Botticelli, April 2014

Thread Games
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Rudyard Kipling, in the poem “Soldier an’ Sailor Too.”
Alvin “Creepy” Karpis was a member of Ma Barker’s gang
Emmett Kelly, the clown, at the Hartford Circus Fire in 1944.
Thinking…

62

IQ: Did you feel the earth move under your feet or the sky come tumbling down?

63

No, I’m not Carole King.

64

Dang, I was sure you were Carole King.

IQ: Did you hang out with pips?

65

I am not Gladys Knight.

66

Previous IQs:

Were you a foe of Buck Rogers? - Close enough; it was Killer Kane.
Are you mocked by coworkers for your allegedly giant hands? - Lana Kane, on the very funny animated spy spoof Archer.
Did you write your best-known work on a very, very long piece of paper? - That’s how Jack Kerouac typed On the Road: Original manuscript of Jack Kerouac's On the Road to be exhibited in London.

DQs:

A hip hop or R&B artist?
Biggest hit since 2000?

IQs:

Are you a former member of Destiny’s Child?
Did you get an important award your boss resented you for winning?
Did you kill young prisoners, and thus get yourself executed?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. American
  3. Living
  4. Last name starts with K
  5. Born after 1950
  6. Female
  7. Born east of the Mississippi
  8. Involved in the creative arts (assuming this includes the performing arts)
  9. Born before 1975
  10. Born north of the Mason-Dixon line
  11. Not an actress
  12. Has won more than one top award in her field: multiple Grammys.
  13. Singer
  14. Not a Visual Artist (by which I mean not a painter, sculptor, printmaker, fashion designer, graphic artist), though she has often perform on stage to an audience
  15. Not best known for Rock & Roll (but I had to check some definitions to be sure)
  16. R& B artist (well, offshoot of R&B)
  17. Biggest hits in the 1970s and 1980s.

I’m giving extra info because I’ll be heading to a SciFi/Fantasy convention in Louisville, KY tomorrow morning and will be gone until Monday, so I’m hoping to wrap this one up today.

68

I’m not Kelly Rowland. Take 2 DQs for the others.
Note: Buck Rogers’s foe was named Coe “Killer” Kane.

69

Never heard “Killer” Kane’s first name before; thanks.

Previous IQs:

Are you a former member of Destiny’s Child? - I’ll rephrase.
Did you get an important award your boss resented you for winning? - Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize for his Vietnam War negotiations; Richard Nixon really wanted it.
Did you kill young prisoners, and thus get yourself executed? - Lord Karstark, in Game of Thrones.

DQ:

Black?

One DQ reserved.

IQs:

Are you a former member of Destiny’s Child who’s not Kelly Rowland?
Did a literary critic say your autobiography was only accidentally truthful?

70

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. American
  3. Living
  4. Last name starts with K
  5. Born after 1950
  6. Female
  7. Born east of the Mississippi
  8. Involved in the creative arts (assuming this includes the performing arts)
  9. Born before 1975
  10. Born north of the Mason-Dixon line
  11. Not an actress
  12. Has won more than one top award in her field: multiple Grammys.
  13. Singer
  14. Not a Visual Artist (by which I mean not a painter, sculptor, printmaker, fashion designer, graphic artist), though she has often perform on stage to an audience
  15. Not best known for Rock & Roll (but I had to check some definitions to be sure)
  16. R& B artist (well, offshoot of R&B)
  17. Biggest hits in the 1970s and 1980s.
  18. Black
71

I am not Beyonce Knowles.
Take another DQ for the second one.

72

That was Nikita Khruschev.

Two DQs reserved.

Hmm. A living black female American singer, biggest hits in the Seventies and Eighties, born in the northeast after 1950, last name starts with K, but not Gladys Knight. Everyone I’m thinking of (Eartha Kitt, for instance) is older than that, or dead.

73

I am sorry to inform you that the greatly talented Ms. Kitt passed away on Christmas Day in 2008.

74

Hence my use of the phrase “or dead.”

75

IQ: Did you make your own kind of music? Did you sing your own special song?

76

I equate that song with Mama Cass Elliott, so take a DQ.

77

I relinquish my DQ upon learning that Mama Cass is not Mama Kass.

78

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. American
  3. Living
  4. Last name starts with K
  5. Born after 1950
  6. Female
  7. Born east of the Mississippi
  8. Involved in the creative arts (assuming this includes the performing arts)
  9. Born before 1975
  10. Born north of the Mason-Dixon line
  11. Not an actress
  12. Has won more than one top award in her field: has won ten Grammys.
  13. Singer
  14. Not a Visual Artist (by which I mean not a painter, sculptor, printmaker, fashion designer, graphic artist), though she has often perform on stage to an audience
  15. Not best known for Rock & Roll (but I had to check some definitions to be sure)
  16. R& B artist, known for Funk
  17. Biggest hits in the 1970s and 1980s.
  18. Black

Revised #16 in hope of finishing this today.

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I don’t know any female funk singers, although I’m sure there were some.

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. American
  3. Living
  4. Last name starts with K
  5. Born after 1950
  6. Female
  7. Born east of the Mississippi
  8. Involved in the creative arts (assuming this includes the performing arts)
  9. Born before 1975
  10. Born north of the Mason-Dixon line
  11. Not an actress
  12. Has won more than one top award in her field: has won ten Grammys.
  13. Singer
  14. Not a Visual Artist (by which I mean not a painter, sculptor, printmaker, fashion designer, graphic artist), though she has often perform on stage to an audience
  15. Not best known for Rock & Roll (but I had to check some definitions to be sure)
  16. R& B artist, known for Funk
  17. Biggest hits in the 1970s and 1980s.
  18. Black
    18A. Fronted for Rufus before beginning her solo career.

This may or may not be the dead giveaway.