mc5 - King AVMA the III

A phrase or saying?

Tuj

Is it a geographic location?

Is it a mythical thing?

The massed choirs of the Mothers' Union will now sing the shipping forecast to the tune of "Deutschland über alles".

[Rosie] No. Please pay attention.
[Simons Mith] Not a phrase, saying, meme, idiom, slang expression or quotation, except insofar as any arrangement of words as the AOTC be a phrase, saying, etc.
[Tuj] Not geographical. Some of the audience shows signs of appreciation.
[Raak] That's a miss.

The wilderness?

A hill-top?

Superconductivity?

North Utsire, South Utsire...

[Simons Mith], [Rosie] - not IN THE SLIGHTEST geographical.
[Raak] On the scale of perfect insulation to superconductivity, the AOTC is not to be found.

CdM

Found on Earth?

Heavy metal?

Dogger, Cromarty and Forth...

[CdM] Yes. <>[Simons Mith] If you really want to pursue the mineral side, then yes, there is a reference to metal, though not music.

Dogger, Cromarty and Forth...

[CdM] Yes.
[Simons Mith] If you really want to pursue the mineral side, then yes, there is a reference to metal, though not music.

A cloud's silver lining?

A pot of gold?

North-west backing slowly, showers,

[Simons Mith] No. Not meteorological either.
[Raak] No. No P's, remember.
Hint: The metal is not explicit in the AOTC. It's sort of inferred.

CdM

Is the sort of inferred metal ferrous?

Chalky

Is it a CGI generated character?

Nine hundred and ninety, good.

[CdM] Yes - may contain traces of brass or white metal, but it's largely iron and steel.
[Chalky] No CGI.

Cold steel?

They don’t like it up ‘em.

To do with emotions or temperament?

German Bight and Tyne and Fisher

[Raak] Cold if not working, otherwise quite hot.
[Simons Mith] Some people no doubt get turned on by the AOTC, but it isn't anything to do with emotions.

Striking while the iron is hot?

Force eight, cyclonic, raining, poor.

[Raak] No. (The iron does form a machine of a specific type.)

Tuj

Is it hypothetical?

By which I mean something like a thought experiment or philosophical concept

But Forties, with all the oil rigs

[Tuj] No.

Chalky

Any connection to music?

Boolbar

Would people have known about this in the year 1900?

Is it an abstract collection of machines, such as, oh, a steam fair or a tank regiment?

Projoy

Anything to do with the arts?

A nice day is fairly sure.

[Chalky] No.
[Boolbar] Yes.
[Simons Mith] A collection of machines is implied.
[Projoy] There is a connection to the arts (or one of them).

Boolbar

Any connection to printing?

The telegraph?

Wasn't that something, give them a big hand.

[Boolbar] No printing.
[Simons Mith] Not telegraph, in fact not any sort of media.

Are these metal doohickeys, whatever they are, Preserved for the Nation or otherwise protected?

And now over to the Open Newt-fishing Championships at Rutland Water.

[Simons Mith] No, they are in use. There are a few in museums.

Rosie

A collection of old steam engines?

Had to get that in

With only the ripple of the water and the occasional twig snapped by the camouflaged men and women engaged in this ancestral sport, one can hear the peeps and squawks of the unsuspecting newts.

[Rosie] The metal objects ARE steam engines, at least some of them are. The two remaining audience members offer polite applause. Now what is the abstract thing associated with this discovery?

Rosie

Does the abstract thing apply equally to those members of the AOTC that are not steam engines?

Theromdynamics?