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In the discussion thread: You post character names. We'll guess the book/movie/play/TV show. [View all]

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Mon May 14, 2012, 10:21 PM

CBHagman (14,091 posts)

255. Nanny and the Professor.

Juliet Mills and Richard Long played the title characters.

Why does my brain retain such details?

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You post character names. We'll guess the book/movie/play/TV show. [View all]	Bertha Venation	May 2012	OP
Sure!	ohiosmith	May 2012	#1
Vic Vega--Reservoir Dogs	book lady	May 2012	#10
Pulp Fiction	ohiosmith	May 2012	#12
Sunshine Sammy	HopeHoops	May 2012	#2
Our Gang	ohiosmith	May 2012	#5
Bingo!	HopeHoops	May 2012	#24
Tyrone Slothrop	cliffordu	May 2012	#3
Tyrone Slothrop--the novel Gravities Rainbow?	book lady	May 2012	#20
Good answer!!!	cliffordu	May 2012	#30
Who was he?!	harmonicon	May 2012	#61
Slothrop is the main character.....	cliffordu	May 2012	#104
Ok, now I'm remembering.	harmonicon	May 2012	#139
wow.	cliffordu	May 2012	#147
His use of music is great.	harmonicon	May 2012	#148
Dr. Stephen Maturin	hifiguy	May 2012	#4
Master and Commander	ohiosmith	May 2012	#7
John Blutarsky and Doug Neidermeyer	geardaddy	May 2012	#6
Animal House	ohiosmith	May 2012	#8
Yes!	geardaddy	May 2012	#11
Animal House	hifiguy	May 2012	#9
Nailed it in one!	geardaddy	May 2012	#13
Hazel, Bigwig, Fiver, Blackberry, Dandelion...	Brickbat	May 2012	#14
Watership Down	hifiguy	May 2012	#16
Tyler Durden	bigwillq	May 2012	#15
Fight Club	ohiosmith	May 2012	#17
Randall Flagg	ohiosmith	May 2012	#18
The Stand by Stephen King	hifiguy	May 2012	#31
Yep	ohiosmith	May 2012	#33
Winston Smith	geardaddy	May 2012	#19
1984	WhoIsNumberNone	May 2012	#22
1984	ohiosmith	May 2012	#23
Winston Smith--Orwell"s 1984	book lady	May 2012	#26
James Bolivar diGriz	WhoIsNumberNone	May 2012	#21
The Stainless Steel Rat.	Fumesucker	May 2012	#49
omg, i loved those books! thanks for the reminder n/t	Scout	May 2012	#143
Dante Hicks	WhoIsNumberNone	May 2012	#25
Clerks	ohiosmith	May 2012	#27
Buddy Bradley & Leonard "Stinky" Brown	WhoIsNumberNone	May 2012	#28
Peter Bagge's "HATE" comic book	hifiguy	May 2012	#32
I wasn't sure anybody would get that one...	WhoIsNumberNone	May 2012	#37
The Goon on the Moon and Girly-Girl?	hifiguy	May 2012	#39
Which one?	geardaddy	May 2012	#41
Dreamhaven in Dinkytown.	hifiguy	May 2012	#42
Didn't they used to be on Lake Street just east of Lyndale?	geardaddy	May 2012	#46
Yep. The owner bought that building and moved the store there	hifiguy	May 2012	#48
I never got the chance to go in there.	geardaddy	May 2012	#52
Where the heck are they now?	hifiguy	May 2012	#55
They are right next door to where they were.	geardaddy	May 2012	#59
Roy Batty	ohiosmith	May 2012	#29
Blade Runner nt	PassingFair	May 2012	#47
Jack Twist	bigwillq	May 2012	#34
Brokeback Mountain	gratuitous	May 2012	#43
HOT	blueamy66	May 2012	#246
Pike Bishop	ohiosmith	May 2012	#35
The Kid	CBGLuthier	May 2012	#36
The Road Warrior?	WhoIsNumberNone	May 2012	#38
The one I am thinking of is from a book	CBGLuthier	May 2012	#79
'The Stand'	RZM	May 2012	#83
Not the one I am thinking of	CBGLuthier	May 2012	#89
There was, though I think he was actually cut out of the original release in the 1970s	RZM	May 2012	#94
Character "the Kid" and name of silent Charlie Chaplin movie. nt	Honeycombe8	May 2012	#278
Donnatella Moss	charlie and algernon	May 2012	#40
The West Wing	Staph	May 2012	#53
Hollis Mulwray	gratuitous	May 2012	#44
Chinatown	ohiosmith	May 2012	#50
One of my all-time favorite movies	gratuitous	May 2012	#56
Vesta Rose, Bob Patchett, and Mary Fisher	racaulk	May 2012	#45
She Devil	ohiosmith	May 2012	#63
Very good!	racaulk	May 2012	#69
Josh Randall	Fumesucker	May 2012	#51
Wanted Dead or Alive	ohiosmith	May 2012	#54
Bobby Shaftoe	Fumesucker	May 2012	#60
No idea!	ohiosmith	May 2012	#62
...	Fumesucker	May 2012	#64
Thanks	ohiosmith	May 2012	#67
Great characters make great stories..	Fumesucker	May 2012	#73
Thanks! The only one I recognize is Lazarus Long.	ohiosmith	May 2012	#75
Esmerelda "Esme" Weatherwax	Staph	May 2012	#57
Several of the Discworld books.	hobbit709	May 2012	#71
Charles Plumpick	Ptah	May 2012	#58
Jerry Langford	ohiosmith	May 2012	#65
King of Comedy	TheCentepedeShoes	May 2012	#91
Rob Gordon, Barry, Dick	NightWatcher	May 2012	#66
High Fidelity.	LeftPeopleFinishFirst	May 2012	#82
Ding	NightWatcher	May 2012	#85
Doghouse Reilly	CJCRANE	May 2012	#68
Strawberry.	GoCubsGo	May 2012	#70
Don't stare at it	NightWatcher	May 2012	#74
Yep.	GoCubsGo	May 2012	#76
Slowpoke Rodriguez	hobbit709	May 2012	#72
Looney Tunes.	GoCubsGo	May 2012	#77
Peggy McMillan	Faygo Kid	May 2012	#78
Andy Griffith Show	ohiosmith	May 2012	#80
Anne Shirley. Gilbert Blythe. Diana Barry.	LeftPeopleFinishFirst	May 2012	#81
Too easy - Anne of Green Gables.	Faygo Kid	May 2012	#88
the books were the best!	LeftPeopleFinishFirst	May 2012	#166
Dudley Dawson	RZM	May 2012	#84
Revenge of the Nerds.	ohiosmith	May 2012	#86
Rusty, Hank, Dean and Brock	MerryBlooms	May 2012	#87
The Venture Brothers, nt	Broken_Hero	May 2012	#93
Jerry Maguire	Shrek	May 2012	#90
Wasn't that from some movie with Tom Cruise?	WhoIsNumberNone	May 2012	#107
Okay.	Broken_Hero	May 2012	#92
I think I know number three. That's really obscure.	RZM	May 2012	#95
Yep, number 3 is Drizzt father	Broken_Hero	May 2012	#96
I think 2 is probably the hardest	Broken_Hero	May 2012	#100
Superman's father was Jor-el...	WhoIsNumberNone	May 2012	#105
Norrin Radd = Silver Surfer	hifiguy	May 2012	#116
Correct	Broken_Hero	May 2012	#120
#4 is the Gunslinger	petronius	May 2012	#126
Number 4# is Roland, the Gunslinger from Gilead	Broken_Hero	May 2012	#170
Captain William Bush, Maria Mason, Lady Barbara Wellesley n/t	sarge43	May 2012	#97
The Horatio Hornblower books	Staph	May 2012	#101
Yummy indeed n/t	sarge43	May 2012	#135
Maureen Smith	baldguy	May 2012	#98
The mother of	Staph	May 2012	#102
Kilgore Trout	IcyPeas	May 2012	#99
Scifi author referenced in several Vonnegut books. nt	hifiguy	May 2012	#117
also the name of my cat	IcyPeas	May 2012	#149
Omar Little	one_voice	May 2012	#103
The Wire	Duer 157099	May 2012	#118
Yep!...	one_voice	May 2012	#123
Darby Shaw	Baitball Blogger	May 2012	#106
Pelican Brief? nt	JustABozoOnThisBus	May 2012	#108
But of course.	Baitball Blogger	May 2012	#129
Horse Badorties	JustABozoOnThisBus	May 2012	#109
H & R Pufnstuf???? eom	mrmpa	May 2012	#111
Nooo, not from Pufnstuf	JustABozoOnThisBus	May 2012	#137
acharacter in a book	IcyPeas	May 2012	#150
edit, because I posted in the wrong place. nt	JustABozoOnThisBus	May 2012	#158
This message was self-deleted by its author	IcyPeas	May 2012	#169
THE FAN MAN	IcyPeas	May 2012	#160
Ding! Winner!	JustABozoOnThisBus	May 2012	#163
OK, here are some harder ones	WhoIsNumberNone	May 2012	#110
Fassett==the Osterman Weekend	mrmpa	May 2012	#112
Correct	WhoIsNumberNone	May 2012	#114
Junior Bruce=Hulk vs.	mrmpa	May 2012	#113
mmmm. Nope.	WhoIsNumberNone	May 2012	#115
Kerk Pyrrus is from DeathWorld (Harry Harrison), right?	petronius	May 2012	#128
Correct	WhoIsNumberNone	May 2012	#130
Sebastian Flyte	Duer 157099	May 2012	#119
Brideshead Revisited.	LeftishBrit	May 2012	#140
Joel Cairo and Kaspar Gutman.	nytemare	May 2012	#121
The Maltese Falcon	nuxvomica	May 2012	#125
Jerry Landers and God	oregonjen	May 2012	#122
Oh God	Scout	May 2012	#144
Hartbeest Schneidkoupon	RZM	May 2012	#124
Montana Wildhack	hifiguy	May 2012	#127
even cowgirls get the blues	IcyPeas	May 2012	#151
Nope. At least not originally.	hifiguy	May 2012	#153
Slaughterhouse V... Valerie Perine	cthulu2016	May 2012	#173
Principal Blackman, Stew the Meatman	beknighted	May 2012	#131
Strangers With Candy?	6000eliot	May 2012	#136
Correct	beknighted	May 2012	#146
Louis Winthorpe III	Manifestor_of_Light	May 2012	#132
Trading Places	JustABozoOnThisBus	May 2012	#138
Chief Bromden.	Manifestor_of_Light	May 2012	#133
Yum, Juicy Fruit	NightWatcher	May 2012	#141
Nope. Try again.	Manifestor_of_Light	May 2012	#168
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest	NightWatcher	May 2012	#219
Probably an easy one. Tim Drake.	white_wolf	May 2012	#134
Robin, in Batman and Detective Comics. nt	hifiguy	May 2012	#154
Simon Hunt, Peter Hancock, George Witton.	beac	May 2012	#142
Breaker Morant...	CBHagman	May 2012	#222
I checked imdb and you are correct... there's a "d" in there.	beac	May 2012	#248
more characters	Hula Popper	May 2012	#145
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham	IcyPeas	May 2012	#152
Downtown Abbey	sakabatou	May 2012	#155
Todd Domboski	sakabatou	May 2012	#156
Yellow Handkerchief, Big Alec	Brother Buzz	May 2012	#157
Here's a more obscure one. Hiro Protagonist.	white_wolf	May 2012	#159
Snow Crash	CJCRANE	May 2012	#164
George Tirebiter	JustABozoOnThisBus	May 2012	#161
A Firesign Theater character.	hifiguy	May 2012	#167
Joe Bonham	JustABozoOnThisBus	May 2012	#162
Berem Everman.	MrSlayer	May 2012	#165
Billy Pilgrim	IcyPeas	May 2012	#171
slaughterhouse V	cthulu2016	May 2012	#172
Porfiry Petrovich	cthulu2016	May 2012	#174
Rostnikov	petronius	May 2012	#187
close... but no vodka	cthulu2016	May 2012	#189
Major Major	cthulu2016	May 2012	#175
Catch-22	mikeargo	May 2012	#184
Lily Rowan	cthulu2016	May 2012	#176
"...the only woman in America who has necked with Nero Wolfe."	petronius	May 2012	#188
"Do it again, escamillo!"	cthulu2016	May 2012	#190
Meyer Wolfsheim	cthulu2016	May 2012	#177
F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby	book lady	May 2012	#213
Hank Scorpio	cthulu2016	May 2012	#178
The Simpsons	WhoIsNumberNone	May 2012	#183
Christmas Snow	cthulu2016	May 2012	#179
Three's Company	WhoIsNumberNone	May 2012	#182
Very good!	cthulu2016	May 2012	#191
This message was self-deleted by its author	cthulu2016	May 2012	#192
I didn't have to Google this one	WhoIsNumberNone	May 2012	#200
Oh, I didn't mean one would google...	cthulu2016	May 2012	#202
Joe Christmas	cthulu2016	May 2012	#180
Light in August, Faulkner.	woo me with science	May 2012	#324
Moist von Lipwig, Adorabelle Deerheart and...	From The Ashes	May 2012	#181
The Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett	Staph	May 2012	#218
Ignatius Reilly	mikeargo	May 2012	#185
The Republican Party	petronius	May 2012	#209
Mr. Shake Hands Man, Lady One Question	beknighted	May 2012	#186
Reuben Kincaid	cthulu2016	May 2012	#193
Partridge Family	Mendocino	May 2012	#199
Stinking Lizaveta	cthulu2016	May 2012	#194
Amanda Grayson	cthulu2016	May 2012	#195
Star Trek	GoCubsGo	May 2012	#204
George Knightley	cthulu2016	May 2012	#196
Jane Austen's Emma	book lady	May 2012	#212
Gully Foyle	cthulu2016	May 2012	#197
...is my name, Terra is my nation. Deep space is my dwelling place,	petronius	May 2012	#201
Seldom Seen Smith, George Hayduke	Mendocino	May 2012	#198
The Monkey Wrench Gang	mac56	May 2012	#205
Nicely-Nicely Johnson, Sorrowful Jones, Madame La Gimp,The Seldom Seen Kid	mac56	May 2012	#207
Damon Runyon, but I only know...	CBHagman	May 2012	#220
Zelda Gilroy	hifiguy	May 2012	#203
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.	GoCubsGo	May 2012	#206
Pall Agamemnides	BarbaRosa	May 2012	#208
Well, it looks like not to many other people have read this:	BarbaRosa	May 2012	#314
Bobby Nye, C. C. Drood, Bill Campbell...a good movie, few saw.	Tikki	May 2012	#210
Slam Dance?	sakabatou	May 2012	#211
Yes..from 1987...set in LA, the character of Bill Campbell was played by Adam Ant...	Tikki	May 2012	#251
Dallas, Ash and Kane	cthulu2016	May 2012	#214
Alien	WhoIsNumberNone	May 2012	#223
Frank Galvin	cthulu2016	May 2012	#215
Paul Newman in 'The Verdict'	pinboy3niner	May 2012	#232
Shelley Levene	cthulu2016	May 2012	#216
Glengarry Glen Ross.	CBHagman	May 2012	#221
Fuck the machine!	cthulu2016	May 2012	#229
Ignatius J. Reilly	KamaAina	May 2012	#217
A Confederacy of Dunces	era veteran	May 2012	#237
Thurgood Orenthal Stubbs.	Manifestor_of_Light	May 2012	#224
The PJs?	beknighted	May 2012	#228
Yup!!	Manifestor_of_Light	May 2012	#231
Agrajag	WhoIsNumberNone	May 2012	#225
Life, the Universe, and Everything (?)	Shrek	May 2012	#233
YOU HAVE BEEN DIVERTED ... ARTHUR DENT	WhoIsNumberNone	May 2012	#244
Bob Forehead	WhoIsNumberNone	May 2012	#226
Captain Freebird	WhoIsNumberNone	May 2012	#227
Velma Kelly	crunch60	May 2012	#230
Chicago?	Bertha Venation	May 2012	#239
You win! Chicago- staring Catherine Zeta Jones.. loved that movie	crunch60	May 2012	#249
So did I!	Bertha Venation	May 2012	#253
Main Characters: Major Motoko Kusanagi, Batou, Togusa, Daisuke Aramaki, Saito, Ishikawa, Borma,	AsahinaKimi	May 2012	#234
Koukakuki Dotai	Art_from_Ark	May 2012	#235
heh.. not yet.. a treat!	AsahinaKimi	May 2012	#238
So "Ghost in the Shell" is the English title, eh?	Art_from_Ark	May 2012	#252
Phoebe Figalilly	Art_from_Ark	May 2012	#236
Nanny and the Professor.	CBHagman	May 2012	#255
Hildy O'Dair	Bertha Venation	May 2012	#240
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn	sakabatou	May 2012	#257
Jurgis Rudkus	Bertha Venation	May 2012	#241
The Jungle	sakabatou	May 2012	#258
Ho-Jon	HopeHoops	May 2012	#242
MAS*H	WhoIsNumberNone	May 2012	#245
Sharon Falconer	Bertha Venation	May 2012	#243
Elmer Gantry	sakabatou	May 2012	#259
Ophelia Todd.	BlueIris	May 2012	#247
Stephen King's Skeleton Crew...she worked in the library	book lady	May 2012	#264
Good work.	BlueIris	May 2012	#272
Mr. Fezziwig	IcyPeas	May 2012	#250
A Christmas Carol.	CBHagman	May 2012	#256
Hannibal Hayes and Kid Currie	Art_from_Ark	May 2012	#254
Alias Smith and Jones.	Recovered Repug	May 2012	#262
Jake, Cassie, Rachel, Marco and Tobias	sakabatou	May 2012	#260
Leah McCall	Bertha Venation	May 2012	#261
Pat Conroy's Beach Music	book lady	May 2012	#263
Diana Moon Glampers	geardaddy	May 2012	#265
Kurt Vonnegut's short story Harrison Bergeron	book lady	May 2012	#274
Yes...and which novel does she briefly appear in?	geardaddy	May 2012	#275
Molasar	RedCloud	May 2012	#266
Dale Gribble	Initech	May 2012	#267
King of the Hill	geardaddy	May 2012	#276
Walter H. White and Jesse Pikmin	Initech	May 2012	#268
Harold Callahan	Initech	May 2012	#269
Dirty Harry!	CJCRANE	May 2012	#279
I know what you're thinking - did I fire six shots or only five?	Initech	May 2012	#281
Lord Peter Wimsey	Flaxbee	May 2012	#270
Agatha Christie, Rumpole of the Bailey	IcyPeas	May 2012	#285
Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane are from books by Dorothy Sayers.	gkhouston	May 2012	#318
Bertha Venation	Bertha Venation	May 2012	#271
Dra. Lisbet Cula	RedCloud	May 2012	#273
Barry and Levon, Doug, Louie	beknighted	May 2012	#277
I wanna dip my balls in it	NightWatcher	May 2012	#306
Gordon Shumway	Gidney N Cloyd	May 2012	#280
.	WhoIsNumberNone	May 2012	#288
ALF	Woody Woodpecker	May 2012	#304
Darryl Revok	rbnyc	May 2012	#282
Weese	NewJeffCT	May 2012	#283
Ghan-buri-Ghan	NewJeffCT	May 2012	#284
Lord of the Rings	KamaAina	May 2012	#315
correct, but	NewJeffCT	May 2012	#316
Henry Bemis	IcyPeas	May 2012	#286
Not certain but I think he wants his beer and travel money...	Gidney N Cloyd	May 2012	#308
Francie Nolan	IcyPeas	May 2012	#287
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn	Bertha Venation	May 2012	#305
OK- You've all disappointed me greatly...	WhoIsNumberNone	May 2012	#289
Yyrkoon	WhoIsNumberNone	May 2012	#290
Otto Maddox	WhoIsNumberNone	May 2012	#291
Jessica 6	WhoIsNumberNone	May 2012	#292
Junior Bruce	WhoIsNumberNone	May 2012	#293
Travis W Redfish	WhoIsNumberNone	May 2012	#294
Jimmy Bender	WhoIsNumberNone	May 2012	#295
Renensco P Blue	WhoIsNumberNone	May 2012	#296
Tricia McMillan	WhoIsNumberNone	May 2012	#297
Trillian, from "the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"	CJCRANE	May 2012	#298
yeah, I had to throw out an easy one- Just to see if people were paying attention...	WhoIsNumberNone	May 2012	#299
Spider Pierre	WhoIsNumberNone	May 2012	#300
Frito Pendejo	Woody Woodpecker	May 2012	#301
Idiocracy character	Gidney N Cloyd	May 2012	#310
Jack Stapleton	Woody Woodpecker	May 2012	#302
Frank Coffin	Woody Woodpecker	May 2012	#303
Cabbage Head, Bruno Puntz Jones, Chicken Lady, Buddy	NightWatcher	May 2012	#307
I crush your head!	beknighted	May 2012	#309
Walter Sobchak	7wo7rees	May 2012	#311
The Big Lebowski	CJCRANE	May 2012	#313
Keitaro Urashima	AsahinaKimi	May 2012	#312
Roderick Frederick Ronald Arnold William MacArthur McBan to the Hundred and Fifty-First. nt	eppur_se_muova	May 2012	#317
James Dunworthy and Ned Henry. n/t	gkhouston	May 2012	#319
Other characters from same source: Verity Kindle and Lady Schrapnell. n/t	gkhouston	May 2012	#328
Hiro Protagonist & YT	GoneOffShore	May 2012	#320
My bad , I didn't see the earlier post.	GoneOffShore	May 2012	#325
Try these names:	lookingfortruth	May 2012	#321
Rex Mundi	LeftOfSelf-Centered	May 2012	#322
Doug & Dinsdale Piranha	LeftOfSelf-Centered	May 2012	#323
Monty Python's Flying Circus	WhoIsNumberNone	May 2012	#329
Bobby Chombo & Hollis Henry	GoneOffShore	May 2012	#326
Punchinello Beezo.	cherokeeprogressive	May 2012	#327

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