No! That Is Not A Typo
You're thinking about a quote from that film I've never seen, and don't feel any the poorer for not seeing, and have no intention of ever seeing. I think it's called "Wally Street" and is about a were-lizard searching the millions of city-dwellers in Manhattan for one wearing a red striped top and a knitted cap. Art!
Gordon The Gecko
Something along those lines, and along the way he tries, in his uneducated and ungrammatical way (bless him!) to promote literacy by quoting "Read is good".
Well, you won't find Conrad disagreeing with you there. In fact this is a minor theme I shall come back to, O yes indeed Vulnavia. You see, there is this Yo
ANYWAY what I wanted to do was narrate a story told on Youtube about a mixed stew of greed, revenge, and The Law Of Unintended Consequences hitting with the force of a runaway locomotive. Conrad has to observe that you really, truly come to know people's character and behaviour when large sums of money are both involved and at stake. Art!
$450,000
At the centre of this pot of simmering vices and spices is Original Poster's dad, whom we learn later on was a cheating scumbag, but whom at story onset is merely married to the stepmother. Their offspring are OP's half-siblings, Jasper and Grasper.
Surprise! OP's grandparents shuffle off this mortal coil, having left a trust fund for OP amounting to $300,000, with the legally-binding instruction for them to split it between only their full-siblings, as they (OP) see fit. So, Jasper and Grasper are not entitled to anything in law. Got that? Art!
The other proviso is that the money is only accessible when the beneficiaries turn 21. OP, being of a generous turn of mind, decides that the money will be split 3 ways between herself and the two boys, $100,000 each, when they turn 21.
With me so far?
Jasper turns 21 first and gets $50,000 as he requested the money in portions.
OP, meanwhile, buys a house for $130,000 and dips into the fund to pay for the excess that she doesn't have, making repayments to the fund to bring it back up to $195,000. By the time Grasper hits 21 she'll have repaid it plus interest to the value of $208,000. Art!
But Jasper and Grasper decide this is jolly not on, that they've been robbed and they're going to sue sue sue, for $16,000 that they are so, so, so entitled to.
You can see where today's title comes from, can't you?
In a splendid display of She Who Controls The Purse Strings, OP said if that was their attitude and behaviour, then the $50,000 already delivered was all that either of them were getting, since neither were legally eligible and she considered it fair.
Cue sad faces and earnest agreement from the half-brothers.
PSYCH! No, of course - obviously! - there wasn't any such action. Like millennials everywhere, they took to social media to whine. Art!
Things then got very strange. OP was contacted by 'Chris', a complete stranger who claimed to be her half-brother, and was able to prove it. It turned out that he was in possession of $150,00 also put into trust by the grandparents (who seem to have been very well informed about dad's extra-familial activities) for the dad's illegitimate children. Not only that, there was another half-sibling in the background. Chris had only been able to track OP down thanks to the graceless grating greedy gobbing of Jasper and Grasper on social media. Art!
Now you know why $450,000
Both Chris and OP took legal counsel, which confirmed that the greedy gobbing brothers were entitled to exactly $0. Ouch! Further, Jasper had absolutely NO INTENTION of sharing his $50,000 with Grasper, who may have gone prematurely bald from ripping his hair out.
Not only that, it transpired that stepmother knew nothing of these other half-siblings or about dad playing away from home, and she was royally enraged, to the point of kicking dad out so he's now living in a hotel and awaiting the divorce papers.
So - the genius brothers managed to divest themselves of $150,000, bear unremitting hatred between themselves, and break up their parent's marriage, all in service to the God Of Greed. Well done, lads, really!
Ah Yes, About Books
Conrad recently came across a Youtube channel calling itself "WW2TV", and one of the thumbnails caught my eyes and attention. Art!
Nicholas Moran has his own channel on Youtube, "The Chieftain's Hatch" and also a gig at "World Of Tanks" which is fair enough as he's been an Abrams and Bradley commander.
What next caught my eye was another myth-busting vlog, where the guest presenter was Robin Prior, a name that sounded familiar. Art!
Conrad, as your favourite hair-splitting pedant, got in there, watched the whole thing and made notes, which you're definitely going to get to see. You lucky people.
The thing is, I posted a comment on the thread below, to the effect of:
"To paraphrase David French in "Raising Churchill's Armies" - 'The Germans wanted to be warriors; the British decided to be soldiers.""
Then I dug up DF's work and - the passage is not in the conclusion. It's not in the Introduction. I will need to read the whole work in order to ensure it is indeed absent. I also dug up two other works it might have been in: Professor John Buckley's "British Armour In Normandy" and "Monty's Men" (both excellent and highly recommended).
Nope. So I shall have to read both of them to ensure it is indeed absent.
Dog Buns! I distinctly remember reading that paragraph. Just - where! Art?
WRONG! No, this item isn't about the Icelandic eruption. This eruption will be several thousand miles west of the Island Nation Consisting Of All The Bits That Were Left Over After Creation, and it will be centred precisely where Pumpkinhead is lurking. Why so? Art!
I will have to wait until later tomorrow for other pundits over in South Canada to break down the nuances and legal niceties of this decision. Conrad can, mind, confidently predict that Donald Buck will be in a state of frothing stroke-inducing rage tonight and will pound his keyboard into oblivion as he posts ALL CAPS RANTS on Truth Social. Art!
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| "Donald was known for his owl impersonations" |
"City In The Sky"
Evil alien scheme at least partially-thwarted, the Doctor is looking to inform his audience of more details, to keep them safer and more alert.
‘Good question – ah - ’
‘Seamus.’
‘Seamus. These aliens want Earth,
make no mistake about that. Don’t be too
hard on Don, he didn’t carry out mischief of his own free will, these wretched
infiltrators have messed about with his mind so that he does their bidding, and
so did the people who began the Big Crash and perpetuated it.’
Seeing that this created a sense of worry and unease, he hurried on.
‘As to what you can do, Seamus, you and all the coastal people – er,
“coasties”. You can return to your own
townships and pass on what I’ve told you tonight. These aliens greatest asset was their secrecy
– nobody knew about them and they were careful not to bring any attention down
upon themselves. That’s gone now.’
Which was rather worrying – taking a drastic step like revealing the
existence of a Wanderer as an android infiltrator spoke of desperate
measures. He’d not expected such a
ill-considered response.
Standing to one side of the stage, Alex asked a pertinent question,
kicking the remnants of the android lying at his feet.
‘What about this thing? Are there
going to be more like them?’
I kind of doubt the author would have gone to this length for a single appearance.
Pantless Perverted Bare Bear
Conrad doesn't mind kicking Disney whilst they're down. Let's bring on a picture of the titular character I'm referring to. Art!
This is no accident, South Canadian animators of CHILDREN'S cartoons regularly omit both underwear and outerwear for these animals, in a disgusting display of disingenuousness. When I take over these pictures will be rendered SFW thanks to AI intervention.
Of course - obviously! - we here in This Sceptred Isle do the animation properly. Art!
Smartly-dressed, not looking like an unmade bed, and with a scarf, too.This is the way
Finally -
One day closer to Christmas <shudders in horror>.
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