# Botticelli - August 2019 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 3, 2019, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104 "2019-08-03T05:08:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**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:** [August 8, 2019, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/41 "2019-08-08T12:16:16Z")
Loralei Lee’s from the 1920’s… Think, think, think. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2019, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/42 "2019-08-08T12:17:32Z")
I get the feeling EH had been wanting to do L for a while because he thought of name for which he knew we wouldn’t ask the right questions. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2019, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/43 "2019-08-08T13:28:10Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > I get the feeling EH had been wanting to do L for a while because he thought of name for which he knew we wouldn’t ask the right questions. Actually not so, but I did think this would be a good person to use for Botticelli. ---
**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:** [August 9, 2019, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/44 "2019-08-09T12:17:01Z")
Still stumped so far… ---
**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:** [August 9, 2019, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/45 "2019-08-09T16:15:24Z")
OK, please ask all earned “Are you Firstname Lastname?” questions by noon EST Sunday. ---
**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:** [August 9, 2019, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/46 "2019-08-09T17:03:46Z")
Are you Tracy Lord from _The Philadelphia Story_? ---
**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:** [August 9, 2019, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/47 "2019-08-09T17:55:10Z")
I am not. ---
**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:** [August 10, 2019, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/48 "2019-08-10T15:06:19Z")
My best guess is Annabelle Lee from Poe, but that’s not it. ---
**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:** [August 10, 2019, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/49 "2019-08-10T22:21:53Z")
No, it isn’t. ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2019, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/50 "2019-08-11T16:01:15Z")
Unfortunately, I don’t know 1930s short stories well enough to make a guess (if it is a short story). Maybe it’s a character from something by Hemingway. ---
**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:** [August 12, 2019, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/51 "2019-08-12T04:26:33Z")
No, I am actually Dolly Levi Lead character of Thornton Wilder’s 1938 play _The Merchant of Yonkers_, later turned into the much more famous musical and then film _Hello, Dolly!_: [The Merchant of Yonkers - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Merchant_of_Yonkers) ---
**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:** [August 12, 2019, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/52 "2019-08-12T11:55:56Z")
Never considered that she had a last name, and didn’t think to ask about plays. You got us good EH. ---
**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:** [August 12, 2019, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/53 "2019-08-12T13:04:41Z")
Good choice, EH. She’s got elegance. I knew we’d discussed it before, but I’d forgotten we decided that plays were considered prose. ---
**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:** [August 12, 2019, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/54 "2019-08-12T15:25:44Z")
I wasn’t sure of that myself, but Wiki, at least, defines plays as literature: [Play (theatre) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play_(theatre)) OK, our next letter is B ---
**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:** [August 12, 2019, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/55 "2019-08-12T17:14:38Z")
IQs: 1. Did Liza Minnelli play you in _Cabaret_? 2. Did you play the title character in _Yentl_? 3. Did you spend decades reminding people to spay and neuter their pets? ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2019, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/56 "2019-08-12T19:26:49Z")
IQs: 1. Did you sit in enlightenment under the Bodhi tree? 2. Are you Tank Girl’s kangaroo friend? 3. Did you produce _Car Talk_? ---
**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:** [August 12, 2019, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/57 "2019-08-12T22:07:19Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did Liza Minnelli play you in _Cabaret_? > 2. Did you play the title character in _Yentl_? > 3. Did you spend decades reminding people to spay and neuter their pets? Not Sally Bowles, Barbra Streisand (hey, she played Dolly too!) or Bob Barker. > [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > IQs: > > 1. Did you sit in enlightenment under the Bodhi tree? > 2. Are you Tank Girl’s kangaroo friend? > 3. Did you produce _Car Talk_? Not the Buddha, Bouncer or Bob Magliozzi. ---
**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:** [August 12, 2019, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/58 "2019-08-12T22:27:00Z")
IQ1: Were you a foppish baronet in a novel based on a stage play written by the same person? IQ2: Were you an upholsterer in 18th-century Philadelphia? IQ3: Did you have 500 hats? ---
**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:** [August 12, 2019, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/59 "2019-08-12T22:43:32Z")
Swept me. IQs: 1. Did you play Captain Jack Harkness on _Doctor Who_? 2. Were you known as “the It Girl”? 3. Are you an adopted caveboy who grew up to marry your next door neighbor? ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2019, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104/60 "2019-08-13T04:40:02Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Not the Buddha, Bouncer or Bob Magliozzi. 2 (Tank Girl’s kangaroo friend) was Booga; 3 (the producer of _Car Talk_) was Doug “Bongo Boy” Berman. DQs: 1. real? 2. male? IQs: 3. Are you a one-eared cartoon rabbit? 4. Do you play the titular Marvelous Mrs. Maisel? 5. Were you Secretary-General of the UN in the 2000s? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-august-2019/838104.md?page=4)