Botticelli - May 2017

Thread Games
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Well, that is the first syllable of his name…

I guess it’s up to EH, then.

122

Hmpf. If they going to move them to Mississippi, they could at least have put them in Vicksburg.

123

One last DQ, to see if it helps EH:

DQ: Second letter of last name is a vowel?
Wake me up when the next game starts…

124

DQ Roundup

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Alive
  4. Born since 1964
  5. Not known for the arts
  6. Last name starts with G
  7. American
  8. Not known for politics/military
  9. Not known for business
  10. Born south of Mason-Dixon
  11. Known for sports
  12. Known for playing baseball or football
  13. Currently active
  14. Not white
  15. Plays football
  16. Player for a team based east of the Mississippi
  17. Plays in the NFL
  18. Definitely does not play for a team that made it to the Superbowl in the last 5 years
  19. Second letter of last name is a vowel

Sorry guys, didn’t realize this subject matter would go over like a lead balloon.

I misunderstood the earlier DQ. I thought you meant “goes by first letter of last name,” not “first syllable.” Turns out no harm done.

125

What the heck – I still have one reserved DQ; might as well get this over with.

DQ: Best known for playing offence?

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DQ Roundup

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. Alive
  4. Born since 1964
  5. Not known for the arts
  6. Last name starts with G
  7. American
  8. Not known for politics/military
  9. Not known for business
  10. Born south of Mason-Dixon
  11. Known for sports
  12. Known for playing baseball or football
  13. Currently active
  14. Not white
  15. Plays football
  16. Player for a team based east of the Mississippi
  17. Plays in the NFL
  18. Definitely does not play for a team that made it to the Superbowl in the last 5 years
  19. Second letter of last name is a vowel
  20. Plays defense

Go ahead and ask any outstanding DQs you have, then we start the name guessing.

127

I only know a few of the Colts.

DQ: Are you Denzel Good?

128

I don’t know the NFL all that well, and can’t think of any players to fit these answers. I yield my remaining DQ to whoever wishes to use it.

129

I am not Denzel Good.

130

Grange and Gronkowski are the only ‘G’ football players I can think of (not that I can name more than a dozen or so anyway*), so I pass.

  • Grange, Gronkowski, “Refrigerator” Perry, Joe Montana, Bart Starr, O J Simpson, “Mean Joe” Greene, Joe Namath…
131

OK, let’s wrap this up. I am Myles Garrett! I am 2017’s #1 NFL draft pick, picked up by perennial cellar dwellers the Cleveland Browns.

If nobody’s heard of him, I’ll pass this off.

132

I haven’t.

133

I can’t say I’ve ever heard of him.

134

OK SCAdian, you want the next round?

135

House rules are that it goes back to the previous host, which in this case was the Prof.

136

This time, I am T.

137

IQ1: Did you invent the Chicago typewriter?
IQ2: Did you write The Mysterious Stranger?
IQ3: Did you write the Marche Slave?

138

IQ1: Are you a Monty Python member who directed 12 Monkeys?
IQ2: Are you a Monty Python member who directed Life of Brian?
IQ3: Were you the original lead singer and guitarist for the band Chicago before your death in 1978?

139

I confess I should have, but had not, heard of Myles Garrett before.

IQs:

Were you buried in your wife’s hometown, in part because your sisters had disowned you?
Did the same actor who played an aspiring king and a British detective also play you in an HBO miniseries?
Are you a scruffy soothsayer in the comic musical Something Rotten?

140

#2. I am not Mark Twain.
#3. I am not Tschaikovsky.
Take a DQ for #1.