Biobes of Note
30 July, 2011
LEIGH SALES is a LEADING HOST AT LEAST, and a biobe to boot. That’s a verbal gewgaw where the person’s name is dispersed left to right in the person’s caption, just as ALI G is ADDLING (Nib), or a TENOR WITH MOJO – THROW PANTIES (SB) just has to be TOM JONES.
To pick the prime biobes, I ruled out those that carried one too many letters, like Peta’s AL GORE (FALLS TO GEORGE (from Peta) or duplicated words, like the PRS epiphany for THE BEATLES: THE BEAUT MELODIES. Fidelity was the other touchstone, since ANDY LEE is not a RANDY SLEAZE (one on my drawing board), though IVAN MILAT could say I’VE AN ABOMINABLE PAST (LR). Such rules of thumb opened the way to some brilliant biobes, with the best kept till last:
IAN BOTHAM – Giant bottom hams [RV leads the charge from the rear, if you follow my drift]
INDIRA GANDHI – Indian outrage at needless hit [Sobering and succinct work from SK]
WALT DISNEY – Was glaciated, insanely [Nib applies an ice-cool hand to history]
HEATH LEDGER – He’s a methylated goner [Vale, Heath, and kudos, One Wheel]
BANJO PATERSON – Bard enjoyed poetaster songs [A fine biobe, with a tricky J no less. Nib can be consoled to hear he went close to the podium with this guy.]
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Swilling malmsey, he makes up theatre [Impressive hit-out from RK, who dared to dream with a name of 18 letters….]
BING CROSBY: Being croons ably […and then made shorter work of the Bing.]
LARA BINGLE – Dollar-grabbing celeb [Speaking of Bada-Bings, please admire the Nibster at work once more.]
MARGARET OLLEY – Ms Art Great’s retro’s at the Gallery [Criseyde deserves a bronze medal alone for discovering that naughty mix of Margaret Olley: art gallery moll]
CHARLIE SHEEN – Charm, lies…the end [Exquisite work from SK that tells a tale from limelight to afterlife. He shares the silver…]
PHIL ANDERSON – Uphill land person […RV, who found a minor miracle in a Tour’s earlier Australian tourist.]
But I couldn’t ignore the technical genius, the topicality and the ha-ha cachet of LR’s SHANE WARNE [Shags new partner]. An obvious target, you may argue, but this biobe is brill and this week’s gold medal snagger. I’d even glanced at Warney in the early phases, and couldn’t see what LR found. It’s a tabloid knockout.
Thanks for the homages, the muck-raking, the punchlines: a dazzling biobic debut. New Tempest next week, after Trincolo’s final Tempest tonight.
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