Botticelli - February 2018

Thread Games
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Happy Groundhog Day.

The new letter is O!

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IQs:

  1. Did you play Deadpool’s blind roommate in Deadpool?
  2. Did you play Spenser in Spenser For Hire?
  3. Were you portrayed by both Jackie Coogan and Christopher Lloyd?
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don’t recall, don’t know, I can only think of Uncle Fester so take a DQ

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  1. Is your home larger on the inside than it appears on the outside?
  2. Did you marry the Empress of the Twenty Universes?
  3. Did you own and operate an enamelware factory?
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Welcome to the game! Nice to no longer be the newbie :).

I hate to be that guy (actually, what am I saying - I love to be that guy!) but although our last round did indeed involve N, it was actually based on T. We did O, P, Q, R, S just recently. Now we’ve started I guess we may as well continue, and maybe move back to U thereafter? It’s not like it matters much, anyway.

IQ: Did Douglas Adams accuse you of sloppy writing of the sixth line of one of your most famous songs, calling it a “placeholder lyric” but suggesting you couldn’t think of anything better before publication?
IQ: Did you appear to drop subtle hints that you were an enemy of the Party in order to entrap somebody else?
IQ: Are you the almost universally hated boss of European budget airline Ryanair?

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Welcome back!

Take 3 DQs.

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Oh shit, you’re right!

Sorry everyone. Senior moment.

Tim, Prof, DC, keep your 3 DQs.

Let’s start over with T!

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Er… we just did T…

:slight_smile:

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Head, meet wall.

I am U!

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U sure? :slight_smile:

For tidiness, the answers to my previous answers were Oscar Hammerstein (referencing “La, a note to follow So”), O’Brien from Orwell’s 1984, and Michael O’Leary. I don’t wish to claim my DQs though, so:

IQ: Are you a recently departed sci-fi author?
IQ: Are you a ‘larger-than-life" character portrayed by John Candy?
IQ: Were ‘sent back to school’ by your employer in a fairly transparent (and ultimately, amusingly unsuccessful) bid to take more control of pupils’ education?

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I hadn’t realized you’d gone with O. My IQs were directed at U anyway.

#1 was Leslie Uggams.
#2 was Robert Urich.
Correct on Uncle Fester.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Male?
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It would seem we’re all rather in worlds of our own today!

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Last month’s thread: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=846013

U got it!

IQs:

Did you star in the post-apocalyptic TV drama Jericho?
Were you a senior UN official of the Sixties?
Were you Igraine’s illicit royal lover?

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DQ Roundup

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
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not Ursula K. LeGuin, 2 DQs

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DQ, not U Thant, not Uther Pendragon

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IQs:

  1. Are you aka Shoeshine Boy?
  2. Are you the villain in Disney’s The Little Mermaid?
  3. Did you hang around with George of the Jungle?
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Previous IQs:

Did you star in the post-apocalyptic TV drama Jericho? - Skeet Ulrich (my own “U” mystery person last time, I think)
Were you a senior UN official of the Sixties? - Yes, U Thant of Burma
Were you Igraine’s illicit royal lover? - Yes, Uther Pendragon, father of King Arthur

DQ:

Last name start with U?

IQs:

Were you the heroine of Kate Atkinson’s novel Life After Life?
Were you the villain of Disney’s The Little Mermaid?
Did your white bikini in a movie make a, er, big splash?

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DQ Roundup

  1. Fictional
  2. Female
  3. Only name starts with U
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not Underdog, not Ursula, dunno