# Almost Famous People **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [March 20, 2016, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-famous-people/749708 "2016-03-20T22:52:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-famous-people/749708/41 "2016-03-23T23:53:06Z")
1. If you can extract something valuable from it, I invented it. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-famous-people/749708/42 "2016-03-24T00:03:17Z")
1. I play versatile cultural roles, primarily for the horses and pigs. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-famous-people/749708/43 "2016-03-24T00:06:50Z")
1. I am a friend to post-impressionists everywhere. 2. I should wear a Bill the Cat shirt when I golf. 3. Don’t know why I built that huge boat. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-famous-people/749708/44 "2016-03-24T00:19:26Z")
1. I am an overeater who never tells a lie: Gorge Washington 2. I am a nonchalant wagerer: Blase Pascal 3. I am a highly caffeinated genius: Alert Einstein 4. I am a fan of 6 packs and 5 spots: Ab Lincoln 5. I am a damp scion of Hollywood royalty: Dew Barrymore **6. I prove sharks can be excellent at standardized tests.** 1. I am a startled German composer: JS Ach! **8. I am a skier with my own mountain.** 1. I’m a cowboy whose career is on the decline: John Wane 2. I switched transit modes once my Drive ended: Ran Gosling 3. You could have served me in the summer of 1969 with raisins: Bran Adams 4. You may have seen me in the movies or at Caesars: Jack Palace 5. When I tell people that I was voted the sexiest man alive, they think I’m crazy: George Looney 6. You might find me beautiful if I cover my bald spot: Kristen Wig **15. I’ll be there for you, and I’m really, really strong.** **16. My rap music may be a bit on the dark side.** 1. I’m a rapper but I should sing a Thompson Twins song: Dr. Dr 2. I love to collect too many things, especially controversy: Hoard Stern **19. I was a great tennis player until that dramatic explosion.** 1. My fried chicken is really made from rubber duckie: Ernie Sanders 2. I really really really really really really really love glam rock: Avid Bowie 3. I bring art to the conjunction junction: And Warhol **23. I’m awfully good looking, especially when I glow in the dark.** 1. I might trade my shield for some places down by the river: Chris Vans **25. My capris always have a spot on them.** 1. I’ve starred in lots of movies, ironically never as an astronaut, but what most people don’t know is that I can run real fast: Kevin Pacey 2. I hate them damn rebels… Hate them. Hate them. HATE THEM. SO MUCH!: Ulysses Rant **28. I’m quite diminutive, but I am still at this location, over there, and everywhere.** **29. We’ll get you to the other side, but unconventionally.** **30. If you can extract something valuable from it, I invented it.** **31. I play versatile cultural roles, primarily for the horses and pigs.** **32. I am a friend to post-impressionists everywhere.** **33. I should wear a Bill the Cat shirt when I golf.** **34. Don’t know why I built that huge boat.** I think I’ve bolded the unsolved ones and put the answers to the correctly guessed ones. Apologies for any errors. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-famous-people/749708/45 "2016-03-24T00:24:29Z")
> [@Asimovian](#): > > 1. If you can extract something valuable from it, I invented it. Al Ore? ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-famous-people/749708/46 "2016-03-24T00:24:53Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > Al Ore? Bingo. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-famous-people/749708/47 "2016-03-24T00:27:24Z")
1. My pretty blue eyes water if I sniff myself. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-famous-people/749708/48 "2016-03-24T00:27:59Z")
1. When it comes to diamonds, I always blow out the competition. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-famous-people/749708/49 "2016-03-24T00:29:08Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > 1. My pretty blue eyes water if I sniff myself. Rank Sinatra…good god. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-famous-people/749708/50 "2016-03-24T00:42:30Z")
1. I’m known for dancing privately, but my moves are often recycled. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-famous-people/749708/51 "2016-03-24T00:46:28Z")
> [@Asimovian](#): > > 1. I’m known for dancing privately, but my moves are often recycled. Tin Turner? ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-famous-people/749708/52 "2016-03-24T00:48:56Z")
**16. My rap music may be a bit on the dark side.** Will Sith! HA! ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-famous-people/749708/53 "2016-03-24T00:51:53Z")
1. I should star in “Cardigans for Communists.” ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-famous-people/749708/54 "2016-03-24T00:57:14Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > 1. Don’t know why I built that huge boat.\*\* Noah Jones! ---
**Author:** ![Thin\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Thin\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thin_Ice)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-famous-people/749708/55 "2016-03-24T02:03:02Z")
1. I am a friend to post-impressionists everywhere. - Pal Gauguin ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-famous-people/749708/56 "2016-03-24T02:23:30Z")
1. Taking an undefeated all the way to the championship makes me want to dance around in a grass skirt. 2. Appropriately, singing “Black Dog” makes me hot and tired. 3. I like to shake off, shake off all the impurities in my flour. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-famous-people/749708/57 "2016-03-24T02:26:10Z")
1. I like to shake off, shake off all the impurities in my flour. - Taylor Sift ---
**Author:** ![Thin\_Ice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@Thin\_Ice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thin_Ice)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-famous-people/749708/58 "2016-03-24T12:02:05Z")
1. Taking an undefeated all the way to the championship makes me want to dance around in a grass skirt. - Don Hula ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-famous-people/749708/59 "2016-03-24T12:31:38Z")
> [@Thin\_Ice](#): > > 1. I am a friend to post-impressionists everywhere. - Pal Gauguin There were two correct answers. I would have accepted Pal Cezanne as well. (In fact, Cezanne was the one I originally thought of.) ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2016, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-famous-people/749708/60 "2016-03-24T15:26:41Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > 1. Appropriately, singing “Black Dog” makes me hot and tired. Robert Pant. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-famous-people/749708.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/almost-famous-people/749708.md?page=4)