HOMER... teller of tales

RODNEY DANGERFIELD . . . another teller of tales

(King) DAVID

DAEDELUS (I mean the Greek, not Stephen!)

STEPHEN - the guy whose feast G K Wenceslaus looked out on.

Not aNother N, he said, dancing wildly about!

NIJINSKY

Is Dornford YATES known on that side of the Pond? His novels (written between the wars) were very 'British'.

Well, if not Yates, then homonym Yeats will do.

SUSSMAYR, who had delusions of Mozart...

RUBIK, Erno.... squared, cubed, etc.

Ted KACZYNSKI, the Unabomber (and, it turns out, a classmate of mine!...)

IDI Amin

Tell us the story of the Unabomber!

Lee IACOCCA

ARIEL Sharon :-(

Jacques LAFFITE

EFREM Zimbalist, Jr.

MORRIS the Cat

OYMNANDIUS

23,900 g-hits; spelled with -ias, 270,000 g-hits. Not that it makes any difference for this game, of course.

NATHAN LANE

NATHAN Detroit

The NANNY

YANKELOVICH the pollster

The nanny? What sort of name is that? There must be tens of thousands of them about.

John YOUNG, astronaut

Simulpost.

Walter HAGEN, golfer

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.

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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

Del SHOFNER (Y A Tittle's favorite receiver)

Jean RACINE

Ernest Hemingway So I says to myself, says I, Why is everyone shouting? So I didn't.

YIGAEL YADIN

Choose either L or N . . .

LORENZ

Physicist. Contracted with Fitzgerald. Not a relative.

Viva ZAPATA

ALDOUS HUXLEY wrote about an American Indian (i.e. Brave, New World)

I've done too many "Y's" - someone else take this one.

<sigh> That's what I thought. Oh well, Have we used Brigham YOUNG yet?

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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3rd baseman ALEX RODRIGUEZ

(3 = III, right?)

Right!

ZZ Top

Now, a nice "p"....

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Originally posted by Caterwauller:
3rd baseman ALEX RODRIGUEZ

(3 = III, right?)

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

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.

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.

Bishop ODO
(He was William the Conqueror's half-brother and is believed to have commissioned the Bayeux Tapestry.)

ROY ORBISON
(singer of "Blue Bayou" before Linda Ronstadt)

Jonathan NATENYAHU: commander of the Entebbe hostage rescue operation - was it July 4, 1976? - and was killed during it

U THANT -- Former Secretary General of the UN

Clint EASTWOOD