Botticelli - February 2020

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Not Ace Ventura, Pinocchio (?) and dunno.

No more IQs, please.

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#1 is correct.
#2 was the Velveteen Rabbit.
#3 is Vaizatha.

Since you placed a previous limitation, I only get 1 DQ.

DQ: From a folk song?

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V.

  1. fictional
  2. female
  3. first name starts with V
  4. not from books
  5. created after 1900
  6. by an American creator or creators
  7. not from TV or movies
  8. race unknown
  9. from song
  10. created after 1959
  11. Wiki does not describe it as a pop song
  12. created before 1979
  13. created after 1969
  14. not from a show tune/musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
  15. from a song that charted on the Billboard Top 40
  16. her name is not in the song title
  17. from a love song, of sorts
  18. not from an R&B/Jazz song
  19. not sung by a female singer
  20. not sung by a group
  21. not a country western song
  22. not from a folk song

Take one more, Prof. P. You earned it.

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So, not a pop song (according to Wiki), jazz, R&B, C&W, showtune or folk; sung by a male singer (apparently), from a kind of a love song that made the Top 40 charts 1970-1978.

What’s left? Hymns? Instrumentals? Novelty songs? Reggae? World music?

Thinking…

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DQ: Is the character one of the main characters in the song?

An example: in Mack the Knife there’s a list of female victims of Mack. Those would NOT be considered main characters.

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V.

  1. fictional
  2. female
  3. first name starts with V
  4. not from books
  5. created after 1900
  6. by an American creator or creators
  7. not from TV or movies
  8. race unknown
  9. from song
  10. created after 1959
  11. Wiki does not describe it as a pop song
  12. created before 1979
  13. created after 1969
  14. not from a show tune/musical (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
  15. from a song that charted on the Billboard Top 40
  16. her name is not in the song title
  17. from a love song, of sorts
  18. not from an R&B/Jazz song
  19. not sung by a female singer
  20. not sung by a group
  21. not a country western song
  22. not from a folk song
  23. character is one of the main characters in the song

Please ask all earned “Are you Firstname Lastname?” questions by noon Friday EST.

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Still clueless.

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And then, pow! I dunno if it’s right, but…

DQ: Are you Virginia from Billy Joel’s Only The Good Die Young?

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Dingdingding! Yes, I am indeed

Virginia

from that very song: Only the Good Die Young - Wikipedia

Well done, Prof. P.! I thought I had you all. Please start a new thread for March.

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March 2020 thread: https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=22174714#post22174714