Botticelli September 2023

Thread Games
141

Arrrr, EH! Good job, Matey!
[It be Talk Like A Pirate Day, savvy?]

142

Well, so 'tis, ye poxy swabs!: Yarrr, 'tis International Talk Like a Pirate Day! - #71 by Elendil_s_Heir

And after keelhaulin’ the lot o’ ye, our next letter is bein’

N

And an update, undeservin’ though ye be: Botticelli - the letters we've used so far - #111 by Elendil_s_Heir

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IQs:

Which it being International Talk Like A Pirate Day:

1 Arr! Be ye the swab who played Long John Silver and created the whole “pirate talk” trope, ye dog?
2. Be ye the clever cove who painted the pictures for that seamanlike tale Treasure Island?
3. Ahoy, shipmate! Be’st thou Stephen Maturin’s friend and assistant surgeon, who poisoned himself with quicksilver, thinking he’d got the pox?

144

Dunno, dunno and not Nathaniel.

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  1. Which the first bloke was Robert Newton, who exaggerated his West Country accent for the 1950 film Treasure Island.
  2. The paintin’ cove was N.C. Wyeth, what made the illustrations for the 1911 edition of young Hawkins’ tale o’ adventure.
  3. And ye have remembered Nathaniel Martin’s name, aye.

DQs:

  1. Real?
  2. A bloke?
146

N.

  1. fictional
  2. male
147
  1. Be ye the author of The Borrowers books?
  2. Be ye the author of Moon of Three Rings?
  3. Be ye Ben’s love interest in 'Salem’s Lot?
148

IQs:

  1. Did the San Francisco Chronicle report your 1880 death under the headline “Le Roi est Mort”?
  2. Did you make your fortune selling your oranges, and your, er, :peach:?
  3. Do you sell a line of golf shirts and pants branded with your nickname, “The Great White Shark”?
149

IQs:

  1. Be ye Rex Stout’s o’er-portly ratiocinator?
  2. Did ye scribe The House of Seven Gables?
  3. Did ye play the part of Paris on Mission: Impossible?
150

Dunno, dunno and not Susan Nolan.

Not the Emperor Norton, dunno and not Jack Nicklaus.

Dunno, not Nathaniel Hawthorne and not Leonard Nimoy.

151

Correct on His Imperial Majesty. 2 was Nell Gwyn, the orange-seller and actress who became mistress to King Charles II. 3 was Greg Norman; Jack Nicklaus’ sobriquet was “the Golden Bear”.

DQs:

Appeared after 1960?
Protagonist?

152

#1 was Nero Wolfe.
Correct on the others.

DQ: Last name starts with N?

153

IQs:

  1. Did you write The Integral Trees?
  2. Did you write The Tale of Custard the Dragon?
  3. Were you a 20th century print artist noted for your highly stylized androgynous models against solid color backgrounds?
154

Mary Norton, Andre Norton, Sue Norton.

3 DQs reserved

155

Not Larry Niven, dunno and dunno.

N.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. appeared after 1960
  4. not the protagonist
  5. only name starts with N
156

Correct.
Ogden Nash.
Patrick Nagel.

DQs:

  1. Originally from a work of prose fiction?
  2. Created by an American or Americans?
157

IQs:

  1. Have you had a number of Billboard Hot 100 hits, including “I’m Like A Bird”, “Say It Right”, and “Promiscuous”?
  2. Did you lead your men on a boarding party onto an enemy ship, capture it, then continue across its deck to board and capture a second ship that had become entangled with the first?
  3. Are you arguably the greatest rock drummer of all time; certainly the greatest to come out of Canada?
158

Dunno, not Lord Nelson and dunno.

159

N.

  1. fictional
  2. male
  3. appeared after 1960
  4. not the protagonist
  5. only name starts with N
  6. not originally from a work of prose fiction
  7. created by an American or Americans, and others
160

DQs:

  1. From TV?
  2. Human?