Fred Austere

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Fear the...fear the temptation of the worm is a more, probably more, more appropriate, er, response for this particular scenario.

A manly vehicle, guaranteed to impress all the, er, ‘females’ before you rape them.
Bully, the madcot of UK Bullseye. It was a quiz show with some darts playing and the chance to win (usually) a caravan or a small speedboat. The winners of the aforementioned aquatic craft inevitably lived hundreds of miles from any open water. Hey ho.
Coal-gas powered car from WWII.
Kevin O’Neill’s work for Alan Moore’s ‘The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen’.
Herr Starr, Allfather of The Grail, earns some karma.
Who’s that fat bastard? Alexei Sayle looking…scary.
Young Leonid, lookin’ bushy.
Fathers Dougal, Ted and Jack. Something terrible is about to happen.
Broad Street station, London. At its peak it handled 27 million passengers every year.
Always good advice.
Wallace and Gromit, who know a thing or two about cheese.
A familiar face, thanks to Onion cartoonist Kelly.
HMS Glorious, after her conversion.
Aérotrain. Because France.
Vic and Bob, noting that you can’t give a baby booze. Unless it’s Babycham.
“Afrikakorps Soldier Prodding Unwilling Camel”, from Nurse With Wound’s second album.
A close-up of rice that has been shot from a gun* looking delicious and not at all like drugs. *Yes, really.
A classic Far Side cartoon, in which a woman observes their neighbours’ shiny new atomic weapon.
The UZGA LMS-901 Baikal. Too advanced for the Russians to build.
A mobile kebab vendor in Bristol, named ‘Jason Donervan’.
‘Kung-Fu Potato”. It’ll fill you up or beat you up.
I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine. And fetch me trews.
Hélas! Third time lucky.
Ankh-Morpork’s finest, CMOT Dibbler, discovers advertising.
Not a Mandalorian. Bet you Donnie’s a fan, though.
The great toffee insurgency of 1885 springs to mind.
Rock Ridge, 1874. And that’s ‘Hedley’.
A radio telescope image of pulsar CP 1919. Also the image used on the cover of Joy Division’s ‘Unknown Pleasures’.
The lovely Olympia, aka The Destroyer of Worlds.
A man named Soupy Sales who has decapitated a small animal. I just can’t with the other details.
Here Starr, a rogue Grail operative, whose sufferings and indignities were deserved.
“Terrifying Rabbit” brand poppadoms. I knew you’d look at the rabbit.
I have a Dymo and am not afraid to use it.
1978 called, with a shrinking staff and flying cloud.
Scott Tracy, looking realistic.
They’re plotting. Must be a day that ends in a ‘y’.
From ‘The Death of Stalin’. The usual suspects.
Olympia looking cute.
Fathers Ted and Dougal making sense.
P-51D “Ferocious Frankie”, s/n 44-73149 under restoration (or finished?) at Duxford, October 2014
Sometimes the teletype would melt at the film’s action sequences.
CPAC, 2021. The Golden Bullshitter.
Just a reminder.
“Percy, you look like a bird that’s swallowed a plate.” -Blackadder II
This small cat is judging you.
The real Ed Sheeran and an artist.
The Muppets’ Crazy Harry in action.
Clockwise from left: Astapp, Olympia and Alyssa, all looking cute.
‘How’re ye?’ Cassidy, presumably in search of a launderette.
If we could see politics, what would it look like? A cube, but with all its corners on the inside.
The name. Oh, the name. Something must be done!
Siân Phillips playing Livia, Augustus’ wife. Do not mess with Livia.
They’re lovely kitties.
A 1969 Nissan Skyline. Technically a saloon.
A packet of ‘Kittensoft’-brand toilet tissue. Aww, what a cute kitty! Pspspsps! Like a scritch? Awww!
Our friend Computer would like a word. A variation on the classic smoking boot image from the role-playing game‘Paranoia’.
Wallace and Gromit (on the right): a portrait of an inventor, entrepreneur and a scientific genius (the latter also on the right). Cracking!
An alien, recently. It appears to have descended from the early black-and-white Smash aliens. It is not currently consuming instant mashed potatoes.
Hermann Göring, a fat Nazi. Hail the master race!
Shrimp! RFWs*! Is this to distract us, destroy us or just great PR by Team Gojira (pictured above, looking a bit peckish)? *RADIOACTIVE FUCKING WASPS!