Botticelli - August 2015

Thread Games
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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?

522

DQ: Originally European?
Two DQs reserved.

523

All I can think of is newspapers and magazines. And far too many web pages.

524

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…

525

DQ: Known from magazines?

holding a DQ

526

This is going to be one of those :smack::smack::smack::smack::smack: answers, isn’t it?

527

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  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?
528

Comic books, obviously.

IQ: Did you offer to teach young men how to avoid getting sand kicked in their faces?

529

I’ll bet that’s it.

530

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.

531

It was.

I couldn’t let go of Campbell’s Soup because of the Andy Warhol painting, even though the dates didn’t match.

532

…and now, I am T.

533

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?"

534

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?

535

I am not Tevya. Take 2 DQs.

536

I am not George Henry Thomas. Take 2 DQs.

537

Thurman Munson and Telly Savalas (who was Pontius Pilate in The Greatest Story Ever Told)
DQ1) Real?

DQ) Male?

538

Hey, Look over here! It’s September.