Botticelli, Nov. 2022

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Right, then. I am, in fact,

Candido Jacuzzi

an Italian-American inventor and businessman who co-invented a submersible pump to help his ailing son, and then helped expand his family’s company to capitalize on it: Jacuzzi - Wikipedia

Next letter coming soon.

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Good one!! Never realized Jacuzzi started as an airplane company. Sort of like how Nintendo started in the 1800s making playing cards.

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Very nice choice indeed.

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Never heard of him.

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Ah, well. Our next letter is

F

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IQ1: Were you Sophie Chotek’s husband?
IQ2: Were you the eponymous hero of a book by Munro Leaf?
IQ3: Were you the hero of a series of kids’ books by Walter Brooks?

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IQs:

  1. Were you a famed castrato nicknamed after cereal?
  2. Did you produce a series of encyclopedias with Mr. Wagnall?
  3. Were you married to Lee Majors?
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IQ1: Do gamers try to survive 5 nights in your restaurant?
IQ2: Did you declare “Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope”? (I’m sure he really meant this message board)
IQ3: According to schoolyard-altered lyrics, was your family started when you farted?

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Dunno, not Ferdinand and not Artemis Fowl.

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Not Frank N. Barry, not Mr. Funk and not Farrah Fawcett.

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Dunno x3.

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  1. Did Michael Emerson play you on Person of Interest?
  2. Are you the mother of Peter, Paige and Jason and the husband of Roger in a long-running comic strip?
  3. Were you known as “The Lost Sister of the Wyoming”?
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#1 was Farinelli. Correct on the others.

DQ: Real?

Welcome back, kitap! How are you feeling?

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Freddy Fazbear, one of the villains in the video game Five Nights at Freddy’s
Freewheelin’ Franklin - from the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers comix.
Uncle Fester - first grade flashback “♪The Addams family started/when Uncle Fester farted/they all became {slur that 70s kids threw about freely deleted}/ The Addams Family♪”

DQ: Male?
DQ First name starts with F?
Holding one DQ

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IQs:

  1. Were you in love with Dudley Do-right’s Horse?
  2. Are you the title character of a decades-long comic strip that is being retired?
  3. Did you write A Coney Island of the Mind?
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Pretty good, thanks! I had a head and neck CAT scan (and suffered through huge amounts of paperwork first) to see if the cancer had reached my neck and head. Big fat nope!!! Good news before starting my second round of chemo!

And wait…he was named after cereal???

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Archduke Franz Ferdinand
correct
Freddy the Pig


DQ: Real?
Two DQs reserved.


IQ1: Were you a black member of Our Gang?
IQ2: Were you a white member of Our Gang?
IQ3: Were you burned alive by the parents of children you’d killed?

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There are worse fates, I suppose.

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Not Finch or the other Finch; dunno the third.

Welcome back, kitap!

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Dunno, not Forth and dunno.