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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 19, 2020 4:25:34 GMT
Oh, of course! I somehow knew I wasn't getting it right. You are waaaay more subtle than that!
R.A. Lafferty -- prolific American science fiction and fantasy writer
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 19, 2020 8:22:46 GMT
Ferdinand de Lesseps - built the Suez canal and later screwed up in Panama
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Post by bjd on Mar 19, 2020 9:16:57 GMT
To be precise, a palefrenier is a groom for horses, not for brides.
Fernandel Comic actor in the first half of the 20th century. You had to be French to appreciate him.
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 19, 2020 11:37:07 GMT
Delphine Seyrig - French actress
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Post by casimira on Mar 19, 2020 11:50:23 GMT
Jane Seymour- British/American actress
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Post by whatagain on Mar 19, 2020 13:02:13 GMT
Elliot Ness. Good cop.
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 19, 2020 13:44:51 GMT
Loch Ness Monster - bad serpent
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 19, 2020 15:45:19 GMT
Lily Munster -- a vampire, she was matriarch of the Munster family
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Post by bjd on Mar 19, 2020 16:38:41 GMT
Stewart Granger American actor born in England
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 19, 2020 17:58:13 GMT
Warren Buffett - American businessman who had $88.9 billion before the stock market crash and is probably still not yet in the poorhouse
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 19, 2020 22:01:30 GMT
Jimmy Buffett -- born on Christmas day 1946, he stepped on a pop-top
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 20, 2020 2:40:19 GMT
Stepin Fetchit - black American vaudeville performer who would probably make an excellent subject for a biopic
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 20, 2020 3:13:29 GMT
Bob Cratchit -- head of the Cratchit family, which includes Tiny Tim, and much put-upon clerk to Ebenezer Scrooge
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 20, 2020 15:36:41 GMT
Margaret Thatcher - iron lady
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Post by whatagain on Mar 20, 2020 17:00:27 GMT
Karen Cheryl. Unlike her name suggests she is a french singer (from the 70 or 80s).
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Post by whatagain on Mar 20, 2020 17:01:22 GMT
Karen Cheryl. Unlike her name suggests she is a french singer (from the 70 or 80s). Do i get bonus since i have. are. And. Cher. In common ?
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 20, 2020 18:22:23 GMT
Oh, I do that quite regularly and nobody has ever offered me bonus points. Karen Cheryl's real name is Isabelle Morizet, which sounds like a librarian or a hairdresser.
Judi Dench - fabulous English actress who disgraced herself last year by appearing in Cats
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 20, 2020 22:48:10 GMT
Ha ~ no one will even mention it, the selfish pigs. I've done some rather brilliant ones in this thread, and even after pointing it out no one cares. But I have to say that yours is particularly impressive, and I'm glad you pointed it out. Oh, I do that quite regularly and nobody has ever offered me bonus points. Ha ~ you?! Please! You mostly do three letters, whereas I, a superior person to you, quite often do five. Not that I'm being competitive about it. Here, I'll now do one with just three ~ Dido -- English singer with a very long real name
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 21, 2020 7:09:33 GMT
Guido da Arezzo - 10th century Benedictine monk who invented musical notation
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Post by whatagain on Mar 21, 2020 8:49:26 GMT
Maarten Maartens. Dutch author writing in english. Died in 1915 and long forgotten. Why did that name come up in my brains that is the question.
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 21, 2020 9:03:34 GMT
Sherpa Tensing- accompanied Sir Edmund Hillary on the 1953 ascent of Everest.
(4 letters)
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Post by onlyMark on Mar 21, 2020 12:25:01 GMT
Tensin Gyatso - the Dalai Lama (6 letters)
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 21, 2020 13:11:39 GMT
Tensin Gyatso - the Dalai Lama (6 letters) I'm afraid it's only 3 letters. Just checked and my Sherpa should be spelled Tenzing. Bad luck.
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Post by mossie on Mar 21, 2020 15:37:04 GMT
Sun Yat-Sen - first president of China
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Post by onlyMark on Mar 21, 2020 15:53:06 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Mar 21, 2020 16:51:24 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 21, 2020 17:09:24 GMT
Jay Gatsby - fictional millionaire who was not particularly happy
(All prizes for extra letters have been suspended until Covid-19 has been eradicated.)
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Post by whatagain on Mar 21, 2020 19:09:57 GMT
Richard Gatling. Invented thd first reluable machinegun. With several tubes rotating, ghe kne on top releasing the bullet. Concept reused for the rotating gun.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 22, 2020 2:39:21 GMT
(All prizes for extra letters have been suspended until Covid-19 has been eradicated.) Yeah, right. I can hear the wrappers rustling and your jaws working through all those Baby Ruths, Goo-Goo Clusters, and Cherry Mashes in the back room right now. Move away from the candy, Kerouac, and no one gets hurt! Ling-Ling -- fictional violinist who practices 40 hours a day
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Post by kerouac2 on Mar 22, 2020 6:34:40 GMT
Robert Ingersoll Ingalls - American steelmaker who built ships for the US Navy
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