Mixed Grill XVIII

The suffering never ends.

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Fender bender – Eddie Van Halen

Mourning becomes Alexa – Do you hear me now? Are you plugged in?

Satan doll – Rejected chant by Ellington, Strayhorn, Mercer, and Bondye

Funeral costs – The best things in death are very expensive

Buxteyehude – Danish Jewish composer of the 17^th Century

Money hop – Bottom line dance

Rembrandt van Rhine – Large-nosed Dutch artist

Bill book and candle – There's no such thing as a free candle

Rodeo drivel – Beverly Hills small talk

The last time I saw Paris – He was involved in some kind of dispute with Philoctetes

Finiculi, finicula – Can you top this?

The meaning of life – Philosophy yields to Python

Sailing over the bounding Maine – Now I remember

Redeemer – Religious issue or can it be solved at an S & H site?

Hip hop – Hopeless

Causus belli – Lite beer

Little scirocco how do you do? – No good. No good. No good. No good. ...

Strawberry fields forever – Christian ministers don't mostly deal with fly balls but there are some on the ground we won't hold that against him, but forever … ?

No, we don't have any bananas – Nor do we stereotype

Ages of rock – From the 1950s on

Words are the small change of thought (Jules Renard) – I have no idea what this means but it seemed very erudite when I saw it.

Joy Børge (Rosenbaum) – Victor not victorious in Culture Club. There's no piano

The Velvet Frog – Kemit

Trump – Current possessor of the bully pulpit

He said, she said – Marriage counseling for fun and profit

Meltdown – Severe problem in Pennsylvania. No, not Three-Mile Island, Hershey.

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More to come.