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Sunday, 21 April 2024

Saturday Snapshots #340: A Top Ten Caribbean Songs

Snapshots invites you to a Caribbean beach today, all expenses paid. I figured Barry Bloom and the Gibson Brothers would give this week's link away, but I had to avoid the really obvious songs...

Typically Tropical - Barbados 

The Beginning Of The End - Funky Nassau

Billy Ocean - Caribbean Queen 

(Although I'm fascinated by that last one, particularly the snazzy grey sweater that Billy wears in the video which appears to have a rip in the shoulder. Couldn't someone have bought him a new one for the shoot?)


10. Classical superhero meets Alex The Frozen Chimp in top gear.

Bach-Man! Alex Turner! Over-drive!

Bachman Turner Overdrive - Jamaica

Amazingly, that's the first time BTO has ever featured on Snapshots. But... you ain't seen nothin' yet!

9. Top of the Corner Shops.


The Kings Of Convenience - Cayman Islands

8. Flowery copper.



7. Badgers paint their homes for camouflage. 


Badgers live in setts. Badgers are black and white, so for camouflage they would live in...


6. The kids were just crass... with God-given ass.


Lyrics from Ziggy Stardust. The missing line is, of course, "he was the Nazz".


5. All the Bee Gees' kids were boys.


The Gibbs' sons were all brothers. (For the benefit of this clue, at least.)


4. Nice Guy, and he's loaded.


Nice Guy Eddie has lots of money.


3. Ache as I say twist.


Twist the letter in "ache as I say" to reveal...


2. Irony & carbony martial arts ranking. 



1. Found onboard golden yachts.

Found onboard golden yachts.

Enya - Caribbean Blue


Back to dull grey Blighty Snapshots next weekend... and it'll probably be raining.

Sunday, 8 November 2020

Saturday Snapshots #162 - The Answers

 


No, I couldn't find any pictures of Joe Biden holding a camera. Neither do I expect Joe Biden to be a truly great president. But at least he once worked with one (even if Obama didn't achieve everything he set out to do, he remained a decent figurehead throughout). 

The main thing Biden has in his favour is that he's Not Trump. In the same way I voted for Corbyn purely because was not Not Boris. Frankly, the Democrats could have put Tom Hanks & Michael Bolton on the ticket and I'd have voted for them instead of Trump. Just as Labour could field James Corden with Bono as deputy and I'd be putting my X in their box, no matter how detestable I find them both.  

I'll leave the final word today to Sam, aged 7, yet already an expert political analyst.

"I think Donald Trump is going to break all the ornaments in The White House 
so that when Joe Biden moves in, he's not got anything nice."

Here are this week's answers...

10. Half a piano... just like Andrew Gold.

A piano is made up of black and white keys.

Andrew Gold was a Lonely Boy.

The Black Keys - Lonely Boy

9. Wishing the week whisked away.

A whisk is used to make beating eggs easier.

Wishing the week away, you're thinking about Friday.

The Easybeats - Friday On My Mind

8. Early morning enclosure, thrice refused.

Early morning is dawn. An enclosure is a pen.

Dawn Penn - No, No, No

7. Expensive Eagle wants a lift this evening.

Eddie the Eagle costs lots of money.

Eddie Money - Take Me Home Tonight

Sadly, I don't think this Eddie will make it into next week's Top Ten Eddie Songs. So I thought I'd find room for him here. What a chorus!

6. Chubbier Scot makes a right turn... will you be mine?

A chubbier Scot would be Mc-Fatter.

Clyde McPhatter - A Lover's Question

5. Dark dancer mixed with problematic nun (plus alias)... what Blanche depended on. 

Courtney Cox became famous after being plucked from the audience to go Dancing In The Dark.

The problematic nun was Maria, alias Julie Andrews.

Blanche DuBois always depended on the kindness of strangers, in A Streetcar Named Desire.

Courtney Marie Andrews - The Kindness of Strangers

4. Eastwood & Elphick prefer milk in their coffee, nothing else.

Clint Eastwood + Michael 'Boon' Elphick like it white with no sugar.

The Clint Boon Experience - White With No Sugar

3. Improvement for Butch's shortened mum. 

Butch Cassidy's shortened mum with be Mama Cass.

Mama Cass - It's Getting Better

2. Not all ladies like it risqué. 

Some girls like it racey. Some girls don't. (C, apparently, didn't... at least not where these guys were concerned!)

Racey - Some Girls

1. Nurse snogs my sugar babe.


Nurse snogs was this week's only anagram!



More next week. As long as Trump doesn't have hissy fit. (I really hope Secret Service have hidden the football.)



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