# Botticelli May 2025 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [May 8, 2025, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078 "2025-05-08T03:06:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 19
**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:** [May 31, 2025, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/361 "2025-05-31T17:24:37Z")
Final DQs: 1. appeared in movie(s), not TV? 2. Asian? ---
**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:** [May 31, 2025, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/362 "2025-05-31T17:35:48Z")
You posted after the deadline, but I’ll answer 'em. L. 1. fictional 2. male 3. first name begins with L 4. a main character 5. not originally from movies and/or TV 6. created after 1950 7. American creator 8. from prose fiction 9. unclear, but apparently not an American character 10. the fiction the character appears in is somewhat realistic (no supernatural but several fantastic elements) 11. character appears in more than one major work 12. not Caucasian 13. setting contemporary to its writing 14. adapted into film and/or TV 15. created before 1987 16. was the title character of at least one work 17. created before 1969 18. created after 1959 19. not from comedies, although there are certainly humorous elements to the work 20. movie and/or TV versions not better known than prose version, I’d say, but YMMV 21. last name doesn’t begin A-M 22. appeared in animation or cartoon 23. hasn’t appeared in a movie, as far as I can tell 24. not Asian Right. Please ask all earned “Are you Firstname Lastname?” questions by noon Mon. EST. ---
**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:** [May 31, 2025, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/363 "2025-05-31T17:41:18Z")
So from a book or books in the 1960’s. May not be human. Possibly from children’s lit. Time to start thinking. ---
**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:** [May 31, 2025, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/364 "2025-05-31T18:53:10Z")
Well, possibly a short story, but I think a novel is more likely. Also adapted into a TV cartoon. ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2025, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/365 "2025-06-01T04:19:52Z")
Would prose fiction discount comic books? ---
**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:** [June 1, 2025, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/366 "2025-06-01T14:37:43Z")
> [@knoodler](#): > > Would prose fiction discount comic books? I would say ‘yes’. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2025, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/367 "2025-06-02T14:55:11Z")
Neither comics nor plays are considered to be prose. I’m pretty 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:** [June 2, 2025, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/368 "2025-06-02T17:35:07Z")
I as well. Either I’ll kick myself for it being so obvious or it’ll be somebody I’ve never heard of. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2025, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/369 "2025-06-02T17:45:42Z")
Well, let’s see. I am # Lowly Worm from the Richard Scarry [kids’ books and later TV series.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowly_Worm) ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2025, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/370 "2025-06-02T17:52:25Z")
EDIT: never mind ---
**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:** [June 2, 2025, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/371 "2025-06-02T18:02:27Z")
Well, yes, as a dad I know of Lowly Worm. Great choice, EH! ---
**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:** [June 2, 2025, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/372 "2025-06-02T18:04:36Z")
Aw HELL, not _that_ obvious but I have heard of the character. Lowly Worm! With the apple car! ---
**Author:** ![knoodler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ccd318/32.png) [@knoodler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/knoodler)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2025, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/373 "2025-06-02T18:06:27Z")
It completely flew below my radar. ---
**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:** [June 2, 2025, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/374 "2025-06-02T19:31:13Z")
Well, he is _very_ low… New thread: [Botticelli, June 2025](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-june-2025/1019118) ---
**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:** [June 2, 2025, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078/375 "2025-06-02T22:03:43Z")
I got a couple of the books for my kids, but hadn’t realised there was a TV show. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-may-2025/1018078.md?page=18)