# Botticelli - August 2015 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 5, 2015, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053 "2015-08-05T12:08:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 27
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2015, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/521 "2015-09-03T21:20:21Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Okay, BESIDES TV and radio, what art medium has both a lot of SDMB fans and a lot of advertising? Books, short stories and poems don’t have ads. Nor do plays/musicals Nor do paintings or sculptures. Music typically doesn’t. What else is there? ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2015, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/522 "2015-09-03T21:21:33Z")
DQ: Originally European? Two DQs reserved. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2015, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/523 "2015-09-03T21:22:58Z")
All I can think of is newspapers and magazines. And far too many web pages. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2015, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/524 "2015-09-03T21:27:22Z")
# SUMMARY 1. Real 2. Male 3. First name starts with C 4. Dead 5. Died after 1900 6. Not involved in the arts (though I’m best known to fans of one particular art form) 7. Died before 2000 8. Not involved in politics 9. An American citizen, but born and raised elsewhere 10. Had a popular image as a good guy (SEEMED like a good guy in real life, but who knows?) 11. Common first name 12. Famous for selling a product or service; but it’s very hard to categorize the product or service neatly 13. Dance fans are NOT the art lovers who know me best. 14. Died after 1960 15. Appeared as myself in many advertisements, but NOT on television 16. Not known from radio 17. Caucasian 18. Born and raised in Europe (though many people don’t know that) SCAdian is actually getting warm. He mentions the broad, general medium, he just has to get more specific. Web pages aren’t generally an art form, though they CAN contain art. Newspapers aren’t generally an art form, though they often DO contain the relevant art form… ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/525 "2015-09-04T12:05:22Z")
DQ: Known from magazines? holding a DQ ---
**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:** [September 4, 2015, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/526 "2015-09-04T13:49:20Z")
This is going to be one of those :smack::smack::smack::smack::smack: answers, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/527 "2015-09-04T13:55:21Z")
======== 1. Real 2. Male 3. First name starts with C 4. Dead 5. Died after 1900 6. Not involved in the arts (though I’m best known to fans of one particular art form) 7. Died before 2000 8. Not involved in politics 9. An American citizen, but born and raised elsewhere 10. Had a popular image as a good guy (SEEMED like a good guy in real life, but who knows?) 11. Common first name 12. Famous for selling a product or service; but it’s very hard to categorize the product or service neatly 13. Dance fans are NOT the art lovers who know me best. 14. Died after 1960 15. Appeared as myself in many advertisements, but NOT on television 16. Not known from radio 17. Caucasian 18. Born and raised in Europe (though many people don’t know that) 19. Best known for a very specific TYPE of magazine (a type I’m guessing many SDMB regulars are well acquainted with)- and remember that most magazines are not really part of “the arts”- what kind IS? ---
**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:** [September 4, 2015, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/528 "2015-09-04T14:00:28Z")
Comic books, obviously. IQ: Did you offer to teach young men how to avoid getting sand kicked in their faces? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/529 "2015-09-04T14:23:30Z")
I’ll bet that’s it. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/530 "2015-09-04T14:36:06Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Comic books, obviously. > > IQ: Did you offer to teach young men how to avoid getting sand kicked in their faces? YESSSSSS!!! I am bodybuilder **CHARLES ATLAS** (born Angelo Siciliano, in Calabria, Italy) For most of my life (and for decades after my death), I have been teaching 97 pound weaklings to bulk up using my secret method of Dynamic Tension. Congrats, Professor. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/531 "2015-09-04T14:52:56Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > This is going to be one of those :smack::smack::smack::smack::smack: answers, isn’t it? It was. I couldn’t let go of Campbell’s Soup because of the Andy Warhol painting, even though the dates didn’t match. ---
**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:** [September 4, 2015, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/532 "2015-09-04T15:23:03Z")
…and now, I am T. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/533 "2015-09-04T15:28:04Z")
IQ1) Are you an All-Star Yankee catcher who died in a private plane crash? IQ2) Did you sentence Max von Sydow to death is a movie? IQ3) Did you tell your wife about a nightmare in which the ghost of the local butcher’s wife haunted you?" ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/534 "2015-09-04T15:39:35Z")
IQs: Were you “the Rock of Chickamauga”? Did your portrait painter have a sudden inspiration hit him as to where to paint you? Did you attend Oberlin College but not graduate? ---
**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:** [September 4, 2015, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/535 "2015-09-04T16:19:28Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > IQ1) Are you an All-Star Yankee catcher who died in a private plane crash? > > IQ2) Did you sentence Max von Sydow to death is a movie? > > IQ3) Did you tell your wife about a nightmare in which the ghost of the local butcher’s wife haunted you?" I am not Tevya. Take 2 DQs. ---
**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:** [September 4, 2015, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/536 "2015-09-04T16:20:32Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > IQs: > > Were you “the Rock of Chickamauga”? > Did your portrait painter have a sudden inspiration hit him as to where to paint you? > Did you attend Oberlin College but not graduate? I am not George Henry Thomas. Take 2 DQs. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2015, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/537 "2015-09-04T17:08:25Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > I am not Tevya. Take 2 DQs. Thurman Munson and Telly Savalas (who was Pontius Pilate in _ **The Greatest Story Ever Told** _) DQ1) Real? DQ) Male? ---
**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:** [September 4, 2015, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2015/727053/538 "2015-09-04T17:20:23Z")
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