Sunday, 20 December 2020

Saturday Snapshots #168 - The Answers

  

Supreme answers to follow...

10. Burn the mad planet: legendary king or loveable loser?

Arthur was a legendary king, Charlie Brown a loveable loser.

The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Fire

9. Redneck kiddies in a neverending convoy.

"Redneck kiddies" is an anagram.

Eddie Kendricks - Keep On Truckin' (Part 1)

8. Sounds like Tom's hairdresser girl, in very basic attire.

Tom's hairdresser would be Delilah (look what she did to Samson!)

Plain White T's - Hey There, Delilah

7. Shades of talcum, nearly.

"Talcum, nearly" is an anagram.

Shades are sunglasses.

Tracey Ullman - Sunglasses

6. Making suits for the California Highway Patrol leaves him flawlessly misanthropic. 

Someone who made suits for the California Highway Patrol would be a CHiP tailor.

Chip Taylor - Fuck All The Perfect People

5. Depressed ecstasy on silky switchboard.

Depressed Ecstacy? Sad E!

Sade - Smooth Operator

4. Ah, grinned KGB, on US quiz show.

"Ah, grinned KGB" is another anagram.

The Greg Kihn Band - Jeopardy

3. Shaft at the beginning of next Friday leads to nefarious pastime. 

Shaft was Isaac Hayes. The beginning of next Friday is Christmas Day.

Chris Isaak - Wicked Game

2. Millennial hipster does V origami in the cellar. (That clue will probably only work for regular readers of this blog.)


Regular readers will know of my millennial hipster friend Ben (of whom, more next year).

Origami involves folding paper. V is 5.

This was slightly more difficult than it should have been as Ben is the one on the right, not in the middle.


1. Chic, young, call waiting.


Chic Young was the creator of the comic strip Blondie.

Not the most dignified picture, but you try finding a photo of Debbie Harry that doesn't immediately look like Debbie Harry.


Next week may well be the last Saturday Snapshots... in its current format, anyway.



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6 comments:

  1. FurryBootsCityBoy20 December 2020 at 11:22

    Thank you for another great Saturday Snapshots - and all the best to you and yours for Christmas and the New Year. As someone once said: "Let’s hope it’s a good one, Without any fear". Never was a song lyric more apt.

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  2. C20 December 2020 at 17:46

    Thanks as always for jogging my brain into action on a Saturday morning. Grateful for anything you do like this next year, different format or not, but appreciate the huge amount of work involved so of course no pressure (we've been spoilt!)

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    1. Rol20 December 2020 at 18:55

      It's not the work, C, I enjoy it. But after 168 weeks, I'm starting to run out of artists I haven't featured before. So I'm going to try something a little different in the New Year; we'll see how it goes.

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    2. C20 December 2020 at 19:06

      Blimey, 168 weeks! No wonder you're starting to run out of artists... Look forward to whatever you have up your sleeve.

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    3. C20 December 2020 at 19:08

      (Yes I should have realised from the clue in the title: #168)

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  3. Brian22 December 2020 at 01:09

    The usual suspects have been too good for our household to get involved the last couple of Saturdays. Perhaps we need you to make the clues more difficult in its new incarnation. Kidding. I’m sure we all agree they are just right.

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