The Phrase Which Led Me Astray
Much as the real thing is supposed to. I had a conceit all ready in my mind, and went to my faithful "Brewer's Dictionary Of Phrase And Fable" to look up today's title, and what did I find? Art!
Except not
I remember this cartoon fondly, but not only was it completely absent from BDOPAF, so was the phrase. Instead, it directed me to "IGNIS FATUUS", which happens to be Latin for 'Foolish Fire'.
What on earth?
All I can do (which boosts the word count) is repeat what they describe: "The will o' the wisp, or friar's lanthorn, a flame-like phosphorescence caused by the spontaneous combustion of gasses from decaying vegetable matter, that flits over marshy ground and deludes people who attempt to follow it."
Okay, got the memo: will o' the wisp is a distraction that will lead you astray and vanish - put a pin in this for later. It goes by any number of pseudonyms along the way: elf-fire, jack o'lantern, peg-a lantern, kit o' the canstick, spunkie, walking fire, fair maid of Ireland and John in the wad. There's some Ruffian folklore about it, which we will politely ignore. Art!
Possibly the most disturbing example is that seen in the Dead Marshes in "Lord Of The Rings", which are the polar opposite of Ol' Willo, being hostile and malevolent.
Well well well Steve Cantrell, look whose images I dug up yesteryon after I'd put my blog to bed, courtesy 'Bricktop_NAFO' over on Twitter. Art!
Poster kids for 'hostile and malevolent'
Tim "The Uncool Fool" Pool has suddenly turned into Ukraine's biggest fanboy in a reversion of character that is hilarious to behold. Grovel, Tim, grovel! Johnson is threatening legal action against anyone who comments on his indictment because he's an innocent victim who had no idea his $400,000 per month had anything to do with Barad-Duh.
Which brings us to the meat of the matter for today. Art!
At this point any reputable press or media would deploy what Rudyard Kipling called his 'Six Sub-editors': Who, What, How, Why, Where and When. These are the underpinnings of good journalism. Needless to say, when the BBC Verify team began to dig, they found a positive warren of rabbitholes. Art!
No other identification was provided bar her name and age - 26. She claimed to have been hit by a car driven by Kamala Harris, without any proof. Two x-rays provided proved to be of two completely different people, taken in 2010 and 2017. There are no details of Harris being involved in an accident in 2011. There is no record of a KBSF news outlet in San Francisco, or indeed anywhere. Art!
Reverse-image searching showed this to be a road traffic accident in Guam.
The website had opened only in August 2024 and is no longer extant, but it had done it's job, as a lot of right-wing media and commentators immediately latched onto it and promoted it widely. It is doubtful in the extreme as to whether any of them will have the integrity to admit their slavering hatred of political opponents had them chasing a will o' the wisp.
Who could be responsible?
O come on, as I said yesteryon, only people who are genuinely surprised at the big reveal at the end of "Scooby Doo" won't realise it was - the Ruffians! Art!
This bald dastard is John Mark Dougan, a deputy sheriff in South Canada who was under investigation for extortion and computer hacking, and who took the logical next step of
Conrad The Comic Critic
A bit of analytical focus on "Judge Dredd The Megazine" may be merited here.
Okay, as you ought to remember, Conrad had narrowed his eyes and declared that he was going to do some review work on the story "Raptaur", which took place in the early reign of JDTM. Art!
The beast itself
Artwork by Dean Ormston, in his early years. You may not like it, or you may be a fan, but you're not going to mistake him for another scrawler. Art!
The incredible vanishing Rappy. Further to Ol' Stony Face's plaintive quote, we do know that 'fecal samples' prove that Rappy is a silica-based life-form, rather than God's Noble Ideal, carbon.
All told, Rappy's body count that I tallied comes to between 40 and 50 bodies, and all over a three-day span, so it gets the Work Ethic award for Busiest Murder in the Big Meg.
BUT! I have questions. Where does it come from? We aren't told. Conrad has a couple of year's worth of JDTM after this story and - nary a Rappy in sight. How can it vanish from electronic monitoring systems as in the picture above? We aren't told. How did it arrive in Mega-City One undetected? We aren't told. Bear in mind that the Judges maintain a VERY strict watch over who gets into the Big Meg. There is a perpetual state of low-level warfare on the city's western limits with the mutant hordes trying to get in, and on the eastern side, bordering the Black Atlantic, nothing can survive in the toxic seas. Art!
Any answers, please attach in a Comment.
"The War Illustrated Edition 194 November 24th 1944"
Yes, we move onto another edition of the fortnightly magazine, which, once again, was publishing info two weeks out of date thanks to OPSEC. Art!
This is a fascinating snapshot in time, which neither Tito nor the Teutons could have imagined would have happened waaaaay back in 1941 when Yugoslavia was invaded by the Teutons, who were, at the time, very best mates with the Sinisters.
Yugoslavia was both unique and fortunate that it liberated itself from the Axis yoke, because it meant it could keep the Sinisters at arm's length. Yes, they were brothers in Socialism, but neither Tito nor his countrymen trusted the Sinisters as far as they could spit. And, for one thing, the Allies had supplied Tito's Partisans with shedloads of kit by air and sea across the Adriatic, when the best Moscow could manage was platitudes. Art!
Niš (pronounced 'Nish') a year later in 1945, with a blue-on-red where the South Canadian air force mixed with the Sinisters, accidentally. Entirely accidentally. Completely by accident. Definitely not on purpose.
Look Who's Back In Court
Donold Judas Trump, in case you've been asleep for a couple of years. You may recall that he was found liable in a civil case back in May 2023, having a judgement of $5 million levied against him. As he does when losing, he threw his toys out of the pram and appealed, which has now come around to be heard in court. Art!
E Jean Carroll looking rather sharp
It's unlikely the verdict will be overturned, as judges tend to follow the book when dealing with Pumpkinhead in order to kill any grounds for appeal in the first place. Donold, who blamed his lawyers for losing the case in 2023 because they advised him not to turn up in court, sat and glowered for this hearing, before ranting and tanting afterwards - typical piehole-flappery that may come back to bite him on the bottom.
Why so?
Because EJC's lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, said that 'all options are on the table' when asked about filing a new defamation claim. We on the blog have speculated about this earlier this year.
Bring on more wheelie-bins of popcorn!
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