Member posted August 10, 2005 14:12
Irish, Mulligatawney, Mutton, Dinty Moore's (anybody remember Maggie and Jiggs?)...
Anyway.
Continued from
Names :
George
EASTMAN - the Kodak guy
NERO Wolfe (more suitable for this forum than is the Roman Emporer)
Member OLIVER Hardy... I guess I'm cheating, since we called them Laurel and Hardy... oh, well.. born in Georgia, 1892.
Member REDDLEMAN , a.k.a. Diggory Venn, and a wet noodle to the first one to follow the chain of association from "Oliver" to here!
Member Imre
NAGY Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
Member Astronaut John W YOUNG
Member Astronaut and statesman, John H
GLENN Born in Cambridge, Ohio, July 18, 1921. "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Member NIGEL Bruce, Watson to Razzle Bathbone's Sherlock Holmes.
("
Watson , you idiot, it means someone has stolen our tent!!")
Member Gina LOLLOBRIGIDA ..
Member Oliver to Hardy to Laurel and Hardy...to
Member Bud
ABBOTT Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
Member GEORGE PHILIPP
TELEMANN "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Member HENRY VIII ... last letter "y" or "h".. take your pick
Member *singin* "I'm Henery the eighth, I am! Henery the eighth I am I am! I got married to the widow next door. She's been married 7 times before, and every one was a Henery. She wouldn't have a Willy or a Sam. I'm the eighth old man named Henery. Henery the eighth I am, I am. Henery the eighth I am!"
Anyone else know that song? Oh yea, the game . . . hmmm . . . I'll take "Famous People at the Y" for $800, Alex.
YIGAEL YADIN "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Member RALPH NADER Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
Member SERGEI RACHMANINOV "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Member Not always, Hab. How about a person from China?
YAO MING "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Member Clark
GABLE Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
Member ESTHER Williams, the swimmer - or the Biblical one, if you prefer
Member I love Esther Williams! She's my hero!
Who discovered her?
BILLY
ROSE "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Member EUCLID (That's plane enough, I should think!)
Member DAVID ... Michaelangelo's statue, that is.
Member Daniel
DAY-LEWIS Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
Member ADOLPHE SAX "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Member XANADU (I know, that's stretching the rules, but at least it's still Proper)
Member ULYSSES S. Grant...
Member JD
SALINGER Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
Member REBECCA of Sunnybrook Farm
Member ARTHUR (that rascal!)(Anyone remember who his cousin was?)
Member Manfred von RICHTHOFEN ... The Red Baron!
Member John
NAPIER (inventor of logarithms)
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
Member quote:
ARTHUR (that rascal!)(Anyone remember who his cousin was?)
...actually, I was thinking of Babar (the Elephant)
ROGET the^2saurus man
Member THOMAS of Aquinas..
Member Arthur was Samantha's cousin on "Bewitched"..! How funny! I am a librarian, but Babar has never been one of my favorites.. shh-h-h, don't tell anyone.
Member OK, since you mention it - SAMANTHA
Member My first thought was of
Arthur the Aardvark , but I didn't know his cousin's name, if he had one...
Kirstie
ALLEY Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
Member YOGI Berra...of NY Yankees fame...
Member ISAIAH (the prophet)
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
Member HARRY S Truman
Member he has no middle name... just an "S"...
Duchess of
YORK , Sarah Ferguson.
I don't want any more "Y" names!!
Member That's a shame, KHC. My first thought was of John F KENNEDY; my second was Alred KINSEY (the sexual researcher and entomologist[!]) and my third was Grace KELLY.
Taking pity on you, though, how about B.B.
KING ?
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
Member ISABEL ALLENDE"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Member
Member ORLANDO CEPEDA played baseball
Member Was Orlando the ballplayer who said: Baseball been berry berry good to me?? I remember him when he was an Atlanta Brave.. he made one-handed catches.
ANASTASIA , daughter of Nicholas II, Russia.
Member ANTONIN DVORAK
