# Botticelli, July 2025 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [July 2, 2025, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412 "2025-07-02T17:50:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 20
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2025, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/381 "2025-07-27T12:07:25Z")
There’s spy/thriller and young adult. ---
**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:** [July 27, 2025, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/382 "2025-07-27T12:33:35Z")
Historical fiction, horror… ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2025, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/383 "2025-07-27T19:12:36Z")
Anything from Lovecraft? ---
**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:** [July 27, 2025, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/384 "2025-07-27T20:26:28Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > There’s spy/thriller and young adult. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Historical fiction, horror… Also war and (the admittedly vague genre of) drama. Can’t be Lovecraft, there weren’t any movies based on his works a hundred years apart. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2025, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/385 "2025-07-27T20:36:19Z")
> [@De\_La\_Rue](#): > > Can’t be Lovecraft, there weren’t any movies based on his works a hundred years apart. I have a valid guess as to the movie but I’ll withhold revealing it because I had to google it. ---
**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:** [July 27, 2025, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/386 "2025-07-27T21:08:33Z")
Six hours. No guesses yet? Not even a “Pass”? ---
**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:** [July 27, 2025, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/387 "2025-07-27T21:16:51Z")
Ho-kay, Pass. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2025, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/388 "2025-07-28T02:08:50Z")
Yeah, me too. I’m stumped. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2025, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/389 "2025-07-28T02:36:36Z")
I’ve got nothing. Either it’s a silent movie I haven’t heard of or I’ll be kicking myself for not getting it. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2025, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/390 "2025-07-28T03:06:11Z")
Well. I half expected Prof P to be all over this after kitap mentioned Westerns. I am **Trampas** , a "bad guy\* in Owen Wister’s novel _The Virginian_ (1902) and six movies/tv-movies based on it (1914, 1923, 1929, 1946, 2000, and 2014), but a “good guy” in the NBC TV series (1962-1971) . ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/391 "2025-07-28T06:25:11Z")
I’ve heard of **The Virginian** but not him. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2025, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/392 "2025-07-28T13:33:27Z")
“Smile when you say that.” I didn’t watch many westerns growing up. _Sky King, Roy Rogers, Zorro, The Lone Ranger, Death Valley Days, Wild Wild West_, but _The Virginian_ was popular for a long time, and I have heard of Trampas. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2025, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/393 "2025-07-28T13:34:05Z")
Never heard of him. (I _have_ heard of _The Virginian_, but only from the “When you call me that, smile!” line.) ---
**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:** [July 28, 2025, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/394 "2025-07-28T21:49:22Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > I’ve heard of **The Virginian** but not him. Likewise. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/395 "2025-07-28T22:24:37Z")
That makes three of us. ---
**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:** [July 29, 2025, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/396 "2025-07-29T11:58:37Z")
Sorry about the delay – fell asleep early for a change. I am **Q**. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/397 "2025-07-29T13:22:10Z")
**Q** it is! 1. Do you have a significant meaning to a fictional TV investigator? 2. Are you the third person to assume this title from both a movie and television series? 3. Did you hold a job that your namesake father held before you? ---
**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:** [July 29, 2025, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/398 "2025-07-29T13:27:40Z")
IQs: 1. Are you secretly El Kabong? 2. Did you play the daughter in _The Goodbye Girl_? 3. Did you direct _Pulp Fiction_? ---
**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:** [July 29, 2025, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/399 "2025-07-29T13:28:09Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > **Q** it is! > > 1. Do you have a significant meaning to a fictional TV investigator? > 2. Are you the third person to assume this title from both a movie and television series? > 3. Did you hold a job that your namesake father held before you? Let’s start with three DQs. (BTW, had you heard of Trampas or _The Virginian_ before yesterday?) ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412/400 "2025-07-29T13:31:01Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > BTW, had you heard of Trampas or _The Virginian_ before yesterday?) I don’t recall. It’s been many years since I last watched the show. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412.md?page=19) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2025/1020412.md?page=21)