, you may not realise, was the site of one of the very last battles of the English Civil Unpleasantness.  

     This is where things get complicated, the English Civil Unpleasantness being like that.  Charles II had landed in Scotland the year before, declaring himself king, meaning Crommy - I beg your pardon, Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell - had invaded Scotland as a result.  There weren't going to be any kings on his watch!

Scotland.  Beautiful but a bit bleak.

     So, whilst Crommy was beating his opponents in the east of Scotland, Chas Two and the Scottish army invaded England from the west of Scotland.  They got as far south as Worcester, which town opened the gates for them - and hoped they'd keep on going (they had not had a good war).

      And - there we shall leave it for the moment.  Art?

Worcester

Porridge, Sauce - And Now, Ham

To start things off, no, I haven't "Got Ham", but I do have "Some Pork" - ha!  Okay, okay, I should probably apologise for a pun so awful that the ICC are looking into it.

     Some years ago Conrad noticed buses were sporting a poster that advertised a television series, "Gotham", which he kind of paid vague attention to.  Art?

<Insert meat-based pun here>

     Your Humble Scribe is now watching the first season, which initially came out in 2014; Conrad doesn't like to rush into things*.

     The idea is to look at the early days of Jim Gordon, as he rubs shoulders with people destined to grow into characters we know from Batman.  It struck Conrad that Gotham is pretty much the opposite of Metropolis, being the city of darkness as opposed to the city of light.  Umbraberg versus Luxemburg (yes that's what it means**)?  You can tell a lot from the colour (PLEASE NOTE CORRECT SPELLING) palette used in advertising, and this one is pretty grim.  Although Conrad thought the concept of murder-by-weather-balloon-hoisting was hilarious***.

Up, up and away!

     Plus there was a running joke about the "Major Crimes Unit" - initials M.C.U. -which also happens to stand for "Marvel Comic Universe".  Not sure if that was intentional or not.  How clever I feel in spotting it.

Finally -

Don't expect a second post today, as I am working.  Conrad has already complained about this on Facebook, and now I'm doing it here, too.  If you don't care to hear the ranting and tanting of an old man, then whose blog is it?

     I am hammering away presently during my lunchtime, as I would never pause during my working hours to add a couple of hundred words and a picture - I have targets to hit!

"Farrago": I intend to use this word when I publish my link on Facebook, and - you know Conrad (perhaps a little too well ...), I just had to look it up.

This came up when I Googled

     My Collins Concise stated that it comes from the Latin <spits> for cattle feed, which was all kinds of stuff mashed together.  So there you have it.

And with that, we are done!  Now for a crack at that Codeword ...

*  Still not keen on that modern upstart, the mobile phone.

**  This annoys the Parisians immensely as they consider their city to be THE "City of Light".

***  It wasn't just me, was it?