Names II

August 10, 2005, 14:12

haberdasher

Names II

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)

August 10, 2005, 18:48

KHC

OLIVER Hardy... I guess I'm cheating, since we called them Laurel and Hardy... oh, well.. born in Georgia, 1892.

August 10, 2005, 18:58

haberdasher

REDDLEMAN, a.k.a. Diggory Venn, and a wet noodle to the first one to follow the chain of association from "Oliver" to here!

August 11, 2005, 01:01

arnie

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.

August 11, 2005, 03:59

haberdasher

Astronaut John W YOUNG

August 11, 2005, 10:17

Caterwauller

Astronaut and statesman, John H GLENN

Born in Cambridge, Ohio, July 18, 1921.

August 11, 2005, 13:58

haberdasher

NIGEL Bruce, Watson to Razzle Bathbone's Sherlock Holmes.

(" Watson, you idiot, it means someone has stolen our tent!!")

August 11, 2005, 19:41

KHC

Gina LOLLOBRIGIDA..

August 11, 2005, 19:42

KHC

Oliver to Hardy to Laurel and Hardy...to
Thomas Hardy, RETURN OF THE NATIVE, Diggory Venn.
Where's my pasta?

August 12, 2005, 05:06

arnie

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.

August 12, 2005, 13:15

Caterwauller

GEORGE PHILIPP TELEMANN

August 13, 2005, 07:30

haberdasher

Ogden NASH

August 13, 2005, 19:52

KHC

HENRY VIII... last letter "y" or "h".. take your pick

August 13, 2005, 21:49

Caterwauller

*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

August 14, 2005, 00:40

arnie

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.

August 14, 2005, 07:13

Caterwauller

SERGEI RACHMANINOV

August 14, 2005, 08:59

haberdasher

VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY

Why do we always answer a Russian with a Russian?

August 14, 2005, 14:27

Caterwauller

Not always, Hab. How about a person from China?

YAO MING

August 14, 2005, 16:31

arnie

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.

August 14, 2005, 17:34

haberdasher

ESTHER Williams, the swimmer - or the Biblical one, if you prefer

August 14, 2005, 18:00

Caterwauller

I love Esther Williams! She's my hero!

Who discovered her?

BILLY ROSE

August 14, 2005, 18:54

haberdasher

EUCLID (That's plane enough, I should think!)

August 14, 2005, 19:05

KHC

DAVID... Michaelangelo's statue, that is.

August 15, 2005, 02:14

arnie

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.

August 15, 2005, 05:22

Caterwauller

ADOLPHE SAX

August 15, 2005, 18:35

haberdasher

XANADU (I know, that's stretching the rules, but at least it's still Proper)

August 15, 2005, 19:27

KHC

ULYSSES S. Grant...

August 16, 2005, 00:34

arnie

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.

August 16, 2005, 10:20

haberdasher

REBECCA of Sunnybrook Farm

August 18, 2005, 19:06

haberdasher

ARTHUR (that rascal!)(Anyone remember who his cousin was?)

August 18, 2005, 19:46

KHC

Samantha!

August 18, 2005, 19:51

KHC

Manfred von RICHTHOFEN... The Red Baron!

August 19, 2005, 10:35

arnie

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.

August 19, 2005, 17:34

haberdasher

quote:
ARTHUR (that rascal!)(Anyone remember who his cousin was?)

...actually, I was thinking of Babar (the Elephant)

ROGET the^2saurus man

August 19, 2005, 20:38

KHC

THOMAS of Aquinas..

August 19, 2005, 20:40

KHC

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.

August 20, 2005, 10:06

haberdasher

OK, since you mention it -

SAMANTHA

August 20, 2005, 10:49

arnie

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.

August 20, 2005, 20:38

KHC

YOGI Berra...of NY Yankees fame...

August 20, 2005, 23:14

arnie

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.

August 21, 2005, 09:56

haberdasher

HARRY S Truman

I'd ask for someone to pick up with the last letter of his _middle_ name, except that...

August 21, 2005, 19:53

KHC

he has no middle name... just an "S"...

Duchess of YORK, Sarah Ferguson.

I don't want any more "Y" names!!

August 22, 2005, 06:38

arnie

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.

August 22, 2005, 11:24

haberdasher

GARIBALDI

August 22, 2005, 18:22

Caterwauller

ISABEL ALLENDE

August 22, 2005, 18:33

haberdasher

LAURENCE H TRIBE, scholar of U S Constitutional law

August 22, 2005, 18:39

Caterwauller

EDWARD J. DEBARTOLO, mason to mall magnate . . . magnificent!

August 22, 2005, 18:57

haberdasher

ORLANDO CEPEDA played baseball

August 22, 2005, 20:13

KHC

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.