Botticelli - October 2013

Thread Games
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IQs

  1. Would you gladly pay me Tuesday for a hamburger today?
  2. Are you the daughter of the Queen of the Amazons?
  3. Did you draw a zany cartoon woodpecker?
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I am neither J Wellington Wimpy, Wonder Woman, nor Walter Lantz.

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Congratulations SCAdian!

IQ1: Did you succeed the man who succeeded your father?
IQ2: Does a monument in your honour of your victories overlook the river Forth?
IQ3: Did you hear the learn’d astronomer?

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DQ.
Not William Wallace.
DQ.

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Just realised that fanganga’s IQ1 must be George W Bush. Oh, well…

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Nicely done, SCAdian! So we’re on to W?

IQ1: Are you one of Robin Hood’s merry men?
IQ2: Are you Peter Pan’s gal-pal?
IQ3: Did you help create Apple Computers?

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Neither Will Scarlet, Wendy Darling, nor Steve Wozniak.

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1: Was indeed President W
2: Was indeed William Wallace
3: Then you are not Walt Whitman

DQ: Are you real?

IQ1: Did a Whitman fan call you his “other favorite W.W.”?
IQ2: Did Bart Simpson use your name as an alias?
IQ3: Are you the corrupt bishop in the Pillars of the Earth?

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Three DQs.

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1: Walter White, noted Albuquerque chemist and businessman - the Whitman fan was his associate Gale Boetticher.
2: Another President W - Woodrow Wilson, used when Bart answered Mrs. Krabappel’s Lonely Hearts ad.
3: Bishop Waleran

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IQs

  1. Were you a civilian who was given a funeral with full police honors?
  2. Is your secret identity Philbert Desinex?
  3. Did you openly loathe working with Barbra Streisand in Hello Dolly?
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Way to go, SCAdian! If I’d ever heard of Xanthippe I’d long ago forgotten her.

Pain is weakness leaving the body… er, the Botticelli thread.

On to W, then.

IQs:

Did you make money fishing, distilling whiskey and growing hemp, among other things?
Did you never again sleep in the room where your husband died?
Do you take lots of artsy photos of your dogs?

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IQ1: Did you command troops in Vietnam?
IQ2: Is a beef dish named in your honor?

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Oops - missed fanganga’s DQ this morning.
W

  1. Fictional
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Three DQs.

DQ.
Not … Mrs Winchester?
Not William Wegman.

Neither General Westmoreland nor the Duke of Wellington.

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#1 was Jack Webb, honored because of the respect police received from the Dragnet series.
#2 was underground comix hero Wonder Warthog.
#3 was co-star Walter Matthau.

  1. Is W the initial of your last name?
  2. Male?
  3. From literature?
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W

  1. Fictional
  2. W is the initial of my last name
  3. Male
  4. Not from literature
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DQ1: Are you depicted as living on 20th or 21st Century Earth?
DQ2: Have you appeared in multiple works?
DQ3: reserved for now

IQ1: Are you the principal tormentee of Dennis the Menace?
IQ2: Are you the principal tormentee of the other Dennis the Menace?
IQ3: Are you an important figure within the Umbrella Corporation?

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Not George Wilson.
DQ.
DQ.

W

  1. Fictional
  2. W is the initial of my last name
  3. Male
  4. Not from literature
  5. Not depicted as living on 20th- or 21st-century Earth
  6. Have appeared in multiple works

fanganga has one reserved DQ.

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Given my upbringing, I had 1 and 2 in a different order from you. George Wilson was indeed one of them, the other was ** Walter the Softy**.
Number 3 was Alfred Wesker