# Botticelli - June 2012

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**Created:** [June 7, 2012, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406 "2012-06-07T17:23:44Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2012/624406/100 "2012-06-12T01:56:25Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> As to **Spoons** ’s question, if middle initials are fair game…
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> IQs
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> Did your ex-wife once find herself in the potential line of fire where you worked?  
> Were a Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps?  
> Did you dig hole after hole after hole?

In the case of ‘x’, I think middle initials will prove necessary if the game isn’t to bog down into ‘Who the Hell else begins with an ‘x’?’

Once again, Dúnedain, it is not only that I cannot name the people you hint at, I cannot place a single one of these references. Strider? Nay, Wingthought I name you. Take three DQs.

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