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June 04 2011

Fun Rerun [BB313]

imagesCAAEJV5O Treat yourself to an early Birdbrain this weekend – my way of saying I’ll be posting the Storm results a little later. (Am up in Sydney for a few days, mostly unwired.) Anyway, so what’s the deal with these twelve clues…?

Let me explain. Twelve British sitcoms, both past and present, have been paraphrased. Blokes Skylarking, say, is Men Behaving Badly. Please cordially identify the others.

And why not paraphrase some other TV shows in the forum? Pick the better known, just to give us all a shot. And see if we can’t unmask the lot.

1 Pa Bear
2 Oatmeal
3 Thoroughly Sublime
4 Jan 31 Rose?
5 Dark Summer?
6 Embarrassed Shrimp
7 Omit Ex-Ass
8 Roger, Rev
9 Available 24/7
10 ’i ’I
11 Children?
12 Sircle?

SOLUTION NEXT WEEK
BB312 SOLUTION: Sergeant Lewis, Daniel Day-Lewis, CS Lewis, Lewis Carroll, Jerry Lewis, Wally Lewis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Lewis Hamilton, Carl Lewis, Essington Lewis, Dylan Lewis, Huey Lewis, Hayley Lewis

Comments

Anthony Douglas — 04 June at 07:19AM

1 Father Ted
2 Porridge, or a stint in jail

6 Should be George and Mildred, but he did't have the grace to be embarrassed!

DC — 04 June at 08:47AM

5. B
8. Y
9. O
10. E

Mauve — 04 June at 09:35AM

3. AF
7. DTDD

Mauve — 04 June at 09:37AM

4: LOTSW
6: RD

Mauve — 04 June at 09:41AM

11: TYO
12: EDC

dg — 04 June at 01:38PM

13. "That's funny. Hug." ?
14. Floored jumbos?
15. Getting It On
16. Young keeps
17. RSL?
18. Bible slogan
19. Brain words?
20. Do not 'boo, hiss' them

RK — 04 June at 07:58PM

15. Coupling
18. Love Thy Neighbour
19. Mind Your Language

RM formerly known as Rupert — 05 June at 11:57AM

4 isn't fair. Jan 31 is still winter in Heckmondwike ;)

JPR — 05 June at 06:33PM

btw, Pantaloon is penultimate of the 7 according to my AYLI

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