Botticelli, February 2014

Thread Games
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#1 was Gamaliel. #3 was Barney Google (with the goo-goo-googly eyes).
I’ll hold on to the DQs for the moment.

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IQs:

  1. Did Tyrone F. Horneigh make several passes at you?
  2. Were you Godzilla’s cartoon kid?
  3. Are you the Green Lantern sent to protect Antactica?
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For 1, I’m not Gladys. Cannot remember her last name, but we’re talking about Ruth Buzzi’s old spinster character on “Laugh-In.” Arte Johnson played dirty old man Tyrone. (Hope that’s enough to suitably identify Gladys.)

Take two DQs for 2 and 3.

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Yep, Gladys Ormphby was Ruth’s purse-slingin’ character.
#2 was Godzooky.
#3 was G’Nort, the shame of the Corps.

That puts me at 4 DQs. I’m thinking…

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Previous IQs:

Did you take off your clothes to distract a heavily-armed man? - Danny Glover, in one of the Lethal Weapon movies.
Were you one of the pals in Brian’s Song? - Yes, Gale Sayers.
Were you an OSU football star who didn’t do nearly as well in the NFL? - Archie Griffin.

DQs:

Appeared in two or more movies?
Had a postgraduate degree?

The latter to see if it’s a lawyer or doctor.

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Yes, appeared in two or more movies.
No, I do not have a postgraduate degree.

Summary for G:

  1. Not real.
  2. Male.
  3. Last name starts with G.
  4. Created in the twentieth century.
  5. American.
  6. Generally considered a good guy.
  7. Originally appeared in a little-known work of literature, but better known in another medium.
  8. Did not first appear on TV.
  9. If real, would still be alive today.
  10. Best known from a movie or movies.
  11. In print prior to 1980; in film after 1980.
  12. Protagonist.
    13, I don’t know if the literary work is from a recognized genre of literature. The movie certainly belongs to a genre of cinema.
  13. My name is not used in the title of the literary work or the movie.
  14. Not a resident of NYC.
  15. Main setting of the story is not east of the Mississippi.
  16. Not from a work of science fiction.
    18, Appeared in two or more movies.
  17. I do not have a postgraduate degree. Not a lawyer or a doctor.

(Like to see somebody get this, so on 19, I tossed in a freebie that you alluded to.)

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Thanks! Still not sure who this is. Hmm…

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Any ideas yet?

IQs welcome, of course; but let’s get one more DQ from whoever has one, then I’ll toss out a clue (if necessary).

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Oh, what the heck.

DQ: Criminal?

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Not a criminal.

Summary for G:

  1. Not real.
  2. Male.
  3. Last name starts with G.
  4. Created in the twentieth century.
  5. American.
  6. Generally considered a good guy.
  7. Originally appeared in a little-known work of literature, but better known in another medium.
  8. Did not first appear on TV.
  9. If real, would still be alive today.
  10. Best known from a movie or movies.
  11. In print prior to 1980; in film after 1980.
  12. Protagonist.
    13, I don’t know if the literary work is from a recognized genre of literature. The movie certainly belongs to a genre of cinema.
  13. My name is not used in the title of the literary work or the movie.
  14. Not a resident of NYC.
  15. Main setting of the story is not east of the Mississippi.
  16. Not from a work of science fiction.
    18, Appeared in two or more movies.
  17. I do not have a postgraduate degree. Not a lawyer or a doctor.
  18. Not a criminal.
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Well, at this point I don’t even have a good guess. I’m stumped.

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Would anybody like a clue?

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Well, I certainly don’t have a clue of my own to supply…

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I’ll take all the help I can get.

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Well, we know the following from the DQ answers:

Answers 10, 11, and 18 tell us that the character is best known from appearing in cinema after 1980; more specifically, in two or more movies.

Answer 16 tells us that the main setting of the story is “not east of the Mississippi.” That must mean west of the Mississippi, in at least one movie; and I’ll grant that while “west of the Mississippi” could include places like Hawaii or even Japan, our story takes place in the continental United States. But does it in two or more movies?

Also, what kind of movies are they? Answer 13 says a genre of cinema that may not equal a genre of literature, if indeed the literary work belongs to a genre at all. Science-fiction? Horror? Mystery? Suspense thriller? No, those are all out, as they are literary genres. Many libraries have separated these genres from the regular fiction.

Now, think back to when we had video stores. How were films categorized? Drama, comedy, adult, horror…? The library doesn’t categorize fictional books like the video store typically categorizes films. Is there something here?

Could be. If discard the literary genres that the library (and possibly the video store) separate out, we’re left with drama, comedy, and adult. I’ll admit that the films our character appears in are definitely not porn.

So we’re left with a post-1980 series of movies that are either drama or comedy, at least one of which takes place west of the Mississippi.

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Dq. Are you Kent Griswold from the national lampoon movies?

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Not a bad guess at all, at all. I’m still stumped.

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Close enough. I am Clark W. Griswold, from the National Lampoon Vacation movies.

Clark W. Griswold first appeared in “Vacation '58,” the original story. It was written by John Hughes (the same John Hughes who made films like The Breakfast Club); and it was published in the National Lampoon magazine in the fall of 1979. The first Vacation movie (National Lampoon’s Vacation) was made in 1983, and would be followed by three more Vacation films.

Well done, fanganga! Take us into the next round.

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Hooray, fanganga!! Three cheers!

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Thank you. I saw comedy and Griswold came to mind. Seems I couldn’t quite get the first name, but I thought I remembered it as one of Superman’s - just got the wrong one.

Your initial for the new round is D.