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19 January 2007

I Botticelli you! Thinking of a person whose last name begins with H.→[More:]

This is a good game to play while waiting for phone calls to be returned.
post by: mudpuppie at: 16:34 | 123 comments
Real or fictional?
posted by matildaben 19 January | 16:38
are you a Scottish 18th C philosopher?
posted by gaspode 19 January | 16:39
Are you a two time US Senator?
posted by youngergirl44 19 January | 16:39
Were you a comedian who was tragically murdered by your wife?
posted by muddgirl 19 January | 16:40
Are you a Nabokov protagonist?
posted by box 19 January | 16:40
Are you a former US Senator with an ugly indoor sports stadium named after you?
posted by danf 19 January | 16:40
Are you a bombastic, not-very-funny old British writer?
posted by Miko 19 January | 16:41
Oh, sorry: Rules here.

Not Hume, Hagel, Hartman.

(May have gotten 'pode's wrong. And I'm not sure Hagel is a two-timer -- but he's been there at least two, no?)

Preview: Not Humbert Humbert.

Danf and miko stumped me.
posted by mudpuppie 19 January | 16:43
you were right, I was thinking of Hume.

Are you a British comedian known for chasing scantily clad ladies?
posted by gaspode 19 January | 16:44
Sorry, I did it wrong. The way we always did it was "male or female, living or dead, real or fictional", etc.... I should have gone with my original, Nabokov inclination.
posted by matildaben 19 January | 16:45
Not Benny Hill. (Thanks, now I have the song stuck in my head.)
posted by mudpuppie 19 January | 16:45
Heh.

Were you the first governer of MA?
posted by gaspode 19 January | 16:46
Are you an ex-mobster-turned-author?
posted by box 19 January | 16:47
OK mudpuppie, is this person still alive?
posted by danf 19 January | 16:48
I probably didn't describe Hitchens well. But anyway, are you male or female?
posted by Miko 19 January | 16:49
I thought the "City on a Hill" guy was the first governor of MA, but his last name is Winthrop, so I must be wrong.

Not Henry "Goodfella" Hill, box.

Danf, no.

Miko: male.
posted by mudpuppie 19 January | 16:50
Are you a family doctor with a trademark laugh?
posted by muddgirl 19 January | 16:50
oh, my guess was Hubert Horatio Humphrey
posted by danf 19 January | 16:50
John Hancock, pups.

Are you american?
posted by gaspode 19 January | 16:50
Are you a British film director famous for his suspense movies?
posted by Atom Eyes 19 January | 16:51
A dead male. . .OK are you the father of medicine, to which all aspiring docs need to take an oath?
posted by danf 19 January | 16:52
Crap, should have specified a state for my senator...
posted by youngergirl44 19 January | 16:52
Did you build a wooden boat?
posted by box 19 January | 16:52
Muddgirl: Yes/No.

'pode: Yes.

Atom Eyes: Not Hitchcock.

Danf, not Hippocrates.

Box, not Tor Heyerdahl (spelling).
posted by mudpuppie 19 January | 16:54
drat, i thought we had a lovely IRC channel for this
posted by cortex 19 January | 16:55
We do, but I figured people wouldn't go in there at work.
posted by mudpuppie 19 January | 16:55
I was thinking of Dr. Hibbel (from the Simpsons), but Dr. Huxtable (from the Cosby Show) would also have worked.

Did you die of natural causes?
posted by muddgirl 19 January | 16:56
Did you basically twiddle your thumbs in the White House while the country slid into Depression?
posted by danf 19 January | 16:56
danf: My guess was HHH too!
posted by youngergirl44 19 January | 16:56
Did you have sex with a horse?
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane 19 January | 16:57
Are you an manual laborer and eventual labor organizer and songwriter who was executed for a crime he may not have committed, and then immortalized in a song made famous by Joan Baez and Pete Seeger?
posted by Miko 19 January | 16:58
(damn, I meant Dr. Hibert)
posted by muddgirl 19 January | 16:58
Muddgirl: Yes.

Danf, not Herbert Hoover.

gnfti: really?
posted by mudpuppie 19 January | 16:59
mudpuppie: yes, really.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane 19 January | 17:00
Ack, Miko! It's that song about Joe, but I can't remember his last name.

Okay then, gnifti, you get a Yes/No.
posted by mudpuppie 19 January | 17:01
Were you nominated to the Supreme Court by T. Roosevelt?
posted by danf 19 January | 17:03
Fair enough!

Are you a trophied football corpse?
posted by cortex 19 January | 17:04
Were you best known thru the arts?
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane 19 January | 17:05
BTW this is my first time, but I guess this is where I'm supposed to say that I meant Mr Hands.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane 19 January | 17:06
Were you the 29th president of the USA?
posted by gaspode 19 January | 17:06
Are you a fictional sea captain?
posted by muddgirl 19 January | 17:07
Who is Mr. Hands and how did he get his hands on that horse?
posted by cortex 19 January | 17:08
Were you a left-handed musician who used a right-handed guitar?
posted by brina 19 January | 17:10
Oh man, these are hurting my brian. Er, my brain. I don't have a brian.

Danf: Not Oliver Wendell Holmes (and now I have the theme from Green Acres in my head, which was only briefly a relief from the Benny Hill theme).

Cortex: Not Mr. Heisman. (That one took some puzzling.)

gnfti: No. And who had sex with a horse? (On preview, Oh.)

Pode: You see that it wasn't Herbert Hoover, right? Only other one I can think of is Harding, and it's not him either.

Muddgirl: It's not... Captain... Horatio Hornblower?

posted by mudpuppie 19 January | 17:10
Joe Hill...you got it, though!
posted by Miko 19 January | 17:10
Brina: Not George Harrison. (That's a guess.)
posted by mudpuppie 19 January | 17:11
Apparantly, Mr. Hands is this dude.
posted by muddgirl 19 January | 17:11
Were you an imaginary side-kick to Jimmie Stewart?
posted by danf 19 January | 17:12
Not the bunny Harvey, danf.
posted by mudpuppie 19 January | 17:12
mudpuppie, can't find anything supporting George Harrison being left-handed. 'Twas Jimi Hendrix.
posted by brina 19 January | 17:13
(brina has a yes/no question to ask. .she's earned it)
posted by danf 19 January | 17:13
Were you the polar opposite of Dr. Jekyll??
posted by hadjiboy 19 January | 17:14
Were you an entertainer, as defined by Specklet?
posted by brina 19 January | 17:14
Oops--you're supposed to make it hard for her to guess the answers to it too, aren't you:/
posted by hadjiboy 19 January | 17:15
Yes, she has.

So far, dead american guy, died of natural causes, not known through the arts.

Brina: No. (That may have been covered under "arts." If you feel it is, ask another.)

Hadjiboy: Not Mr. Hyde.
posted by mudpuppie 19 January | 17:15
Did you bankroll a movie about Genghis Khan?
posted by box 19 January | 17:15
(That "Yes she has" referred to Brina earning a Yes/No, not to the person in question.)
posted by mudpuppie 19 January | 17:16
Oh dear. I missed that somehow. Were you a real, not fictional person?
posted by brina 19 January | 17:17
Did you have a brief career on the frontier, then milk it back east, doing shows about it?
posted by danf 19 January | 17:17
Were you the author who penned the novel set in that famous French landmark?
posted by muddgirl 19 January | 17:17
Were you the polyfilmic sire of an, ahem, angelic mortician?
posted by cortex 19 January | 17:20
Were you the first person to sign the Declaration of Independence?
posted by brina 19 January | 17:21
I'm not sure if this jives with US personal name convention, but did you murder JFK?
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane 19 January | 17:21
Oops, let me catch up. One of my phone calls came in...
posted by mudpuppie 19 January | 17:21
(I already asked that, brina, kind-of)

(same person different question)
posted by gaspode 19 January | 17:23
Brina: Yes, real person.
Box: Not Howard Hughes. (?)
Danf: Not Wild Bill Hickock. (?)
Mudgirl: Not Victor Hugo. (American!)
Cortex: Angelic mortician... Stumped me.
Brina: Still not John Hancock (who, as it happens, was the first governor of MA!).
Gnfti: Not (Lee Harvey) Oswald.
posted by mudpuppie 19 January | 17:24
Okay, different question, then: Were you a US president who was son of a signer of the Declaration of Independence and grandfather of another US president?
posted by brina 19 January | 17:25
Were you a famous gunfighter who swore you'd die with your boots on, and on dying with bare feet, said "Well I'll be damned"?
posted by danf 19 January | 17:27
Did you once own the Kansas City Chiefs?
posted by box 19 January | 17:28
Film giant John Huston, father of neo-Addams matriarch Angelica "Morticia" Huston. I'm a tremendous pain in the ass, I know.

Did you personally significantly earn/build whatever wealth you had in life?
posted by cortex 19 January | 17:30
Brina, I've run out of presidents starting with H, so you get a yes/no.

Danf, I've also run out of gunfighters starting with H. You get one too.

Box, is that Wayne Huizenga (more spelling?), who currently owns the Dolphins?
posted by mudpuppie 19 January | 17:30
Doc Holliday (of the OK Corral).

Um, did you die before 1875?
posted by danf 19 January | 17:32
Are you an oft-photographed socialite who enjoys going commando?
posted by iconomy 19 January | 17:32
Jeez, cortex, I don't evn know how to answer your Yes/No questions!

If the question was, was my wealth inherited, the answer is No.

Danf, No.
posted by mudpuppie 19 January | 17:32
When this guy owned the Chiefs, Wayne Huizenga was still driving a garbage truck. It's Lamar Hunt.
posted by box 19 January | 17:33
Heh, iconomy. Paris Hilton is not a dead guy!
posted by mudpuppie 19 January | 17:33
William Henry Harrison, mudpuppie.

Hmm. Were you a politician of any sort?
posted by brina 19 January | 17:33
Hey, was he a London-born clergyman who became well-known in the New World?
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane 19 January | 17:33
Fair enough. That was way to convoluted, and you answered the question I meant to ask. :)
posted by cortex 19 January | 17:34
So we've established that it's a dead american guy, right? Please don't make me read this whole thread.
posted by iconomy 19 January | 17:34
Wow--just wow.
posted by hadjiboy 19 January | 17:34
Brina and box have Yes/No questions.

Recap: Dead American guy, not an entertainer/artist, did not die before 1875. Did not inherit wealth. Also, not John Hancock.

Brina, yes, "of a sort."
posted by mudpuppie 19 January | 17:35
Dead. American. Male. Real Person. Died since 1875. Not known from any artistic endeavors.

Did you perfect the practice of Mass Production, and then use some of your wealth to benefit others?

posted by danf 19 January | 17:36
Were you a media magnate?
posted by Miko 19 January | 17:36
Wait. I still have a yes/no?
posted by brina 19 January | 17:37
cortex: next time I write insulting verse about you, remind me to say something about your fondness for cryptic crosswords.

Were you ever a lawyer?
posted by box 19 January | 17:37
danf, not Ford, Henry. (Yes/No for you.)

Miko, not Howard Hughes. Or John Hancock.
posted by mudpuppie 19 January | 17:38
Or Hearst!
posted by mudpuppie 19 January | 17:38
Did you allegedly have an appendicitis attack while trying to escape from a glass box filled with water?
posted by iconomy 19 January | 17:39
Box, yes. (But I had to look that up.)

Ico, not Harry Houdini.
posted by mudpuppie 19 January | 17:39
Wait - to whom was 'John Hancock' directed?
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane 19 January | 17:40
Did you get in trouble for breaking the law to further a President's political agenda?
posted by danf 19 January | 17:41
Wait - to whom was 'John Hancock' directed?

To everyone. It's not him, no matter how many times y'all guess him. :)
posted by mudpuppie 19 January | 17:41
Did you hate John Lennon for some unknown reason?
posted by brina 19 January | 17:41
Did you regret that you had but one life to give for your country?
posted by iconomy 19 January | 17:42
Danf, YES.

I am J. Edgar Hoover!
posted by mudpuppie 19 January | 17:42
Brina too!
posted by mudpuppie 19 January | 17:43
Were you a roving food critic whose name became a cake-makers watchword?
posted by cortex 19 January | 17:43
Ah. I meant John Harvard. Well done danf!
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane 19 January | 17:43
WOW. So awesome! Danf won first.
posted by brina 19 January | 17:43
Oh, hell. Not Duncan Hines, then. Well done.

box: will do
posted by cortex 19 January | 17:44
(I have to disclose. . I was thinking of E. Howard Hunt, but I'll take the win!)

(And Brina was thinking of Hinkley, but I'll share this ill-gotten glory with her/him.)
posted by danf 19 January | 17:44
I'm so glad y'all got it before cortex could get another question off...

(Duncan Hines!)
posted by mudpuppie 19 January | 17:44
I was thinking of J. Edgar Hoover, actually.
posted by brina 19 January | 17:44
OK Brina wins. . I have to be honest. . .
posted by danf 19 January | 17:45
H. R. Haldeman, too.
posted by box 19 January | 17:45
Someone else want to have a go? Brina?

Still sitting by the phone...
posted by mudpuppie 19 January | 17:45
Yep, Haldeman prolly hated John Lennon also.
posted by danf 19 January | 17:46
Alright. I am going to do an easy one today. I am thinking of a person whose name begins with ... the letter S.
posted by brina 19 January | 17:46
I have to work . ..please. . .let me out of here. . I really have to get some work done. . .

OH OK one more. . .

(no really I am outta here. . nice job MP)
posted by danf 19 January | 17:47
Does no one want to play any more?
posted by brina 19 January | 17:50
Sorry, my internet connection burped.

Are you a defensive player for the NE Patriots?
posted by mudpuppie 19 January | 17:51
Did you allegedly get in trouble for spelling the word 'fuck' on a children's television show?

Either way, I'm going home. On the off chance that you don't have an answer, are you female?
posted by box 19 January | 17:51
Does no one want to play any more?

I would if I had the talent for it (Stalin).
posted by hadjiboy 19 January | 17:52
Wow. I don't know either of those. mudpuppie, you get a yes/no.

box, i am female.
posted by brina 19 January | 17:53
I would, brina, but it's time to go home...!
posted by Miko 19 January | 17:53
ahhh! everyone with the going home! why can't you all just work FROM home, like me?
posted by brina 19 January | 17:54
Assante Samuel, Brina. (I know, that was mean.)

Still living?
posted by mudpuppie 19 January | 17:54
I am alive, mudpuppie. And if you all want to do this in #botticelli, i'm in there.
posted by brina 19 January | 17:56
Soupy Sales. Bye for now, folks.

Were you part of a family soul music group?
posted by box 19 January | 17:56
Eep! Finally got an awaited phone call. Have to break for a while. Sorry!
posted by mudpuppie 19 January | 17:59
okay, box. you've left, but i have no idea who you're talking about. all i can think of is the jackson five, which is a j.
posted by brina 19 January | 18:00
meh. if any of you want to start again, i'm in #botticelli ... so far, i'm a living woman.
posted by brina 19 January | 18:07
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