# Botticelli - June 2024

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2024/1002278>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [May 30, 2024, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2024/1002278 "2024-05-30T15:51:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 11

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**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2024, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2024/1002278/201 "2024-07-01T19:39:36Z")

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I am not Orpheus, nor am I Oscar Meyer, but…

DINGDINGDING

I am the late

# Orenthal James “O.J./The Juice” Simpson

Heisman Trophy winner, NFL MVP, Hertz pitchman, star of such cinematic classics as _The Towering Inferno_, _Capricorn One_, and _The Naked Gun_ movies, and of course murderer of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.

Good guess @Slow_Moving_Vehicle , and you are up!

ETA: probably (past) time to start the July thread…

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**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 1, 2024, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2024/1002278/202 "2024-07-01T21:29:25Z")

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Previous IQs:

An Alsatian minister, were you the Gandhi of your day? - John Frederick Oberlin, namesake of the Ohio college.  
Did you pretend to appear nude from the waist down on _SNL_? - This was also O.J. Simpson, in a scene set in a football locker room. I asked about him first, but **SMV** can do the next round (and yes, please start a July thread).  
Did you refuse to obey the segregation laws in Nawlins, your hometown? - Lee Harvey Oswald (perhaps his only redeeming character trait)

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**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 2, 2024, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2024/1002278/203 "2024-07-02T13:19:18Z")

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Nicely played, **SMV**.

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**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2024, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2024/1002278/204 "2024-07-02T15:02:22Z")

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Thank you all, especially **EH** for yielding his turn. Ive created a July thread here:

> [@Botticelli - July 2024](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-july-2024/1003634):
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> Hello, all, and welcome back to another month of “Lives of the Great Accountants”! Oh, wait, sorry, I meant “welcome to a new month of Botticelli!” I am N! [Link to last month’s thread.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2024/1002278)

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