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| Robert YOUNG... Father Knows Best |
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| Good one, Hab! Mel OTT |
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| Richard HARRIS
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| EDGAR Rice Burroughs.... Tarzan yell! I have no idea how to spell that... |
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| François RABELAIS
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| Alessandro SCARLATTI |
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| IRENE Castle, and Vernon |
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| ESTHER (from the bible)
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| Mstislav ROSTROPOVICH cellist and conductor |
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| HARPO Marx
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| ARTHUR... by Marc Brown, his kiddie lit aardvark. |
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| J Arthur RANK, UK film mogul and rhyming slang inspiration.
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| RANK
Oh, brother.
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| Roger VADIM
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| LINUS in Peanuts.
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| SCHROEDER in Peanuts
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| The Red-Headed Girl from Peanuts
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| LITTLE LULU not from Peanuts |
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| UMBERTO Eco... pass the pasta, please. |
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| Howland OWL, from Pogo |
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| LUCY Back to Peanuts again.
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| Y A TITTLE, former N Y (football) Giants quarterback
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| Prince EDWARD, Duke of Windsor |
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| Yelburton Abraham Tittle.
Now, back to your regularly scheduled programming...
DOUGLAS Adams, hitchhiking through the galaxy |
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| SLARTIBARTFAST Magrathean fjord designer, winner of an award for Norway.
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| More on Slartibartfast:
"...He was woken from a five million year sleep by a final order for a duplicate Earth. Its premature demolition caused a terrible hooha, and a new copy was ordered from the original blueprints."
TRILLIAN - who has been called "the only sane one in the series..."
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| Lillie LANGTRY
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| YOSHIO WATANABE, author
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| EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS\
and btw, where's my nickel? |
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| SNIDELY WHIPLASH (occasionally called "Snively" instead) |
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| Edmond HALLEY
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| I think no one has used YOKO ONO for this thread yet.
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| O. HENRY... I used the last letter of Ono.. |
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| Isoroku YAMAMOTO
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| ORLANDO BLOOM
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| MOLLY {another Bloom) (and no more Yamamotos, please!) |
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| Old YELLER.... a great dog, Fred Gipson's Newbery Award book.. |
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| RICHARD NIXON
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| NEARLY HEADLESS NICK.... Harry Potter |
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| KARKAROV (also HP)
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| VAN CLIBURN, Tchaikovsky pianist (better to recall him in followup than Charles VAN DOREN of Quiz Show "21" opprobrium. He (CvD) just didn't have it in him to be a liar, I guess. |
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