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Jul 23, 2009 01:43PM
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If it's Pinter, I want a copy of that Sesame Street clip.
James wrote: "If it's Pinter, I want a copy of that Sesame Street clip."oh - am I the only one with a copy of that golden moment?
what!?
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Though I, too, would want a copy of "Pinter on Sesame Street"!
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1. Parents blacklisted.
2. Folk guitarist with Billboard hit.
3. Appeared, with wife, on early season of Sesame Street, as part of a couple reconciling over the word "cooperate."
4. Author of several children's books.
5. Broadway director.
6. Tony Award winner.
7. Oscar winner.
8. Roles have included Sigmund Freud and Inspector Clouseau.
Susanna wrote: "A person:1. Parents blacklisted.
2. Folk guitarist with Billboard hit.
3. Appeared, with wife, on early season of Sesame Street, as part of a couple reconciling over the word "cooperate."
4. Auth..."
I can see his face...o o o o oh
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Susanna - Censored by GoodReads, Crazy Cat Lady
(last edited Jul 23, 2009 02:43PM)
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Your go, James.
(That one was in honor of a friend whose favorite actor is Mr. Arkin.)
I only knew the first and last clue, but I guess that was enough. I'll need to think on mine for a bit. Clues coming soon.
Person.1. Named after a rodent.
2. Blacklisted.
3. Worked for America's third-largest meat processor.
4. Devotee of Gilbert & Sullivan.
Person.1. Named after a rodent.
2. Blacklisted.
3. Worked for America's third-largest meat processor.
4. Devotee of Gilbert & Sullivan.
5. Lived in Uruguay.
Person.1. Named after a rodent.
2. Blacklisted.
3. Worked for America's third-largest meat processor.
4. Devotee of Gilbert & Sullivan.
5. Lived in Uruguay.
6. The Depression forced him into the career he is known for.
Person.1. Named after a rodent.
2. Blacklisted.
3. Worked for America's third-largest meat processor.
4. Devotee of Gilbert & Sullivan.
5. Lived in Uruguay.
6. The Depression forced him into the career he is known for.
7. Close friend of Ira Gershwin.
thank you Marco,Yes it did.
Im always curious to see how American history is portrayed overseas, since most foreigners know more about our politics and history than we do.
Person.1. Named after a rodent.
2. Blacklisted.
3. Worked for America's third-largest meat processor.
4. Devotee of Gilbert & Sullivan.
5. Lived in Uruguay.
6. The Depression forced him into the career he is known for.
7. Close friend of Ira Gershwin.
8. Oscar winner.
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Person.1. Named after a rodent.
2. Blacklisted.
3. Worked for America's third-largest meat processor.
4. Devotee of Gilbert & Sullivan.
5. Lived in Uruguay.
6. The Depression forced him into the career he is known for.
7. Close friend of Ira Gershwin.
8. Oscar winner.
9. His best-known song became the "signature" tune for a famous female singer.
You're thinking along the right lines.....
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Susanna - Censored by GoodReads, Crazy Cat Lady
(last edited Jul 25, 2009 10:03AM)
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If I'm right, please pass my turn to Bettie - I'm about to make a day trip out of town.
Susanna is right.The clues explained:
1. Named after a rodent: Yip is short for Yipsl, the Yiddish word for squirrel.
2. Blacklisted: An ardent socialist, he was blacklisted and never worked in Hollywood again.
3. Worked for America's third-largest meat processor: Worked for Swift & Co.'s Uruguayan meat packing plant fresh out of college.
4. Devotee of Gilbert & Sullivan: was introduced to them by his high school pal Ira Gershwin.
5. Lived in Uruguay (see above)
6. The Depression forced him into the career he is known for: He'd opened an electrical supply company with a college friend. When the Depression bankrupted them, Ira Gershwin told him to start concnetrating on song lyrics.
7. Close friend of Ira Gershwin (see above)
8. Oscar winner: for the "Wizard of Oz."
9. His best-known song became the "signature" tune for a famous female singer: Judy Garland and "Over the Rainbow."
Bettie, seems like Susanna has abdicated to you.
I will also bat and ball this - packing to go to Oslo and only a laptop with intermittent reception due to high mountains to keep me company.Have fun.
Does that mean James is up again?that was a good one James.
Ok. And I promise no more song writers. Let me think for a minute on this.
Person.1. Fought in the War of Spanish Succession.
2. Friend of Jonathan Swift.
3. Published in Addison and Steele's "Tattler."
4. Also a playwright.
Person.1. Fought in the War of Spanish Succession.
2. Friend of Jonathan Swift.
3. Published in Addison and Steele's "Tattler."
4. Also a playwright.
5. Author of what some term the first play written in America.
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Sorry, that clue was mis-written; it's not Benjamin Colman.Person.
1. Fought in the War of Spanish Succession.
2. Friend of Jonathan Swift.
3. Published in Addison and Steele's "Tattler."
4. Also a playwright.
5. Author of what some term the first play PRINTED in America.
6. Spent his latter years in Jamaica.
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Not Royal Tyler.Person.
1. Fought in the War of Spanish Succession.
2. Friend of Jonathan Swift.
3. Published in Addison and Steele's "Tattler."
4. Also a playwright.
5. Author of what some term the first play PRINTED in America.
6. Spent his latter years in Jamaica.
7. Kidnapped by a French pirate, he spent two years in a French jail until there was a prisoner exchange (perhaps for the Bishop of Quebec).
Colonel Robert Hunter it is! Good job, Deirdre.The play, by the by, is Androboros, A Biographical Farce In Three Acts The Senate, The Consistory And The Apotheosis, a satire in which Hunter -- who was then governor of New York -- skewers his main political rivals, including his predecessor, Col. Francis Nicholson.
TBH, I'd never heard of him. It just took a lot internet digging to bring up his name. Even then, I couldn't be sure because there was no mention of a play. I had to go on clues 1,2,6 & 7 to find him!I guess this means I have to set a poser now. So it's a person:
1. An astronomer and mathematician, spent some time as tutor to two aristocratic children.
2. Was the first to make a drawing of the Moon through a telescope.
3. Wrote a treatise on navigation though his most famous work is more geographical than navigational.
4. Was the subject of the first recorded death from skin cancer.
No, I wouldn't expect anyone who wasn't a NYC historian to have heard of him. (And even then, he's obscure.)
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Another clue needed?1. An astronomer and mathematician, spent some time as tutor to two aristocratic children.
2. Was the first to make a drawing of the Moon through a telescope.
3. Wrote a treatise on navigation though his most famous work is more geographical than navigational.
4. Was the subject of the first recorded death from skin cancer.
5.Learnt the Algonquin language.
ANOTHER clue needed? Give me some feedback people.1. An astronomer and mathematician, spent some time as tutor to two aristocratic children.
2. Was the first to make a drawing of the Moon through a telescope.
3. Wrote a treatise on navigation though his most famous work is more geographical than navigational.
4. Was the subject of the first recorded death from skin cancer.
5.Learnt the Algonquin language.
6. On his only voyage, visited Roanoke.
C'mon on now. I've only got a couple of clues left, without giving it away.
Now you could already have got the identity of my man by a bit of well chosen Wikiing but I shall give you another clue:7. Introduced the potato to Britain. This is one of those facts that we all think we know and we are all wrong.
I have just one more clue for you but that will probably not help you much. I shall be most disappointed if nobody makes at least an educated guess at this. He's not ultra famous but he was associated with very famous folk and events and he is fascinating in his own right. And I chose him because of his connections both sides of the Atlantic.
C'mon now. I don't want to have to come up with a new set of clues because you all flunk this. Please!
Ok - Ill biteIs it Thomas Harriot
1. An astronomer and mathematician, spent some time as tutor to two aristocratic children. Earl of Norththumberland
2. Was the first to make a drawing of the Moon through a telescope.1609
3. Wrote a treatise on navigation though his most famous work is more geographical than navigational.
4. Was the subject of the first recorded death from skin cancer.
5.Learnt the Algonquin language.
6. On his only voyage, visited Roanoke 1585 - 86
Thank heavens, Paula, and congratulations! I was seriously dreading having to do the next one as well.1. Thomas Hariot did work for Northumberland but he was mathematics tutor to Walter Ralegh's children.
2. You're right it was 1609, 26th February to be precise. Galileo Galilei usually gets the credit for this but Hariot preceded him by about 4 months.
3. His most famous work was, A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia which was pretty much a prospectus to encourage the English to colonise Virginia. The voyage was organised by Ralegh.
4. The cancer he succumbed to was actually to his nose from using tobacco.
7. Ralegh is generally credited with the introduction of the potato but he didn't actually go on the voyage. It was Hariot who brought it back to Britain.
You can access the Report here:
http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/hariot/har...
If some one else wants to jump in with the next question please do as I m not going to be around for a few days
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A person:
1. Married at fifteen.
2. Father nearly executed for treason.
3. Double Duchess.
4. Encouraged her lover to sleep with his wife, for reasons of state.
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1. Married at fifteen.
2. Father nearly executed for treason.
3. Double Duchess.
4. Encouraged her lover to sleep with his wife, for reasons of state.
5. Remains disturbed during the French Revolution.
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1. Married at fifteen.
2. Father nearly executed for treason.
3. Double Duchess.
4. Encouraged her lover to sleep with his wife, for reasons of state.
5. Remains disturbed during the French Revolution.
6. Took over her late husband's role as governor of Normandy.
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