# Botticelli September 2011 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [September 4, 2011, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2011/595171 "2011-09-04T16:52:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 376
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2011, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2011/595171/376 "2011-09-18T04:04:49Z")
> [@Win9X - What happens when you \*open\* a program?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/win9x-what-happens-when-you-open-a-program/71578/7): > > IQ: Were you Eddie Van Halen’s first choice to replace David Lee Roth as vocalist for Van Halen? (I’ll tell you now: Despite the ‘S’, the answer is not Sammy Hagar) > [@AppallingGael](#): > > No, I’m not Bob Seger? Nope, you are not Patty Smyth of Scandal. She was friends with Eddie’s then-wife Valerie Bertinelli. She turned down the offer as she was 8 months pregnant. > [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > IQ: Were you David Lee Roth’s choice to replace Eddie Van Halen as guitarist? > [@AppallingGael](#): > > No, I am not Carlos Santana? No again. You are not former Frank Zappa guitarist Steve Vai, who played lead guitar on Roth’s first 2 solo albums. Trying to figure out the “broadly speaking” part of working in the arts DQ1: Are you involved in architecture? DQ2: Was your work in the arts supportive as opposed to creative? For example, a manager rather than a performer, or a patron of the arts rather than an artist? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/botticelli-september-2011/595171)._