Botticelli, July 2023

Thread Games
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Aha! Good guess, SMV.

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Drat for a slow moving vehicle you move pretty fast. I was leaning in that direction but I wanted to see if my Harry Potter DQ came back positive before making the plunge. Alas he who hesitates is lost. Good Job SMV.

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I know, I feel a little guilty, as I was thinking it was Gaspode, from the Discworld novels, until you got me thinking about the Potterverse. I kinda stole this one out from under you.

Okay, I’ll start the next round in a couple of hours. Got to look at EH’s list of letters and come up with a name. I promise, this next one won’t be quite so obscure as Ani DiFranco apparently was.

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Okay, here we go. I am:


Yay, it worked!

That’s a “C”, just for the record.

Also, I have quoted and updated @Elendil_s_Heir’s list of used letters as of July 21.

Fire away!

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Thanks, SMV.

IQs:

Do you have arguably the silliest alternative name of anyone in Middle-earth?
Were you the Finches’ cook and housekeeper?
Did Malcolm McDowell play you in a big-budget skin flick?

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IQs:

  1. Does Jean LaFoote regularly attempt to steal your goods?
  2. Do you court the vivacious Minnie Bannister on the highly acclaimed shallot-eating 1950’s BBC radio series The Goon Show?
  3. Were you one of the Mamas and the Papas?
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  1. I am not…hmm, Celeborn? Not an especially silly name, but I can’t think of any other LOTR character with a “C”-name, except for What’s-’is-name the Shipwright, the dude at the Grey Havens. I’m sure I’m going to face-palm when you tell me the answer.

  2. I am not Calpurnia.

  3. I am not Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Caligula.

  1. DQ.

  2. DQ.

  3. I am not Mama Cass Elliot.

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Congrats, Vehicle!

IQs:
1. Did you defend John Scopes?
2. Did you play Jackie on Doctor Who?
3. Did you create Dick Tracy?

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Swept me. Celeborn’s alternative name is Teleporno.

IQs:

Were you the only bearded Elf we know of in Middle-earth?
Were you “the little drummer-boy of Shiloh”?
Were you the first to fly across America, crash by crash?

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Congrats!

  1. Were you writer Thorne Smith’s most famous character?
  2. Are you the main character in Patricia Wrede’s book Dealing with Dragons?
  3. Are you Judy Davis’s character in the movie The Ref?
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  1. I am not Clarence Darrow.

  2. Damn, I can picture her face, but I’ve never known the actress’ name. DQ.

  3. I am not … Chester Gould? Take a DQ if I’m wrong.

Snerk. “Teleporno”, eh? Didn’t realize Lothlórien had the internet.

You’ve returned the favor. 3 DQs.

  1. I am not…Thomas Covenant?
  2. DQ.
  3. DQ.
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1 was correct; 2 was Camille Codhuri; 3 was correct.

DQ: real?

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#1 was Cap’n Crunch.
#2 is Henry Crum!
#3 is correct.

DQs:

  1. Male?
  2. Last name starts with C?
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IQs:

  1. Are you a rooster who appears in tales of Reynard the Fox?
  2. Did you say “Big book, big evil”?
  3. Did you play Coco in the movie Fame?
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Previous IQs:

Were you the only bearded Elf we know of in Middle-earth? - Cirdan the Shipwright, to whom you alluded earlier
Were you “the little drummer-boy of Shiloh”? - Johnny Clem: John Clem - Wikipedia
Were you the first to fly across America, crash by crash? - The great Cal Rodgers: Calbraith Perry Rodgers - Wikipedia

DQs:

American?

Two DQs reserved.

IQs:

Are you Mrs. Harrison Ford?
Were you elected President in 1940 in The Plot Against America?
Did the Mount Rushmore locals stock a lake for you to fish in?

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IQs:
1. Were you a script doctor and author of Delusions of Grandma, and also acted?
2. Do you wear red-and-white striped headgear, gloves, a bowtie, and nothing else?
3. Were you a paleontologist and competitor of Othniel Marsh in the Bone Wars?

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IQ

  1. DId you start as a character in an 80’s computer game designed to teach kids geography but ended up getting your own tv show?
  2. Are you the main character in a move franchise that started with “Child’s Play”?
  3. Did you prophesy the fall of Troy?
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  1. I am not Chaunticleer.
  2. DQ.
  3. DQ.

I kinda suspected, after I posted my reply. The only other “C”-name I could think of was Celebrimbor, and I’m not even certain who exactly that is.

  1. I am not Callista Flockhart.
  2. DQ.
  3. I am not…Crazy Horse? Probably not…
  1. DQ.
  2. I am not the Cat in the Hat.
  3. I am not Henry Drinker Cope (whose war with O.C. Marsh I first read about here on the Dope).
  1. I am not Carmen San Diego, nor do I know where in the world she is.
  2. I am not Chucky.
  3. I am not Cassandra.
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DQs:

  1. Real.
  2. Not male.
  3. Surname begins with C.
  4. American.
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Previous IQs:

Are you Mrs. Harrison Ford? - Yes, Callista Flockhart
Were you elected President in 1940 in The Plot Against America? - Charles Lindbergh
Did the Mount Rushmore locals stock a lake for you to fish in? - President Calvin Coolidge

DQs:

Living?
Best known for politics/military?

IQs:

Did you say you forgot your own name when you met your future spouse?
Were you that spouse?
Are you their best-known child?