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Want to play the name game?

Asked by jstringham21 (640points) June 9th, 2008

PnL brought us the Places game, so lets play the name game. Here’s how to play. I name a celebrity of some sort (actors, athletes, singers, presidents, person from history, etc.) first and last name. Your response must start with the first letter of my celbrity’s last name.

Ex – I say Tom Hanks. You then say Henry Ford.

Rules:
1. No back-to-back posts by the same person
2. No googling, unless you get an X or something nearly impossible like that
3. If you see someone crafting a response, wait until they post, then post yours.
4. No repeats. Use CTRL + F to search for used names.

Good Luck!

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I’ll start it off with Henry Ford.

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Frank Sinatra

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Sirhan Sirhan

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Sylvester Stallone

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Sharon Stone

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Sharon Osbourne

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Oprah Winfrey

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Warren Buffett

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Barry White

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Whitney Houston

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Harry Houdini

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Horatio Nelson

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Neil Young

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Yngwie Malmsteen

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Michael Dukakis

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Dweezil Zappa

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Ziggy Marley

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Martin Luther

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Larry King ;)

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Katherine Hepburn

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Hallie Barry

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Bob Saget

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Sarah Iremonger

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Isaac Hayes

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Harry Potter

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that’s a fictional person kid, you lose

Peter Weller

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William Hurt

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Hunter S Thompson

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Tim Burton

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Burt Bacharach

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Bob Newhart

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Nicholas Cage

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Christopher Reeve

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Robert Redford

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Rosie O’Donell

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Orson Wells

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Winnona Rider

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Reba McEntire

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Molly Ringwald

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Ricardo Montalbán

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Michael Romeo (Guitarist of Symphony X)

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Ricky Schroder (here we are…face to face…a couple of silver spoons)

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Selma Hayek

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Hieronymus Bosch

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Barbara Streisand

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Sarah Silverman

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Sara Evans

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Edgar Allan Poe

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Stephen Colbert

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Charleze Theron

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Tipper Gore

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Vivienne Westwood

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Winston Churchill

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Chuck Norris

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No offence, but what’s with you and copying people? First it was a second story, now this?

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Ann Wilson

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@Eambos

No OFFENSE, but can you learn how to spell?

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Natalie Portman

@ jstringham21 – thanks for the shout out in your question description :) (proud and glowing!)

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Phil Schiller

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Samuel L. Jackson

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Ritchie Sambora

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Superman

One word names aren’t covered in the rules. So I revert to the Places game rules, using the last letter of the previous word to start mine.

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applying robmandu’s rule…..
Nick Nolte

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Only one problem with that, rommandu.

Superman is fictional.

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Ahem, I stand by “offence.” Check any dictionary before you insult my spelling.

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@j, nothing in the aforementioned rules said he couldn’t be. They say the name must be of a “celebrity of some sort”. And celebrity is defined as a person who has a high degree of recognition by the general population; a famous person. Superman is definitely recognizable. ;-D

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Eeeeeeeeeeeeeevil Kaneeeeeeeeevil

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Keanu Reeves

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@Eambos – I stand by my correction of your misspelling

@Robmandu – A celebrity is a real person, not a drawing that is later animated.

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Sanjay Gupta, who, for all we know, might actually be Superman

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Grace Kelly

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Keifer Sutherland

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Samantha Fox

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Forrest Whitacker

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(@Rob:Socrates both begins and ends with an “s”. I thought that was clever of me.)

(whitecker)
(Foxx)

And my answer of Euripides was wrong; after Edgar Allen Poe, I should have said either Aristotle or Plato.

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Walt Whitman

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Walt Disney

@gail, yah, I noticed that at the time, and unfortunately, was unable to step up my game to your level. It’s an honor to play the game with a Master!

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Dan Rather

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Rick and Roger Mears

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Off-topic. Offence (Brit.) and offense (US) both work. Back to your respective corners, boys.

Rutherford B. Hayes.

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@gail

Plato would have been right. Allan was his middle name.

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Harriet Tubman

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Theodore Roosevelt

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Roman Polanski

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Pee Wee Herman

and yah, @j, that also works as

Paul Reubens

next player can choose which they want to act on

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William (Dean) Howells

Rembrandt van Rijn

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These double responses need to stop.

Randy Jackson

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Joe Jonas

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Nick Jonas

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oops sorry I lose!!!

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I was listening to my daughter… She is a big Jonas Brother fan… And I lost track… Sorry guys

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James Dean
(<3)

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Dustin Hoffman (oh wait, that’s me :p)

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Hank Aaron

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Annie Lennox

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Lance Armstrong

For a second there I freaked out and thought I had to think of an X name.

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Adam Sandler

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Sandi Thom

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Tori Spelling

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Sandra Bullock

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Barbara Walters

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Walter Payton

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Pippi Longstocking.

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Lee Harvey Oswald

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Suetonius (s’s at both ends again.)

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Susan B. Anthony

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Anthony Michael Hall

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Hugh Grant

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Gary Coleman

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Carrie Underwood

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Garth Brooks

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Bill O Reilly

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Oliver North

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Nora Jones

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Gabriella Sabatini (tennis star in the ‘80’s from Argentina)

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Sarah Michelle Gellar (start with “G”)

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.. oops

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uh, do we start with G or I now?

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Well, I messed up. Ghandi is his last name, not his first. =\

Let’s go with George Clooney.

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Goose Gossage (baseball player)

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God. j/k. George Clooney.

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Carry Fisher

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PnL: I just said George Clooney two answers before yours. That’s a repeat.

Frank Lampard

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Leonardo DiCaprio

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oooh i read your quip but somehow managed to skip the last part where you change your Gandhi answer. sorry!

Denzel Washington

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Willem Dafoe

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David Allen (author of Getting Things Done. I hereby declare him a celebrity.)

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Antonio Banderas

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Bruce Campbell

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Sarah Jessica Parker

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hahaha, omg thanks :D

Pat Benatar

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Billy Idol

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Itzhak Perlman

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Patrick Swayze

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Sonia Rykiel
what’s with all the S’s?

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Robert De Niro

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David Copperfield

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Chester Bennington

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Brian Urlacher

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Ursula Andress (see Dr. No)

Give me an “H” and I am out of here.

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Andrew McClain (Fluther gods are celebrities, yes?)

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Chuck Palahniuk if it’s the Clane, othewise

Marty Friedman

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Fred Thompson

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Terry Bozzio

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Brad Garrett

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George Lynch

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Lionel Richie

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Loretta Young

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Yul Brenner

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Brian May

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Mary Tyler Moore

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Mickey Rooney

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Rob Dyrdek

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Devin Townsend (he plays such lovely songs)

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Tiger Woods

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Wesley Snipes

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Stanley Kubrick

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Kelly LeBrock

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LeBron James

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James Hettfield

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Hank Williams

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William Rehnquist

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Reb Beach

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Barbara Mandrell

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Mark Walhberg

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Whoopi Goldberg

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Gary Oldman

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Oscar De La Hoya

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Quentin Tarantino

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Billy Zane

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Boris Yeltzin

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Yiannis Hrysomallis (Yanni)

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you guys’ll love this, I’m sure you haven’t heard enough of this name already
Hilary Clinton

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Corbin Bernsen

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Frankie Avalon

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Angus Young

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nice one, iwamoto!!
Yves Saint Laurent

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Les Nessman (WKRP in Cincinnati)

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- or should it be an s? Stevie Nicks

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Either way: Nikki Sixx

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Shane MacGowan

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Michael Caine

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Christopher Colombus

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Carolyn Kennedy

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Laura Ingalls Wilder

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Ingrid Bergman or William Baldwin

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Brad Wilk

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Willem van Oranje

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Friedrich Nietzsche

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Reggie Bush

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Barbara Bush

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Bart Simpson

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Augusten Burroughs (NYTimes best selling author)

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Butch Cassidy

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Christian Slater

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Ben Cohen (co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s)

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Chris Cornell

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Will Smith ( defensive line man for New Orleans Saints)

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Sammy Davis, Jr. (go with the D)

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Michael J. Fox (use the F)

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Frank Lloyd Wright

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William Faulkner

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Forrest Gump

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Fred Flintstone

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Fred Astaire

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Ashley Simpson

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Shirley Maclaine

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Michael Anthony Hall

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Hugh Hefner

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Lamar Odom (Lakers player)

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Ozzy Osbourne

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Oliver Stone (another S!)

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Shawn Lane (oh man, that guy was too good realy, here’s an example just watch the end for the speed, watch the whole thing for his exquisite phrasing)

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Bad, Bad Leroy Brown, baddest man in the whole damn town.

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Betty White

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Wayne Brady

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Benito Mussolini.

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Michael Jordan

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John Paul XXIII

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(Gimme an X – finally)

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Does this mean another X? Or a T?

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I’m using the last letter since that’s what was done for “Superman” up above..

Seth Rogan.

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Roger Whittaker

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D’Wayne Carter

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Clark Howard

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Hans Klok

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Kari Wührer

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Wes Montgommery

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okay, seriously, who are any of those people?

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hans klok is a magician, wes is a guitar player

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Kukla, of the triumvirate, Kukla, Fran and Ollie

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Of course, it would be cheating to say Lamb chop, who is, after all, only a sock.

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Montgomery Clift

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D’Wayne Carter is Lil Wayne, the rapper.
Should we start including links?

Carey Hart

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Harvey Korman….. R.I.P.

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William Tell

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Tyler Mane

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Mikhail Gorbachev (heard of him?) : )

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Gail Calder

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Cole Hamels (Philadelphia Phillies ace)

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Ach. I thought perhaps I had had the last word. Since no one is giving me a chance to use Heliogabalus, I’m taking my marbles and going home (whine).

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@trustinglife

I love Cole Hamels and the Phillies. I watch them every night! You a fan?

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@J, Yup! Big fan. I follow baseball every day and play fantasy baseball. PM me if you want to talk more!

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Yasmeen Bleeth

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Bobby Brown

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Boris Karlof

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Ken Kennedy (AKA “Misssssterrrrrrrrr KENNEDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kennedy….)

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@Sen: (have you used up your year’s quotas of Upper case, rrrrrepeat letters and exciamation points yet?)

@Boffin:(Karloff as in Bo*ff*in)

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Kurt Cobain

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Clayton Williams

@qailcalled: Who died and made you comment critic?

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William Shatner

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Shaquille O’Neal

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Owen Wilson

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Willie Nelson

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Natalie Wood
(What kind of wood doesn’t float? Sorry, bad joke.)

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Will Clark (former Giants first baseman)

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Casey Affleck

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Alanis Morissette

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Mick Jagger

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John F. Kennedy

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Matt Damon :D

Edit – a second too late i guess :(

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Dan Aykroyd

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Shakira (use ‘a’ for the next name)

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Ali Larter

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Laurence Olivier

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Oliver Wood

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Will Smith (the Fresh Prince of Bel Air)

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Sigmund Freud

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Ford Frick, former commissioner of baseball

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Freddy Prince Jr.

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Pat Buchanan (hehe, more infamous than famous maybe)

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Ben Stiller

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Tim McGraw

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Wendy O’Williams

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(Finally) Heliogabalus;

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Hericlites…this is getting harder but more fun.

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Daniel Craig

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(I was hoping for more names beginning w. H and ending in S – such as Hercules – since this method may go on forever.

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Christina Aguilera

(I wonder how the game ends. How do you win?)

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We all die.

Aristophanes

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Andy Dick

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David Letterman

Uh-oh, looks like we’ve reached the end of what my Firefox page will display. That may be it for me on this game. Had a good time.

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TL: Use Safari. It seems to work for me.

LL Cool J (Ladies Love Cool James)

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at last a J – I’ve only waited like 4 days for this!!!!!
Jon Bon Jovi

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WF: Glad I could provide you with a J. =]

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Jerry Springer

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Sidney Poitier (I’m using IE temporarily)

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Pete townshend, you know, from the who

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Tico Torres (you know, from Bon Jovi)

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Lexington Steel (sorry if that’s a bit raunchy, but the guy did win like 5 AVN awards)

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Sammy Hagar (I’m surprised iwa didn’t do this one yet)

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sammy killed van halen….

Hugh Grant

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do I detect a hint of bitterness there?
Gary Numan

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Nelly Furtado

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Falco (do a lot of women get turned on by him?)

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Oscar Wilde (and eww no! especially not now that he’s old)

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Wibi Soerjadi (international piano player from holland)

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Sarah Silverman :-)

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(stone cold) Steve Austin

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Wilt Chamberlain

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Charles Bernstein (composer, made nightmare on elm street soundtrack)

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Brad Pitt

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Frankie Muniz

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Malcolm Young (hehehe, you’re running out of y’s)

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Mike Portnoy (awesome drummer)

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Pamela Anderson

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Al Di Meola

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Manny Ramirez

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Rick James (bitch) haha

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Stevie Ray Vaughn

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Vanessa Paradis

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Philoctetes

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Or for the E, Euripides.

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Or the old joke: Euripides, then Eumenides.

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Slash

nice how the game evolves to a one word name game ;)

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[ Peter Mark ] Roget

I’m comfortable referencing him here in this game by “one name” as that’s how 99% of the world knows him.

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Tiësto

our world famous dutch DJ

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Ovid (have I been waiting for this.)

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