Botticelli - August 2015

Thread Games
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I watched a few Australian rules football games on ESPN back around '81-'82…

442

You’re on, astorian!

443

Well, I don’t need no stinkin’ letter.

IQs:

  1. Were you that guy, who did that thing in that place?
  2. Did you write or sing about #1?
  3. Were you #2’s girlfriend/wife/mistress?
444

Sorry to keep everybody waiting- yesterday was a busy day and I didn’t even know I’d won til this morning.

Let’s go with… C

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IQs:

  1. Were you aka Giuseppe Balsamo?
  2. Were you the top Box Office draw of the 1940’s?
  3. Were you the Lonesome Cougar as shown in seemingly endless reruns on Disney’s The Wonderful World of Color?
446

Oh why not, let’s keep going with sports stars who commited crimes.

IQ1: Are you a Carolina Panthers wide receiver currently serving time for conspiracy to murder your pregnant girlfriend?
IQ2: Are you a Miami Dolphins running back who served 12 years for burglary?
IQ3: Are you a Puerto Rican MLB first baseman who served time for drug possession?

447

C it is.

IQs:

Did you give a campaign speech in front of a giant poster of yourself?
Were you the Tory heavy in Jeffrey Archer’s political thriller First Among Equals?
Did you dictate letters to your sister back in Boston?

Dunno any of those. Dammit!

448

No idea on #1.

So many possibilities for #, but I’ll guess not Cary Grant (could easily be Gary Cooper or CLark Gable or James Cagney or…)

No idea on #3.

You get either 2 or 3 DQs.

449

Not Rae Carruth or Orlando Cepeda
Take a DQ! for #2

450

Shoot, I haven’t been swept in a while, but I don’t know any of these. Take 2 DQs.

451

#1 was Count Alessandro di Cagliostro. Balsamo was his real name.
#2 was Bing Crosby.
#3 was Charlie the Lonesome Cougar. I must’ve seen it two dozen times, and all the while I just wanted a cartoon.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?
  3. Last name starts with C?
452

SUMMARY

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with C
453

Cecil Collins

DQ: Alive?

454

Athlete/musicians

IQ1: Are you a current NASCAR driver who owns the record label Back40 Records, named after the way you do a back flip when you win races?
IQ2: Are you a Puerto Rican boxer who won titles in 7 weight divisions and also sang and played flamenco guitar?
IQ3: When you played for the LA Lakers, did you build a million-dollar mansion you called the “Ursa Major” where you kept your bongo drums, as a play on your nickname “The Big Dipper?”

455

SUMMARY

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with C
  4. Dead
456

Not Hector (Macho) Camacho or Wilt Chamberlain.
DQ for 1

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IQs:

  1. Did you pal around with Tennessee Tuxedo?
  2. Did you write a tell-all book about your father because you had to pay off gambling debts?
  3. Did Mark Twain vehemently and hilariously abject to the facts in your novels?
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Not Chumley (Cholmondeley?) the Walrus.

Not Gary Crosby

Not James Fenimore Cooper

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Correct all around.

IQs:

  1. Did you write How To Tell Your Friends From The Apes?
  2. Did you have a hit with Sunglasses At Night?
  3. Were you a Texas aviator known for your poor directional sense?
460

Take a DQ for #1

Not Corey Hart or Wrong Way Corrigan