# Botticelli 2009! **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 8, 2009, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311 "2009-01-08T00:42:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/261 "2009-01-12T08:59:22Z")
I am of course, referring to the Pink Panther 🙂 DQ: Did you use to be a political leader? And a defender doesn’t score a lot of goals 😛 So I’ll rephrase my question: Are you a South American striker who used to score a lot of goals in the Bundesliga but has since moved on to the Premier League? Are you a Frenchman who said: “All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone”? ---
**Author:** ![seodoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@seodoa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seodoa)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/262 "2009-01-12T11:46:48Z")
> [@WormTheRed](#): > > I am of course, referring to the Pink Panther 🙂 > > DQ: Did you use to be a political leader? > And a defender doesn’t score a lot of goals 😛 So I’ll rephrase my question: > Are you a South American striker who used to score a lot of goals in the Bundesliga but has since moved on to the Premier League? > > Are you a Frenchman who said: “All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone”? What makes the Pink Panther “undefined?” :dubious: To answer your DQ: Yes, I was once a political leader. No, I am not Claudio Pizarro. Nor am I Blaise Pascal. 🙂 To recap: I was a political leader. I am not an artist. I am not alive. I am male. I am not fictional. ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/263 "2009-01-12T12:06:50Z")
Have you ever seen a pink panther in nature? Hence it’s undefined which kind of panther he is 😃 Ok, I’ll give you that it wasn’t very well put. So I won’t ask a dq. Did you have to choose between pardoning two people, and ended up pardoning the murderer? ---
**Author:** ![seodoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@seodoa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seodoa)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/264 "2009-01-12T12:10:35Z")
> [@WormTheRed](#): > > Have you ever seen a pink panther in nature? Hence it’s undefined which kind of panther he is 😃 > > Ok, I’ll give you that it wasn’t very well put. So I won’t ask a dq. > > Did you have to choose between pardoning two people, and ended up pardoning the murderer? You already asked a DQ for it and I answered, I’m not worried about it. 🙂 However, I am not Pontius Pilate. ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/265 "2009-01-12T12:18:41Z")
Well, :smack:, I guess I did. Are you the step son of a Premier League legend, who also plays there? ---
**Author:** ![seodoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@seodoa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seodoa)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/266 "2009-01-12T12:26:40Z")
> [@WormTheRed](#): > > Well, :smack:, I guess I did. > > Are you the step son of a Premier League legend, who also plays there? I am not Shaun Wright-Phillips? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/267 "2009-01-12T12:41:30Z")
Correctamundo, he’s the step son of [Ian Wright.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Wright). But since I’m on such a footballing run (don’t ya love it 😉 ): Are you the first goalie who ever got a red card in a World Cup match? ---
**Author:** ![seodoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@seodoa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seodoa)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/268 "2009-01-12T13:12:24Z")
> [@WormTheRed](#): > > Correctamundo, he’s the step son of [Ian Wright.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Wright). > > But since I’m on such a footballing run (don’t ya love it 😉 ): > > Are you the first goalie who ever got a red card in a World Cup match? I’m done Googling your football stats. Deliberately exploiting a chooser’s weakness is horrible form and you should be _ashamed._ [/finger wagging] 😛 Have a DQ, you illegitimate son of a viking. :mad: 😉 ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/269 "2009-01-12T13:17:47Z")
Gianluca Pagliuca got sent off for handballing the ball outside the penalty area in Italy’s game against Norway in the World Cup played in the USA in -94. And what about you guys tormenting me with artists and painters in the last run 😛 Ok, dq: Are you of European descent? ---
**Author:** ![seodoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@seodoa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seodoa)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/270 "2009-01-12T13:31:26Z")
> [@WormTheRed](#): > > Gianluca Pagliuca got sent off for handballing the ball outside the penalty area in Italy’s game against Norway in the World Cup played in the USA in -94. > > And what about you guys tormenting me with artists and painters in the last run 😛 > > Ok, dq: Are you of European descent? In 1994 I was more interested in the latest Sega Genesis game than in the World Cup, sorry. Granted, even now I’m not much for watching sports, playing them is a million times more satisfying. 😃 But not soccer. I suck at soccer and I don’t have enough friends who like to play it to have any hope of ever getting any better. ☹ All of my friends in both the US and Japan have been more into baseball and/or basketball. I am not of European descent. I was a political leader. I am not an artist. I am not alive. I am male. I am not fictional. ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/271 "2009-01-12T13:41:51Z")
I’ve never been very good at basketball (guess I can’t jump), but we play a sorta baseball over here which can be pretty fun at times. Especially when combined with chugging a beer at every base 🙂 But enough fooling about; time to get serious 😃 Did you have fake villages named after you? Did you move your capital while being a local lord of a place that now has been united into a nation? (eh, yeah, that makes sense) Did you assist your master in fighting windmills? ---
**Author:** ![seodoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@seodoa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seodoa)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/272 "2009-01-12T14:03:40Z")
> [@WormTheRed](#): > > Did you have fake villages named after you? > > Did you move your capital while being a local lord of a place that now has been united into a nation? (eh, yeah, that makes sense) > > Did you assist your master in fighting windmills? I am not Potemkin. Ummmm, no? Only P ruler who moved his capital that I know is Peter the Great. But he wasn’t a local lord. Have another DQ. I am not Sancho Panza. ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/273 "2009-01-12T14:11:17Z")
Emperor [Pan Geng](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Geng) moved his capital to Yin; he was a local lord in what had yet to become China. DQ: Are you Asian? IQ: Did you build your nations first organized fleet in not one, not two, but three different seas? ---
**Author:** ![seodoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@seodoa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seodoa)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/274 "2009-01-12T14:38:43Z")
> [@WormTheRed](#): > > Emperor [Pan Geng](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Geng) moved his capital to Yin; he was a local lord in what had yet to become China. > > DQ: Are you Asian? > > IQ: Did you build your nations first organized fleet in not one, not two, but three different seas? DQ: Yes, I am Asian. I am going to stab in the dark and say Peter the Great again? They did have plenty of seas to build in. If I’m wrong, feel free to a DQ. ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/275 "2009-01-12T14:44:33Z")
Yeah, Peter the Great built Russias first fleet in the Black Sea to fight the Ottomans, the first in the Arctic Ocean, for the heck of it\*, and in the Baltic, to fight the Swedes. He really liked ships. \*or to be able to send traders to Europe without the hassle of the Danes and the Swedes ---
**Author:** ![seodoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@seodoa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seodoa)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/276 "2009-01-12T14:47:48Z")
> [@WormTheRed](#): > > Yeah, Peter the Great built Russias first fleet in the Black Sea to fight the Ottomans, the first in the Arctic Ocean, for the heck of it\*, and in the Baltic, to fight the Swedes. I knew he built in the Baltic and Black Seas, didn’t know he had built in the Arctic, too. Groovy. ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/277 "2009-01-12T15:03:30Z")
He was a very groovy guy! But as he isn’t who you’re asking about he sucks at the moment :mad: Well, did you give your people a constitution, turning yourself into a half-figurehead? ---
**Author:** ![seodoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@seodoa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seodoa)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/278 "2009-01-12T15:21:30Z")
> [@WormTheRed](#): > > He was a very groovy guy! But as he isn’t who you’re asking about he sucks at the moment :mad: > > Well, did you give your people a constitution, turning yourself into a half-figurehead? I am not John I of the House of Plantagenet, signer of the Magna Carta? I hesitate to say that because the Magna Carta only limited the King’s powers in theory. In practice it really did not make a huge difference. ---
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/279 "2009-01-12T15:26:12Z")
Well then, are you an Asian King who was forced to give his people a constitution? Still, the Magna Carta, gave the people a piece of paper to back them up. The King couldn’t do whatever he felt like anymore. ---
**Author:** ![seodoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@seodoa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seodoa)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311/280 "2009-01-12T15:40:29Z")
Ohhh, you mean Prajadhipok. No, I’m not him. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-2009/480311.md?page=15)