Welcome back to the quiz that's always the Bridesmaid, never the bride. Still, I hope you all Wiigured out this week's answers... and there were no Cheetahs.
10. First swinging king lacks staple diet.
King Louis was the king of the swingers in The Jungle Book, and this was his voice. King Louis was also an orangutan whose staple diet would be bananas...
Prima would be the first.
Louis Prima - Yes, We Have No Bananas
9. Hellish tippers, 24 hours later.
"Hellish tippers" was an anagram.
Kayleigh's bloke was Fish.
7. Wait! The Real Thing can't spell Charlie Brown's pal.
The real thing is the real McCoy.
Charlie Brown's pal was Snoopy.
6. Throwing homework on the fire long before Morrissey... this lady has a unique way of walking.
Long before Sheila Take A Bow, in which Morrissey entreated us to throw your homework onto the fire, David Bowie gave a similar exhortation in Kooks...
And if the homework brings you down
Then we'll throw it on the fire
And take the car downtown
5. A B C D F J K M N O P Q S U V W X Y Z.
(That may be my favourite clue in the history of Saturday Snapshots.)
What's MISSING from the alphabet above? The letters E G H I L R and T. And if you mix those around a bit, you get THE GIRL.
4. Pardon self-inflicted wounds in Scotch toun.
Note how I said Scotch toun, not Scottish?
3. The Farun Ningily takes an elevator to the meaning of life.
Wondering what a Famrun Ningily is? It's Running in the middle of Family. FAM-RUNNING-ILY.
42 was the meaning of life, the universe and everything.
2. Unhurried hearsay.
1. Candid landscape painter has not lost his faith.
Turner was a landscape painter, to be frank.
I Still Believe Saturday Snapshots will be back next week...
Kudos for the Everything But The Girl clue - even better that I first thought.
ReplyDeleteLove the little intro paragraphs you write to complement the picture at the top. Very funny this one.
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