# Botticelli -- Round 7 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 9, 2007, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-7/418512 "2007-09-09T01:34:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-7/418512/101 "2007-09-11T02:16:36Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] Is your most famous feat known for having an asterisk attached to it? [/QUOTE] No, I am not Roger Maris. ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-7/418512/102 "2007-09-11T02:18:57Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] Do you live La Vida Loca? [/QUOTE] No, I am not Ricky Martin. ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-7/418512/103 "2007-09-11T02:20:46Z")
[QUOTE=panamajack] DQ #2 : Are you an American? [/QUOTE] No, I am not an American (neither north, central nor south). ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-7/418512/104 "2007-09-11T02:30:26Z")
Are you a New York folksinger? ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-7/418512/105 "2007-09-11T02:34:31Z")
[QUOTE=panamajack] Are you a New York folksinger? [/QUOTE] No, I am not Rod MacDonald. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-7/418512/106 "2007-09-11T03:14:43Z")
Less than six hours of sleep, ten and a half hour day, five hours commute. I’m going to have to bow out for a while. Can I give my DQ to someone else to use? (_That_ wasn’t the DQ! 😛 ) ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-7/418512/107 "2007-09-11T11:17:10Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.] Can I give my DQ to someone else to use? (_That_ wasn’t the DQ! 😛 ) [/QUOTE] I suppose. Or you could wait until this evening (I will not be on line much today). ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-7/418512/108 "2007-09-11T12:10:36Z")
Were you a photographer specializing in homosexual imagery? ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-7/418512/109 "2007-09-11T12:16:27Z")
Or perhaps you’re a founding member of a band named for a winged creature? ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-7/418512/110 "2007-09-11T14:29:51Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] Were you a photographer specializing in homosexual imagery? [/QUOTE] No, I am not Robert Mapplethorpe. ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-7/418512/111 "2007-09-11T14:31:04Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] Or perhaps you’re a founding member of a band named for a winged creature? [/QUOTE] No, I am not Randy Meisner. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-7/418512/112 "2007-09-11T17:56:38Z")
Did you climb Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen? ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-7/418512/113 "2007-09-11T18:49:24Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] Did you climb Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen? [/QUOTE] Bingo! (I did this twice - once solo.) I am in fact [Reinhold Messner.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhold_Messner) ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-7/418512/114 "2007-09-11T20:55:56Z")
I figured that “roughly analogous to scuba diving” might describe mountaineering, so I first thought of “that _Seven Years in Tibet_ guy”, only to discover he was Heinrich Harrer. I knew there was a “Reinhart Meisner” or something like that, so I Googled a few names of that sort until I discovered that Reinhold Messner was the man’s true identity. Okay, I’ll be here until about 6:30 EDT tonight. My initials are PC. ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-7/418512/115 "2007-09-11T23:09:10Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] I knew there was a “Reinhart Meisner” or something like that, so I Googled a few names of that sort until I discovered that Reinhold Messner was the man’s true identity. [/QUOTE] Good work. His accomplishments are legendary - I doubt there’s anyone else who’s a strong candidate for “greatest mountaineer in history.” His solo, no-oxygen climb of Mt. Everest definitely falls into the category “Just because he did it doesn’t mean it’s possible.” > [@](#): > > I’ll be here until about 6:30 EDT tonight. My initials are PC. For another game, you should start another thread. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2007, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-7/418512/116 "2007-09-12T02:58:58Z")
[QUOTE=Sternvogel] I figured that “roughly analogous to scuba diving” might describe mountaineering… [/QUOTE] After discovering he is not American I also thought of mountain climbers. But I didn’t have a chance to look for him. Well played, **Sternvogel**! ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2007, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-7/418512/117 "2007-09-13T02:19:11Z")
I know **Sternvogel** has been around today - I saw him post elsewhere - bt I don’t see a round 8 thread. Should we set it up for him? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2007, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-round-7/418512/118 "2007-09-14T16:20:33Z")
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