Here’s this week’s devilishly fiendish Round Blogworld Quiz question (see the previous ones and their solutions here). As usual, find the link between these cryptic clues. A point for each item you get, and an imaginary cream bun of regal proportions if you get them all. If you get the link straight off, please don’t give it away too early!
What connects a man in a white suit to: a dog’s leg, Dabbler Soup and Heinz baked beans, and, finally, a free run?
Clues will be given as necessary, and the solution will appear later.
man in a white suit – Martin Bell, or Alec Guiness? Hmm could even be the stig!
dabbler soup and baked beans are both in tins
”A free run” – is that this parkour business?
you’re on to something there, Worm.
does Guinness come in cans too.
if you get a free run it means you don’t have a duck. if you don’t have a duck it must be a drake. drake was the name of the mad-man who coined the slogan, beanz meanz heinz. the man from del monte wore a white suit. he say, yes!
Or, in this instance, no. Good try though Ian!
oh dear..
the suit used in The Man in the White Suit was actually yellow because, for black and white film, white appears grey. Baked beans aren’t baked but stewed. The Dabbler soup is written by professional foodies, it was really a dog’s leg used in the scenes where Skippy opens the kitchen door, and a free run isn’t final.
I’ve no idea on this one.
I thought someone might get this straight away. It’s really obvious when you’ve got it.
hmm….nope!
You were right about Dabbler Soup and Heinz.
It’s a lateral one, this.
Tintin?
Correct!
A free run in cricket is a bye? Dog’s leg is a paw?
I can see a sort of pattern.
ahhhhhh
free run is just holding me up
oh, jonathan said it already! d’oh!
no one else going to jump in??
It’s all beyond me, Worm. But, Martin Bell, the great war correspondent, who embraced the concept of political virginity to the 57th degree (a measure developed by Heinz Wolff, the outstanding scientist and windbag) and portrayed it to the world by symbolically wearing the same white suit for five years without once bothering Johnsons the Cleaners. In that time, the suit was regularly filthied by dogs cocking their legs against him, messy eating habits picked up in the strife of Sarajevo, where he dabbled with instant soup made in an empty baked bean can, and most notably by throwing himself in the mud of Knutsford Heath as Christine Hamilton attacked him with viciously inflated brown paper bags marked ‘ill-gotten-gains’. Hubby Neil looked on nervously, fearful of being hit by friendly fire, as Christine went for the kill with the words “You won’t get a free run out of us you………………………….
That’s got to be worth some sort of sticky bun…
where is professor Heinz Wolff now I wonder?