Saturday Snapshots #109 - The Answers

Nananana nananana nananana nananana... Answers!

10. Jimmy Nail loses a dollar to Elvis's bear on the lawn. And it all goes dark.

Jimmy Nail was Spender. Removed a $ and you get Pender... on the lawn makes Pender-grass.

Elvis sang Teddy Bear.

Teddy Pendergrass - Turn Off The Lights

Rub me down with some hot oils, babe...

9. A minor, candy coloured clown.

"A minor" is a chord.

The suffix "ette" means "relatively small size"... which would also related to a minor.

Roy Orbison sang about a candy coloured clown they call the Sandman who tiptoes to his room each night.

The Chordettes - Mr. Sandman

8. Elf with midlife gender change? That's preposterous!

Elf changes from L(ady) to M(an)? Unbelievable!

EMF - Unbelievable

7. Lost? Trust the window screen.

A window screen would be a blind.

Blind Faith - Can't Find My Way Home

6. Octogenarians die laughing.

Killing Joke - Eighties

5. The week starts early in central Venice.

Rialto is in central Venice.

Rialto - Monday Morning, 5.19

4. Occasionally breaking the Hammer rule, Benny's kung fu rating.

Benny Hill.

Dan is the ranking system used in martial arts.

MC Hammer said U Can't Touch This.

Dan Hill - Sometimes When We Touch

There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure.

3. No, it's Britain. For the time being, anyway. I'd avoid web & eat nymphet.

I'd avoid web & eat nymphet are anagrams.

David Bowie & The Pat Metheny Group - This Is Not America

(I loved Chris's idea that "I'd avoid web" suggested this wasn't from Spiders-era Bowie. I wish I could claim to have been smart enough to come up with that myself.)

2. Dick & Spencer - 2 blokes in a Lambo.

Dick & Spencer Tracy are 2 blokes - a chap and a man.

A Lambo goes very fast.

Tracy Chapman - Fast Car

1. Les quits top pop band after catching his reflection in the Gents.

If Les quit The Beatles, all you'd have left is The Beat.



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