I hope you had the time of your life playing Saturday Snapshots yesterday. And that none of you ended up a Basket Case...
A Saturday night powercut means I'm setting this to post via my phone so can't add my usual commentary congratulating the winners. Just hoping this will still post on Sunday morning as planned. I'll try to add comments later on Sunday but thanks for playing as always.
Je t'aime is French for 'I love you'.
A tiny city full of serial killers would be a mini Ripper-town.
Minnie Riperton - Loving You
9. High ranking (southern) British martial artist and fishy western director request the pleasure of your company this evening.
The ranking system in many forms of martial arts is the Dan. Southern Britain would be England.
John Ford was a great director of Westerns. Coley is a fish.
Phew. Convoluted way to get to an undisputed easy listening classic.
England Dan & John Ford Coley - I'd Really Love To See You Tonight
8. My girl in Portugal is a honey.
"My girl" translated into Portuguese is "a minha menina".
Honey comes from bees.
The Bees - A Minha Menina
7. After a couple of weeks sightseeing, kick off your shoes and hit the sofa.
Explains itself.
The Tourists - So Good To Be Back Home Again
6. Half a gross of Cale hunting a red mermaid.
Half a gross is 72.
J.J. Cale.
The Hunt For Red October.
Mermaids swim.
JJ72 - October Swimmer
5. Bet you felt a proper one before that fall. Smooch one of your crimefighting ladies to help you feel better.
Pride goes before a fall.
If you're embarrassed, you might feel a proper Charley.
Charlie's Angels were crimefighters.
Charley Pride - Kiss An Angel Good Morning
4. Heroic cop loses his G-string across the channel.
Heroic is daring, minus a g = Darin. A cop is a Bobby.
Across the Channel is...
Bobby Darin - Beyond The Sea
3. Win a designer scullery!
A designer scullery would be a kitchen of distinction.
You win prizes.
Kitchens of Distinction - Prize
2. Take pride in your centrefolds with pierced bellybuttons.
Taking pride in yourself is self respect.
Centrefolds are often pierced through their bellybuttons by staples.
The Staple Singers - Respect Yourself
1. Part time docker and grainmaker has a laugh.
A docker is a stevedore. Part time would make him merely Steve.
A grainmaker would be a Miller.
Laughing is for Jokers.
Saturday Snapshots will be back next week. American Idiots and Geek Stink Breaths need not apply.
Another FAB quiz with some damned convoluted clues!
ReplyDeleteKnew ED & JFC as soon as I saw the picture (as I think you knew I would as they've featured over at my place quite a few times!) - The split second thought processes that led me to type in Hall & Oates are as follows: I had been up since 5.30am and was on a train heading to Edinburgh to see an exhibition (more of that to follow). Was thinking of the last "exhibition" I had visited - Scott of the Antarctic's ship Discovery, where I had read all about Captain Oates, another "high ranking" officer - Ended up thinking one thing and typing another. Funny how the brain works!
ReplyDeleteI was trying to work out how my clue might have led you to Hall & Oates. At least I can see some of your logic now. Look forward to reading about the exhibition.
DeleteAlways brilliant fun, just a shame you don't get to play it yourself sometimes!
ReplyDeleteThe thing is, I'd be rubbish at it, C. I can set the clues but I can't solve them!
DeleteAnyway, congratulations, your excellent piece of Holmesian deduction regarding the Bees meant that you were this week's winner.
C, I too feel bad that Rol can't actually play Saturday Snapshots but just haven't been able to come up with something of my own. Had a dabble with something called "The Wrong Trousers" but just didn't work (too much focus on the bottom half of the body) and tried to put together a Smiley Miley (Radio 1 Roadshow?) Bits & Pieces type thing with music clips but the laptop overheated.
DeleteYour "Whose Offspring?" quiz was great but a lot of work I imagine.
Anyway - thanks to Rol as ever.
Some people call me Maurice.
ReplyDeleteWheeet-whooo!
DeleteYou do speak of the pompatus of love though.
DeleteHad no idea Annie Lennox was in a group called the Tourists in the 70s. Thanks for bringing it to my attention
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