Member HOMER ... teller of tales
Member RODNEY DANGERFIELD . . . another teller of tales
"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Member (King)
DAVID 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 DAEDELUS (I mean the Greek, not Stephen!)
Member STEPHEN - the guy whose feast G K Wenceslaus looked out on.
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 N ot aN other N , he said, dancing wildly about!NIJINSKY
Member Is Dornford
YATES known on that side of the Pond? His novels (written between the wars) were very 'British'.
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 Well, if not Yates, then homonym Yeats will do.SUSSMAYR , who had delusions of Mozart...
Member RUBIK , Erno.... squared, cubed, etc.
Member Ted KACZYNSKI , the Unabomber (and, it turns out, a classmate of mine!...)
Member IDI Amin
Member Lee
IACOCCA "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Member Jacques
LAFFITE 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 EFREM Zimbalist, Jr.
Member SEAN PENN 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 NEO "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Member OYMNANDIUS
Member NATHAN LANE
"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Member NATHAN Detroit
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 YANKELOVICH the pollster
Member The nanny? What sort of name is that? There must be tens of thousands of them about.
John
YOUNG , astronaut
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 Simulpost.
Walter
HAGEN , golfer
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 NGUYEN Ton Hoan, former South Vietnam deputy premier
Two birds with one stone
There are actually a lot of people named Nguyen; it's a very common name in Vietnam, I am told.
Member quote:
There are actually a lot of people named Nguyen; it's a very common name in Vietnam, I am told.
It's getting more and more common here, given the number of immigrants we have around. There's lots of Nguyens that have library cards with us.
JIM NABORS "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Member Del SHOFNER (Y A Tittle's favorite receiver)
Member Jean
RACINE 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 Ernest Hemingway So I says to myself, says I, Why is everyone shouting? So I didn't.
Member YIGAEL YADIN Choose either L or N . . .
"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Member LORENZ
Member Viva
ZAPATA 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 ALDOUS HUXLEY wrote about an American Indian (i.e. Brave, New World)
Member I've done too many "Y's" - someone else take this one.
"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Member <sigh> That's what I thought. Oh well, Have we used Brigham
YOUNG yet?
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 So Y joins N on the to-be-shunned list...
GARIBALDI Edit: nope, we did him already.
Gus GRISSOM? Nope, him too.
GARGANTUA? Done
Aha! GRENDEL. Rats. He's been used, too.
GERSHWIN - make it Ira!. Oops, he's a final -N.
Ya know folks, we got ourselves a problem here.
GERONIMO! - used
Groucho, too
I think I'll have to cheat and fall back on
GEORGE III and wait to see if someone will come up with the canonical followup)
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Member 3rd baseman ALEX RODRIGUEZ (3 = III, right?)
"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Member Right!ZZ Top
Member quote:
Originally posted by Caterwauller:3rd baseman ALEX RODRIGUEZ
Right. I was thinking of "3-Dog Night," actually, but this is fine.
PABLO PICASSO - take either the first name or the last name for the next link, as you prefer
Member PS Is that another game? Names with not only alliterative first letters (Marilyn Monroe, Brigitte Bardot) but identical last letters too? I would guess we run out pretty fast.
Member ORLANDO BLOOM(follow the link - it's the Fox Trot series about LOTR) I know we've used it before, but I couldn't resist.
"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Member Bishop
ODO (He was William the Conqueror's half-brother and is believed to have commissioned the Bayeux Tapestry.)
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 ROY
ORBISON (singer of "Blue Bayou" before Linda Ronstadt)
"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Member Jonathan NATENYAHU : commander of the Entebbe hostage rescue operation - was it July 4, 1976? - and was killed during it
Member U THANT -- Former Secretary General of the UN
Member Clint
EASTWOOD 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.
