August 2014 Botticelli

Thread Games
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Are you Linus Van Pelt from Peanuts?

382

I am not.

383

Waiting on etv, EH, and astorian…

384

I cede my DQ guess.

385

Sorry - forgot that my daughter was going to be leaving early this morning to spend the week with her aunt. Didn’t get a chance to get on here before work…

PP and KO have struck out, and etv has passed, but where’d EH and astorian disappear to?

So I guess it’s time to reveal that I am Capt Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce, MD, from Richard Hooker’s novel MASH***** and its sequels - and also, of course, from the movie and the TV series based on it.

  • Alternatively titled MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors.
386

Somebody stumped us with Winchester awhile back. (The Boston Brahmin Dr.)

387

Good one, SCA!

388

Sorry, didn’t get online today until just recently. Nice round, SCA!.

389

Thanks. I really didn’t expect to win that round. Presumably the movie and TV show are so much better known than the books that none of you thought of him as being a literary character…

I am now C.

390

For some reason I couldn’t remember that Hawkeye’s last name was Pierce. I was actually going to guess Sherman Potter, but realized he wouldn’t be in the book.

IQ1: Did you write The Hunt for Red October?
IQ2: Are you known for your collaborations with director John Woo in films like the The Killer?
IQ3: Are you the lead vocalist of rock bands Linkin Park and Dead by Sunrise?

391

IQ: Do you attempt to keep Dopers in line?
IQ2: Are you one of Dickens’ best known characters?
IQ3: Are you an illusionist who took your stage name from #2?

392

[I forgot about the M*A*S*H books, even though I’ve read three or four of them.]

IQs:

  1. Did you and your men kill all of a band of Texas Rangers… well, all but one?
  2. Are you the inspiration for #1?
  3. Did you play the surviving Texas Ranger?
393

Not Tom Clancy.
DQ.
DQ.

Not C K Dexter Haven.
Not David Copperfield.
Not David Copperfield.

(Too bad I wasn’t using your #3 - “No, I’m not David Copperfield, but I am David Copperfield.” :))

DQ.
DQ.
Not Clayton Moore.

394

Was going for Colibri.

DQ: Real?

395

Butch Cavendish (inspired by Butch Cassidy) led the Hole-In-The-Wall Gang that killed all the rangers except for Dan Reid, who then became the Lone Ranger (a fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust, and hearty… well, you know the rest). Correct on Clayton, of course.

DQs:

  1. Male?
  2. Last name starts with C?
396

IQs:

  1. Did you write Pinocchio?
  2. Did you voice Jiminy Cricket?
  3. Are you Geppetto’s goldfish?
397

My answer was valid (unless he is no longer a moderator). Therefore, no DQ.

C

  1. Female
  2. Last name starts with C
398

Three DQs, though I will no doubt kick myself for not remembering the author’s name.

399

1 is Carlo Collodi. 2 was Cliff Edwards. 3 is Cleo.

DQ: Real?

2 DQs reserved.

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C

  1. Female
  2. Last name starts with C
  3. Real