IQ: Other than that, did you enjoy the play?
Add to the above–“you sockdologizing old man trap!”
Yes, I am Laura Keene, who was starring in Our American Cousin at Ford’s Theatre on the night Abraham Lincoln was shot. In case you didn’t know, Sternvogel’s great-grandfather has a similar claim to “fame”, as he was in the band playing at the Temple of Music when William McKinley was assassinated during his visit to the Pan-American Exposition in 1901.
Your turn, AppallingGael!
Cool; I had not.
Back when “writer” and “painter” were still possibilities, I doubted whether I knew this person, but something in your “yep” said “I expect it to be solved now”.
The new letter is S.
Well done, AppallingGael!!
For those of you desperate for closure, the flautist who was such a strong influence on Ian Anderson was Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Kirk was most famous for simultaneously playing three reed instruments (sax, stritch and manzello) in his mouth at once, as well as doubling on flute, nose flute and various noisemakers and percussion. His flute technique involved grunting, humming and singing while blowing to produce an extremely harsh tone to contrast with the normally sweet tone of the flute.
This was Henry Kissinger, for his boss, President Nixon: Is the Secret Service responsible for keeping the president from getting drunk? - The Straight Dope
Congrats, AG! As a Lincoln buff, I wish I’d gotten that one.
IQ: Did you once date a future coworker but each marry someone else by the time you and your former date got your high-profile jobs?
Thanks. I sense a TV question so I will guess Leslie Stahl is who I am not. If not, then ask a DQ.
BTW, Al Kaline was correct, as were Alexander Kerensky and Duke Kahanamoku.
Congrats to the Gael.
Are you a sportscaster and sportswriter whose brother is a celebrity restaurateur & chef?
Before becoming one of the biggest stars in television history, did you write a gossip column called “Little Old New York”?
Did you start out writing incomprehensible lyrics for King Crimson, and end up writing standard pop lyrics for Cher & Celine Dion?
No, and I can’t come up with a guess that is not embarrassingly hopeless, so take a DQ.
I will take a shot at this.
No, I am not Sid Caesar.
And at this.
No, I am not Jim Steinman.
IQ: Did you write rough and ready poetry about working class people in the 1930s?
No, I am not Carl Sandburg?
Carl Sandburg is exactly who I had in mind.
IQ: Are you an Assyrian monarch?
This was Sandra Day O’Connor, who dated her former Supreme Court colleague William Rehnquist while both were in law school (Stanford, I think).
DQ: Male?
S, S, S… lessee.
IQ: Did you once call your future boss a gorilla and refuse to work with him?
IQ: Did you advise people to “avoid fried meats which angry up the blood”?
No, I am not Sennacherib.