Botticelli November 2011

Thread Games
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Previous thread: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=626545

New month, new thread.

Next up:

P

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IQ: Were you a writer and amateur sportsman?
IQ: Did the actor who played you in a sitcom from the 80’s die, so your character also died?
IQ: Were you a female country artist?

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IQ1: Did a young, then-unknown Willie Nelson write the hit song you’re best known for?
IQ2: Did you allegedly ask for a day off due to a headache, in 1925, and never get your job back?
IQ3: Were you known for the comedy catch phrase, “Picky, picky, picky”?

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IQ1: Don’t know, take a DQ.
IQ2: No, I am not “Coach” Ernie Pantuso from Cheers
IQ3: So many to pick from, but, no I am not Dolly Parton

IQ1: No, I am not Patsy Cline, best known for the Nelson-penned “Crazy”
Take DQs for the other 2.

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Wally Pipp, first baseman of the Yankees, allegedly asked for a day off due to a headache. His replacement, Lou Gehrig, played the next 2,130 games at first base.
Comedian Pat Paulsen used that catchphrase on shows like “The Smothers Brothers” variety show (“Some people say we at the Gigantic Corporation of America have posioned the environment. Some say we discriminate against women and minorities. Some say we bust unions and pay our workers starvation wages. Picky, picky, picky…”)
DQ1: Are you male?

DQ2: Are you a real person?

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Did you play with the Atomic Rooster and the Crazy World of Arthur Brown?
Did you sell the Beatles the mellotron they used on “Strawberry Fields Forever,” after using the instrument on many of your own band’s songs?
Were you the only major role ever played by Ken Weatherwax?

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Yes
Yes

No, I am not ELP and Asia drummer Carl Palmer.
2 more DQs for the other 2.

Recap:
P

  1. Male
  2. Real person
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Ken Weatherwax was a child actor whose only major role was Puggsley Addams, on the Sixties TV series.

And Michael Pinder of the Moody Blues sold mellotrons as well as playing them.
DQ: Does your last name start with “P”?

DQ: Were you born after 1900?

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You were not George Plimpton, who trained in many different professional sports, then wrote books about his experiences.

You were not Patsy Cline, which someone else also ruled out.
DQ: Are you dead?

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No
Yes

No

Recap:
P

  1. Male
  2. Real person
  3. Last name does not start with ‘P’
  4. Born after 1900
  5. Not dead
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IQ: Were you a part of the singing duo known as Tom and Jerry in 1957?
IQ: Are you a country singer from Texas known for his recent album “What I’m For”?
IQ: Did you used to own an American League baseball team?

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Were you the first person to write “A little learning is a dangerous thing”?
Did your career inspire the Broadway musical that gave us the song “Put On a Happy Face”?
Did your college classmate Nathaniel hawthorne write our authorized biography?

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IQ: Did you claim to be Jezebel in hell?

IQ: Was an apologetic catchphrase directed to a character you played?

IQ: Does a Beavis and Butt-head gag use circular reasoning to address the question of why you’re famous?

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#1 - No, I am not Paul Simon.
Take 2 DQs for the others

#2 - No, I am not Elvis Presley, whose induction into the Army inspired Bye Bye Birdie, for which I played saxophone in the orchestra pit my senior year of high school.
Take 2 DQs for the other 2

#1 - I don’t know. Take a DQ
#2 - (Guess) - I am not Bernadette Peters who starred with Steve Martin in The Jerk, who may have uttered his “Excuuuuuuuuuuuse me” catchphrase in the film?
#3 No, I not Tom Petty, who is on TV because he’s famous, and is famous because he’s on TV, and is on TV because he’s famous, etc.

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You are not Pat Green, singer of the hit song “Let Me” on the album “What I’m For.”

You are not “Peter O’Malley, former Dodgers owner, seeks to run team again.”

DQ: Are you an actor?

DQ: Are you a politician?

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[QUOTE=Dolores Reborn]

You are not Peter O’Malley
[/QUOTE]

Actually, the Dodgers are in the National League. Not that I would have gotten it right anyway.

I have acted, but that is not what I am famous for.

No

Recap:
P

  1. Male
  2. Real person
  3. Last name does not start with ‘P’
  4. Born after 1900
  5. Not dead
  6. Have acted, but am not famous for being an actor
  7. Not a politician
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Franklin Pierce’s biography was written by his Bowdoin classmate Nathaniel Hawthorne

And Alexander Pope wrote “A Little learning is a dangerous thing.”
DQ: Do you work in some field of show business?

DQ: Are you American?

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Yes
Yes

Recap:
‘P’

  1. Male
  2. Real person
  3. Last name does not start with ‘P’
  4. Born after 1900
  5. Not dead
  6. Have acted, but not famous for being an actor
  7. Not a politician
  8. Work in some field of show business
  9. American
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Are you a Nobel Peace Prize winner, world leader and World War 1 aviator whom everyone called “Mike”?
Are you a sports superstar who died of a heart attack while playing a pickup shirts-and-skins basketball games with Christian conservative leader James Dobson?
Prior to the 20th century, were you generally considered the ONLY great English composer of classical music?

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Oops! Sorry about that.