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Isoruku YAMAMOTO

Is the place where Japan builds its cars Yamamotown?

Agamemnon

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Yamamotown?

That's where they make their music.

NERO the fiddler

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Originally posted by Proofreader:

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Yamamotown?

That's where they make their music.

Are you speaking on the record?

Osiris

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Are you speaking on the record?

No, that would be a vinyl sin.

SPARTACUS

That's disconcerting.

SHADRACH

Yes, but groovy.

Horatius

I handed that to you on a platter.

SANJAYA Malakar

Now, don't get the needle!

ABRAHAM

Off the record, but these puns have lives like Methuselah

Was he a player like HANNIBAL?

Stylusticly, yes.

Hannibal LECTOR

You're right, at least according to my friend Vic Trola

ROBESPIERRE

EFREM (Zimbalist, that is, Pick Junior or Senior, as you prefer.)

Isn''t a "Zimbalist" the percussionist in a German band?
MORDRED

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(Zimbalist, that is, Pick Junior or Senior, as you prefer.)

I'll pick Stephanie - but that's just me, I suppose...

Diogenes, who tried to record the honest men he found, right to his vinyl moments.

Oh, and there's little more embarrassing than a Zimbalist with a broken zither in public!

A rare bird - someone we haven't used before:

SIMON BOCCANEGRA

(PS You know Efrem Stephanie?)

If I met her AIDA

Helene Boucher
(French aviatrix)

RHADAMES

(Well, we did have Aida a couple of posts up)

General Carl A. SPAATZ US Army Air Corps

Zoroaster Hmmmm... Is that when Zorro is a star?

Sounds more like sodomy to me

RICHARD the Lionheart

No thanks, I don't want to sodom you, Dilbert.

Did anyone ever Saddam Hussein?
TORQUEMADA

AMERIGO Vespucci

Ossian: real or phony?

NATASHA Fatale, beautiful Russian spy and accomplice of Boris Badenov
(Betcha didn't know she had a last name, did you? Neither did I ! )

Clint EASTWOOD
who would have foiled Natasha and Boris had he ever met them.

Can you name a French Postman? Norman Mailer

DRACO

(That'd be the Athenian legislator, not the stinker-you-love-to-hate in the Harry Potter books)

Orenthal James Simpson

Sorry, Proof, I accidentally overwrote your submission.

It was LONI Anderson, IIRC.

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No, it was Lon Chaney. They are easy to mix up.

Just joking. Loni is right.

Yelberton Abraham Tittle (American futbol player)

Better check my previous post, AL. Arnie was right. It was Loni Anderson, not Lon Chaney. Need an "N" name.

OK, Norbert Wiener

AUDREY TOTTER Anyone remember her?

Maybe Reginald Denny would

Did you mean this
or this?

Or this DENNY MCLAIN?

Being a technophobe, I support Ned Lud.

Been watching some Star Trek recently, so I'm going with DeForest Kelley. Interesting name, that.

He couldn't see De Forest for de Tree http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_Rollins

An actor with a great name to say out loud: EDWARD WOODWARD

Who is made of DERWOOD KIRBY. Anyone remember him?

He probably knew Yves Montand, who was really Ivo Livi.