Extended permanently
Do you know what Bovril is? I would imagine that a section of the audience do not. It’s “beef extract”, a bit like Marmite, you can make “beef tea” from it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMDmE5Hal_E
Unfortunately I can’t find an ad for the slimy spreadable semifluid version, only the granules, but you’ll get the idea.
“Fiendish and beefy” is my…
No, I can’t bring myself to finish that sentence. I’ll get my coat.
“Fiendish and Beefy” would also be a great Solver title.
Finally, the moment we’ve been waiting for- THE EXPLANATION FOR THE TITLE OF THE STORY!!!!
It’s Lottie’s Reichenbach moment!
But what exactly does “self-cancel” mean? Is Lottie expected to ruin her own reputation, or cut contact with everyone she knows? Or is this a more fatal instruction?
Yes!
(What exactly does it mean?)
If she thinks Lottie is even capable of “self canceling” then she’s a bigger fool than I imagined.
As a consumer of many a half-time cuppa at lower league games, can confirm that unless you deploy the proper technique of blowing on it and taking small sips, fresh bovril can and will burn straight through to the earth’s core.
I can only hope Lottie has a small plastic cup to contain this life-threatening spillage
I doubt that Bovril is hot, unless that video-player comes with a heater, but it probably jams up a card and ruins it quickly. (If you even touch those contacts with typically greasy fingers it’s all over for that card. But a short-circuit kills it completely.)
Aw man. Now she doesn’t have the spiffy digital picture frame any more.
It’s still good as evidence (but not nearly so spiffy.)
Too bad Lottie didn’t think to pull out her phone and grab a video of the picture frame in operation (with audio, of course).
You know what they say about hindsight, but she’s in her dressing-gown without phone.
See the wheelchair? She presumably used them to get Claire, Glenn, and Dean out of the room!
Makes sense.
It would still have been difficult to get them into those wheelchairs (especially Dean.)
Let’s hope Shauna and Linton followed Lottie and are ready to spring into action and prevent her forced self-destruction. The wheelchair could be a sign that they’re in some old hospital, or maybe it’s the wheelchair Evilottie used after her accident and they’re in her basement.
I also hope Lottie can get some help from Bitsy. The Dowager wasn’t born yesterday – she would surely have some tricks up her sleeve that would confound even Skelottie.
Bovril. It’s what’s for dinner.
I count five Lottie hands in the first panel. Sexy effigy (2), faux-tograph (1), and genuine article (2).
Two Lottie hands, three Nottie hands. And note that the effigy does NOT, in fact, have Lottie’s face (and Lottie’s face is the only part of Lottie Beate actually has).
Did Beate use Glom’s own zip ties on them? Fiendish!
Hoist upon their own Picard!
Y’know – they’re probably still in the building. Perhaps a disused sub-basement. Nobody involved has a van (I don’t think Evillottie would have risked a financial trail to rent one), so even if Beate never skipped upper-body-day, it seems too much to presume that she would have hauled Claire, Dean and Ygln anywhere distant AND be back to set things up.
Lottie! Keep an eye out for a disused lavatory with a “Beware the leopard!” sign on it!
She’s had all night, though, while Lottie was sleeping on the train, presuming they didn’t decide to start Scrabble™ night at midnight or something
It’s been a while since I’ve played, so I’m not sure how long 4 two-person games would have taken, so, perhaps, if they started at 8, it might have gone to 10? 11?
Mine’s a pint of the black stuff
You can’t drink a whole pint of Bovril…
My God. Bovril.
(For maximum impact, please read this comment in the voice of Kevin Conroy as the Bat-Like Man.)