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Re: Game #122 -- Homage to Mutt and Jeff

#76 Post by Weyoun » Tue Feb 17, 2009 10:54 pm

I kept trying to find Boss Tweed, but it's Shannon Tweed of PLAYBOY and Gene Simmons fame. Shannon Lucid plus Thurlow Weed.

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#77 Post by Weyoun » Tue Feb 17, 2009 11:02 pm

BTW, is it possible that CONNECTICUT points toward Roger S-Herman, making Martha M-Oxley a famous VICTIM?

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#78 Post by NellyLunatic1980 » Wed Feb 18, 2009 7:04 am

New compilation...


MATCHES
55. FATHER DAMIEN DE VEUSTER + 86. TOM HORN = DAMIEN THORN (Omen)
31. MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE + 77. TERI HATCHER = MARGARET THATCHER (Iron)
69. MATT GROENING + 85. LEOPOLD AUER = MATT LAUER (Today)
54. RONALD DWORKIN + 7. GARY OLDMAN = RONALD GOLDMAN (OJ)
32. PETER ABELARD + 95. DARIUS RUCKER = (Management)
36. ELMER + 3. STEVE PERRY = ELMER SPERRY (Compass)
56. LUCRETIA GARFIELD + 5. MEL OTT = LUCRETIA MOTT (Seneca)
21. CLYDE TOMBAUGH + 34. TED OLSON = CLYDE TOLSON (Hoover)
80. BARRY COMMONER + 38. STEVE ADLER = BARRY SADLER (Green)
28. BOXCAR WILLIE + 64. ALDRICH AMES = WILLIE AAMES (Eight)
37. SUZAN-LORI PARKS + 90. NICHOLAS BIDDLE = NICHOLAS SPARKS (Notebook)
9. CHARLES DEMUTH + 26. CHARLES OLSON = CHARLES COLSON (Prison)
83. MILTON FRIEDMAN + 14. BOO RADLEY = MILTON BRADLEY (Life)
39. JOHN BARDEEN + 67. CAROL HANEY = JOHN CHANEY (Temple)
53. DARREN ARONOFSKY + 84. STEPHEN HARPER = DARREN SHARPER (Vikings)
17. MAX WEBER + 82. CHARLES LELAND = MAX CLELAND (Georgia)
96. NIELS BOHR + 59. GEORGE ADE = NIELS GADE (Denmark)
6. GLENN SEABORG + 98. FERNANDO REY = GLENN FREY (Eagles)
88. WILLIAM BAFFIN + 47. SHERWOOD ANDERSON = WILLIAM SANDERSON (Larry)
15. ALEX HALEY + 35. CONRAD HILTON = ALEX CHILTON (Box Top)
57. SHANNON LUCID + 75. THURLOW WEED = SHANNON TWEED (Playboy)
2. ROGER WILLIAMS + 70. SUSAN HERMAN = ROGER SHERMAN (Connecticut)
13. MARTHA STEWART + 99. MICHAEL OXLEY = MARTHA MOXLEY (Victim)
100. ELIZABETH GASKELL + 65. BRAD OWEN = ELIZABETH BOWEN (Heart)
8. GEORGE SANTAYANA + 87. CATHY LINTON = GEORGE CLINTON (Funk)
43. RUSSELL HONORE + 18. CHRISTOPHER ROUSE = RUSSELL CROUSE (Lindsay)
93. THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH + 45. SEAN AVERY = THOMAS SAVERY (Engine)


PARTIALLY MATCHED UP:
11. STAFFORD CRIPPS = SCRIPPS (Newspaper)
23. WILLIAM HALE = WHALE (Frankenstein)
27. FANNY BLANKERS-KOEN (Ziegfeld) (We need a B. Rice?)
(NEED A RAY) + 94. WALTER ALSTON = RAY WALSTON (Yankees)
(NEED A RONALD) + 29. SYLVIA EARLE = RONALD SEARLE (Trinian)
1. JANE AUSTEN + 63. FREDDIE ROMAN = JANE FROMAN (?????)


"DEFINITES" THAT WE HAVEN'T MATCHED UP YET (OR PARTIALLY MATCHED)
4. WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN
10. JUDITH JAMISON
12. JOE HILL
20. CARL ELLER
25. SAMUEL TUCKER
40. FRED LYNN
41. RICHARD EGAN
42. SAMMY GRAVANO
44. SANFORD DOLE
62. ARTHUR WELLESLEY
66. BARBARA TUCHMAN
71. MARY ROBERTS RINEHART
76. EMANUEL SWEDENBOURG


UNMATCHED KEYWORDS
ASSOCIATED WORDS
Farewell
Saturday
CNN
MGM
Hayward
Fifty-Five
Hood
Brooklyn
Airplane
Trolley
Drive-In
Anarchy
Design
Method
Substance
Gold
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UNSOLVED, OR QUESTION-MARKED:

16. This popular novelist was best known for chronicles of men who rose from rags to riches, but she also wrote historical fiction about such diverse figures as an evangelist, a cardinal, and a conqueror.
Edne Ferber?

19. Known for her fun and affordable clothing, this fashion designer launched her career in the early 1980s by inviting every fashion editor in New York to her first show – which she held in her apartment.
Donna Karan?

22. This comedienne has said of her late-night talk show, "The worse the guests are, the more pathetic they are, the funnier the show is.” (Well, if that doesn’t attract people, nothing will….)
Chelsea Handler? Joan Rivers?

24. It took 29 years, and eleven tries, before this Congressman finally succeeded in his efforts to lower the voting age to eighteen.

30. This old-time stage actress had her greatest triumph in the 1920s as an oriental brothel keeper named Mother Goddam, and stuck around long enough to play the Nurse to Judith Anderson’s Medea.

33. In 1821, proper New Yorkers were shocked when this reformer opened an educational institute where women could gain instruction in such “male” subjects as mathematics and physics.
Horace Mann?

46. All of the networks took note when, after a lengthy hiatus, this newsman returned to the airwaves on February 27, 2007.
Bob Woodruff?

48. If you ever feel like a rat running through a maze, you can thank this behavioral psychologists – not so much for the feeling as for the metaphor.
Erick Erickson? B.F. Skinner? John Watson?

49. This composer provided the music for seven Broadway shows, including one highly unusual – and highly successful – blend of U.S. political satire and Irish fantasy.
Burton Lane?

50. The Manhattan newspaper office designed by this architect in 1929 became the model for the Daily Planet building in the Superman comics.
William Van Alen?

51. On the day her 13 year-old daughter was killed, this activist vowed “to fight to make this needless homicide count for something positive in the years ahead.” And she has.
Debra Bolton? Candace Lightner?

52. After 30 years as a lawyer and aide to a major mogul, this business executive suddenly found himself – at the age of 76 – a television personality.

58. Of all current NCAA basketball coaches with over twenty years experience, he has the highest winning percentage.
Mike Krzyzewski? Roy Williams?

60. This British physiologist was the first scientist to measure sap flow in plants, the first to measure blood pressure, and the first to demonstrate the dangers of breathing stale air.
William Harvey? Robert Hooke?

61. This jazz pianist would often play ahead of the beat with his right hand while holding to the beat with his left. (He is also the composer of one of the most popular love ballads of all time.)

68. He had his best-known victory – and his best known defeat – more than two decades after his stint as the #1 ranked tennis player in the world.
Bobby Riggs?

72. His road to media moguldom began in the 1960s, when he became head of children’s programming for ABC.

73. In the late 1960s, this inventor discovered the benefits of increasing the volume of high-frequency sounds during recording and correspondingly reducing them during playback.
Dolby? Robert Moog?

74. Originally a member of a family vocal group, this singer had his biggest solo hit with a song that was introduced on Broadway by Robert Preston and Mary Martin. (Fans of later night television remember him for something else entirely.)
Ed Ames?

78. A year after achieving his only win in the Indianapolis 500, this driver crashed during practice and was unable to compete. (But don’t worry: he has driven in every Indy since.)

79. During the Mexican War, this American general had considerably less trouble establishing control over New Mexico than he had establishing control over John C. Frémont.
Stephen Kearny? Winfield Scott? Zachary Taylor?

81. Winner of five James Beard Awards, this chef currently has five restaurants in New York, two in Las Vegas, two in Atlanta, and one each in Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and the Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut. (And if that didn’t keep him busy enough, he’s got a few other projects as well.)
David Burke?

89. The 12-film partnership between this burly, mustachioed British character actor and his shorter, clean-shaven foil began with a Hitchcock classic.
Leo G. Carroll?

91. In addition to his work as columnist and editor for the Louisville Courier-Journal, this journalist won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1934 study of the American presidency.

92. The night before he died, Martin Luther King, Jr., called this fellow civil rights leader “the best friend I have in the world.”

97. Putting his Utilitarian theories into practice, this British philosopher famously subjected his son to a rigorous, systematic education from the age of three.
James Mill?

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#79 Post by NellyLunatic1980 » Wed Feb 18, 2009 7:11 am

There were a lot of possibilities for #92, bit I believe the correct answer is RALPH ABERNATHY.

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#80 Post by NellyLunatic1980 » Wed Feb 18, 2009 7:18 am

#79 has to be STEPHEN KEARNY because it goes with SAMUEL TUCKER to make STEPHEN STUCKER, who played the goofy and flamboyant air traffic controller in "Airplane!"

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#81 Post by NellyLunatic1980 » Wed Feb 18, 2009 7:21 am

The Jane Froman biopic "With a Song in My Heart" starred Susan Hayward.

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#82 Post by ne1410s » Wed Feb 18, 2009 8:18 am

Could #52 be Trump's guy who sits with Trump (in the apprentice) in the boardroom? No clue on name.
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#83 Post by Weyoun » Wed Feb 18, 2009 8:23 am

it is the trump guy, I mentioned him in the first day. I think his name is George.

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#84 Post by mcd1400de » Wed Feb 18, 2009 8:29 am

74. Originally a member of a family vocal group, this singer had his biggest solo hit with a song that was introduced on Broadway by Robert Preston and Mary Martin. (Fans of later night television remember him for something else entirely.)
Ed Ames?

Definitely ED AMES. The song is "My Cup Runneth Over", from IDo, IDo.
Bazinga!

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#85 Post by Weyoun » Wed Feb 18, 2009 8:30 am

Sanford meisner has a famous acting METHOD. The tv guy is Michael Eisner.

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#86 Post by Carmelo Anthony » Wed Feb 18, 2009 8:54 am

Weyoun wrote:it is the trump guy, I mentioned him in the first day. I think his name is George.
George Ross, who name can make Gross.
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#87 Post by NellyLunatic1980 » Wed Feb 18, 2009 9:12 am

#22 has to be CHELSEA HANDLER because her name can make Chandler.

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#88 Post by Weyoun » Wed Feb 18, 2009 9:18 am

Dolby is the Ray we need.

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#89 Post by NellyLunatic1980 » Wed Feb 18, 2009 9:31 am

#91 is the H. Agar we need.

HERBERT AGAR wrote "The People's Choice".

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#90 Post by NellyLunatic1980 » Wed Feb 18, 2009 9:38 am

I'm willing to bet millions to muffins that #78 is David Letterman's team's driver, BUDDY RICE. He gives us the Brice we need to make Fanny Brice.

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#91 Post by Weyoun » Wed Feb 18, 2009 9:45 am

errol garner is pretty famous pianist - I have his concert by the sea on my iPod. That plus fred Lynn gets us in like errol flynn of robin HOOD.

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#92 Post by silverscreenselect » Wed Feb 18, 2009 10:05 am

NellyLunatic1980 wrote:30. This old-time stage actress had her greatest triumph in the 1920s as an oriental brothel keeper named Mother Goddam, and stuck around long enough to play the Nurse to Judith Anderson’s Medea.
I cheated on this one, but I had a feeling it would have floated around forever. This is Florence Reed, who goes with Arthur Wellesley to make Arthur Freed, producer of many of the classic MGM musicals of the 40s and 50s.
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#93 Post by franktangredi » Wed Feb 18, 2009 10:13 am

silverscreenselect wrote:
NellyLunatic1980 wrote:30. This old-time stage actress had her greatest triumph in the 1920s as an oriental brothel keeper named Mother Goddam, and stuck around long enough to play the Nurse to Judith Anderson’s Medea.
I cheated on this one, but I had a feeling it would have floated around forever. This is Florence Reed, who goes with Arthur Wellesley to make Arthur Freed, producer of many of the classic MGM musicals of the 40s and 50s.
I can usually count on Melly to get these old-time actors, but unfortunately, she's out of commission.

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#94 Post by Weyoun » Wed Feb 18, 2009 10:36 am

We should just put James Mill with Whale. JS Mill's upbringing is pretty famous.

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#95 Post by smilergrogan » Wed Feb 18, 2009 11:23 am

Remember there are three triples and one single. The single must be a one-name person like Cher. The triples likely have a first and middle name, or possibly two people combine an initial and last name to make a long last name (like S. Hake + S. Peare).

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#96 Post by smilergrogan » Wed Feb 18, 2009 11:50 am

By the way, I don't get the connection to Mutt and Jeff. Are there famous people named M. Utt and J. Eff, or other characters in Mutt and Jeff whose names worked like that?

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#97 Post by NellyLunatic1980 » Wed Feb 18, 2009 11:58 am

Ralph Abernathy and Burton Lane make Ralph Blane, who co-wrote "The Trolley Song". Y'know, the one Judy Garland sang in "Meet Me in St. Louis". Clang, clang, clang went the trolley.

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#98 Post by NellyLunatic1980 » Wed Feb 18, 2009 12:01 pm

smilergrogan wrote:By the way, I don't get the connection to Mutt and Jeff. Are there famous people named M. Utt and J. Eff, or other characters in Mutt and Jeff whose names worked like that?
The connection is that a short last name becomes a longer last name. Mutt was tall and Jeff was short.

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#99 Post by franktangredi » Wed Feb 18, 2009 12:06 pm

NellyLunatic1980 wrote:
smilergrogan wrote:By the way, I don't get the connection to Mutt and Jeff. Are there famous people named M. Utt and J. Eff, or other characters in Mutt and Jeff whose names worked like that?
The connection is that a short last name becomes a longer last name. Mutt was tall and Jeff was short.
I was thinking more like the combination of the shortened first name and the full-length last name. But it doesn't matter. I was just trying not to make the name too obvious. Smiler is too good at reading my mind on these.

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#100 Post by silverscreenselect » Wed Feb 18, 2009 12:27 pm

Judith Regan must go with OJ. The more I think of it, Ronald Goldman is usually referred to as Ron Goldman, and we need a Ronald for Ronald Searle.

It's just that the link between that pairing and OJ was so good that I assumed that's what Frank wanted, until someone else came up with Judith Regan.
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