Showing posts with label Evelyn Champagne King. Show all posts
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Sunday, 2 October 2022

Snapshots #260: A Top Ten Shame Songs

This is Michael Fassbender, who once appeared in the movie Shame, in which he was addicted to sex. How preposterous is that? Now if he was addicted to Saturday Snapshots, that I could understand...


10. Obsessive-compulsive detectives.

I used to love Monk, the TV show starring Tony Shalhoub as an OCD detective.

The Monks - Nice Legs, Shame About The Face

Probably won't hear that on the radio these days.

9. Billie Jean is not a bubbly Brideshead Revisitor.

Evelyn Waugh wrote Brideshead Revisited.

Bubbly is Champagne.

Billie Jean King.

Evelyn "Champagne" King - Shame

8. Not fit for the major leagues.

"The Mendoza Line is baseball jargon for a sub-.200 batting average, the supposed minimum threshold for competence at the Major League level." As I'm sure all you baseball fans will know.

The Mendoza Line - The Triple Bill Of Shame

7. Roland takes more tea.

Roland Rat takes another T.

Ratt - Shame, Shame, Shame

6. Spencer, Geller, tastes like chicken.

Lady Diana Spencer gets with Ross Geller (from Friends, duh) and some Chicken Supreme.

Diana Ross & The Supremes - I'm Livin' In Shame

That is so good, it sends a shiver down my spine.

5. Derbyshire cigarettes.


4. Like O, in a forest.

Like The Big O, this is another Roy... Wood.

Roy Wood - Oh What A Shame

As I type out these answers on Thursday evening, I'm predicting John will get that one about 3 seconds after 8.30 on Saturday morning.

3. Yarn twisters, not Liverpudlian. 

Not The Spinners from Liverpool, but their namesakes...

The Detroit Spinners - It's A Shame

(I still have nightmares about the awful Monie Love version of that.)

2. Some like it hot above their shoulders.

Jack Lemmon was in Some Like It Hot, keeping his head held high.

The Lemonheads - It's A Shame About Ray

Always reminds me of good times, that one...

1. Otis fandom.

Anagram!

Fats Domino - Ain't That A Shame


It'll be a shame if you can't come back for more Snapshots next Saturday...


Sunday, 6 October 2019

Saturday Snapshots #104 - The Answers


Come with me if you want to live!

Or at least if you want the answers to yesterday's Saturday Snapshots...

Hasta la vista, baby!


10. Fiery gal comes of age.


A fiery gal might be a Burn-ette.


9. Norman painter gets paranoid.


Norman Rockwell was the painter.


8. A magnum crown... pity.


A magnum of champagne for a king?


7. Scooters make me itch.


Lambretta makes scooters.

Poison Ivy leaves you in need of an ocean of calamine lotion...


6. A mini roll gets chewed up by an air freshener.


"A mini roll" was an anagram.


5. "They told me to do it!" I explained to the junior Feds.


"They told me to do it!" Who? The voices in your head?


4. Directions to the French court maze, please?


Hampton Court Maze? FR is France, so that must make it the Frampton court maze? No? Non?


I don't mind a bit of Peter Frampton, but this sold far more copies than it should have done.

3. Party pooper DJ wouldn't play 50s hits... and his eyeliner stank.


"Eyeliner stank" was another anagram. (Just count yourself lucky I didn't have to do a third for Peter Frampton: Pope TNT Farmer was very close.)


2. Eager nobility wants to hear a song.


A keen earl?


1. Allied forces found on a zebra crossing.


There probably were more than seven nations in the allied forces, but I claim artistic license.


That's it from me for this week, but guess what? Next week? 

I'll be back.

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