Botticelli May 2025

Thread Games
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Anyone? Bueller?

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We’re all waiting for EH to come back and ask about Friday.

If it is Friday, you could go ahead and give it to EH.

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Yes! Thank God I’m Friday. Congratulations, Elendil. Should have figured there are only so many 18th century literary figures…

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Hey, wait – I still have a DQ!

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Sorry, mom, the mob has spoken! Monorail, monorail…

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Ah, thanks, Thing.Fish! I read

  • Author native speaker of a Germanic language
  • Not a native English speaker

in conjunction with each other.

Here’s more on the character: Friday (Robinson Crusoe) - Wikipedia

I’ll start a new round later today.

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Updated: Botticelli - the letters we've used so far - #134 by Elendil_s_Heir

And our next letter is

E

Have at you!

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Good guesswork, E_H!

IQs:

  1. Did you commission a building which would eventually become known as Westminster Abbey?
  2. Did you pen “Sonnet XLIII”?
  3. Were you the primary target of T-1000?
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IQs:

  1. Did you lead a faction of the Last Alliance of Elves and Men?
  2. Did you finish 19th in the 1914 Indianapolis 500 and eventually become head of Eastern Airlines?
  3. Were you a Hall of Fame manager for the Baltimore Orioles?
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IQs:
1. Are you a current female cast member of Saturday Night Live?
2. Or the above person’s Weekend Update stand-up comedy persona, sucka?
3. Were you Client #9?

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Not King Edward III, dunno, and dunno.

Not Elendil, dunno and dunno.

Dunno, dunno and not Eliot Spitzer.

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Correct (hey, I had to try it), Eddie Rickenbacker, and Earl Weaver.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. Female?
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Congrats!

  1. Did you write, among other books, Thimble Summer?
  2. Are you perhaps best known for playing Robert McCall?
  3. Did you write, among other books, Magic by the Lake?
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Nice job, Elendil!

  1. Did you play Mary Tyler Moore’s gruff but lovable boss in her titular sitcom?
  2. Do you hold the record for most votes received by a US Presidential candidate who was in prison on Election Day?
  3. Are you known for writing children’s literature and for your partnership with Strunk?
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Respectively:
1 was Ego Nwodim; 2 was Miss Eggy.

DQ: first name begins with E?

1 DQ reserved.

IQs:
1. Were you in the Hellfire Club?
2. Were you leader of Albania?
3. Did you voice Maggie Simpson?

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IQs:

  1. Have you played a cruel headmistress, a cruel fashion designer and the head of MiB?
  2. Did you star in CHiPs?
  3. Were you the famous fool-among-fools voiced by Spike Milligan and known for catchphrases such as “Hello, dere!” and telling yourself to shut up on the highly acclaimed, bourbon-infused, polyunsaturated 1950’s BBC radio series, The Goon Show?
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  1. I was thinking of Edward the Confessor (last monarch from the House of Wessex, succeeded by William the Conqueror/William I in 1066), but upon verifying with Wikipedia it seems you are correct. In fact, there are two crowned monarchs named Edward III. I’ll withdraw my IQ.
  2. Edna St Vincent Millay
  3. Edward Furlong (John Connor, Terminator 2). However, my question was about the role, not the actor. I’ll withdraw this IQ also.

1 DQ reserved

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Dunno, dunno and not E.B. White.

Not Ed Asner, Eugene V. Debs and also not E.B. White.

Dunno, not Enver Hoxha (sp?) and not Elizabeth Taylor (once, and only once!).

Not the great Emma Thompson, not Erik Estrada and dunno.

E.

  1. fictional
  2. female
  3. first name begins with E
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Correct, correct and the Famous Eccles!

DQ: Originally from TV or movies?

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  1. Were you a Sweathog?
  2. Were you a member of Public Enemy?
  3. Did you write The Monkey Wrench Gang?