Botticelli, July 2025

Thread Games
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YES!!! I am

Oddjob

Main henchman of Auric Goldfinger and master wielder of the flying top hat.

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And now…

D!

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IQ1: Was your cockney accent badly flawed?
IQ2: Did you have a barrow in the marketplace?
IQ3: Were you a conscientious objector who was awarded the Medal of Honor?

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Congrats, Prof.! “British character” threw me off (Oddjob is Korean).

IQs:
1. Were you Janet on The Good Place?
2. Were you, as it turned out, Mark Felt?
3. Were you a voiceover actor noted for narrating movie trailers?

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#1. I am not Dick van Dyke, whose misfortune it was to hire a dialect coach who didn’t know what he was doing.
#2. I am not Obla-Desmond.
#3 Take a DQ.

Take 3 DQs.

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correct
correct
Desmond Doss


DQ: Real?

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DQ:

  1. Real
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IQ1: Did you have a special relationship with a 1928 Porter?
IQ2: Are you a sailor named Fauntleroy?
IQ3: Are you #2’s nephew?

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1 was D’arcy Carden; 2 was “Deep Throat”; 3 was Don “In a world…” LaFontaine.

DQs:
1. living?
2. female?
3. first name begins with D?

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Living
  3. Male
  4. First name begins with D
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IQs:

  1. Did you share secrets with two reporters in All the President’s Men?
  2. Did Homer Simpson include your name in his recitation of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer?
  3. Are you the “sweet” one in It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia?
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IQs:
1. 1953-1961?
2. Did you go on adventures with your twin brother, your washed-up super-scientist father, and your bodyguard Brock Samson? (And does a song by your brother’s band mention the jacket named after the above person?)
3. Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong,
And you are Marie of Roumania?

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  1. I am not Deep Throat.
  2. I am not Dasher or Dancer.
  3. Take a DQ.
  1. Take a DQ.
  2. That’s gotta be from The Venture Brothers, but I don’t know. Take a DQ.
  3. I am not Dorothy Parker.
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Oy!

..

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1 was Dwight Eisenhower; 2 was Dean Venture.

DQs:
1. born after 1960?
2. American?

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[quote=“Prof.Pepperwinkle, post:190, topic:1020412, full:true”]
DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Living
  3. Male
  4. First name begins with D
  5. Born after 1960
  6. American
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Sorry.
#1. I am not Jerry van Dyke.
#2. I am not Donald Duck?
#3. I am not Dewey Duck?

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correct x3!

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Good call on Oddjob, Prof!

IQs:

  1. Did you score the injury-time goal to send the U.S. into the round of 16 in the 2010 World Cup?
  2. Did you try to score a few seconds earlier, but were snuffed by the goalie?
  3. Are you a presidential scion who may have designs of his own on the Oval Office?
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IQs:
1. Did your ex-husband Charles recently take over his mother’s position after seventy years?
2. Did you explore mysteries with your twin sister in the town of Gravity Falls?
3. Speaking of TV shows about weird shit in small Pacific northwest towns, did you create Twin Peaks?