Let's do a WHO AM I - Come on and play

[MrScorpio]

The rules:

- Up to three Yes on No questions per post

- Post as many as you like

- Thread has a FIFTY post limit

Some hints:

- You have three questions to use per post. Anything less than that is a waste

- A lot of you guys will ask the same question. Read the other posts, clues are there

- If you ask bullshit questions, you're fucking it up for everyone else

- If you know what the career path is don't ask unrelated questions

- You should look for these basic clues: Sex, Race, Alive or Dead, Nationality, Occupation, Published or Featured works

[Red State Rebel]

1. Here we go...

Occupation?
Sex?
Alive?

[MrScorpio]

2. No, no, no

Yes or no questions only

Read the rules

[Brotherjohn]

3. Male? In Politics? In Science?

I take it he/she is dead from the last answer (only good one)?

[MrScorpio]

4. yes, no, no

[giant_robot]

5. Well, since these 3 worked well for me last time....

Has this person ever done any jail time?

Does this person have a college degree?

Does this person have an advanced degree (MBA, PhD, MD, etc.)?

[MrScorpio]

6. no, yes, yes

[giant_robot]

7. Was he born before 1920?

Is he American?

Is he caucasian?

So far:

male, dead, holds an advanced degree

[MrScorpio]

8. Yes, yes, yes

[Kenneth ken]

9. were you an inventor? Scientist? engineer?

[Donald Ian Rankin]

10. Hmm...

A dead white American man, born before 1920, with an advanced degree, who has never done jail time, and was not involved in science or politics...

Were you principally famous for your contribution to the arts (writing, visual arts, music etc)?

Were you a sportsman?

Did you live into the last 50 years?

[MrScorpio]

12. yes, no, yes

[Goathead]

42. self delete

[MrScorpio]

11. no, no, no

[Brotherjohn]

13. Were you assoc'd with Film? TV? Writing?

[MrScorpio]

14. no, no, yes

[Brotherjohn]

15. Novels? Short stories? Essays?

[MrScorpio]

16. no, no, yes

[Brotherjohn]

17. Born before 1900? Died in last 10 years? Wrote plays, too?

[MrScorpio]

18. no, no, no

[Brotherjohn]

19. SOMEBODY else play! (too early I guess) Poet? Beat movement? OD'd?

(...from drugs or alcohol)

[MrScorpio]

20. no, no, no

[Brotherjohn]

21. Am I Yvor Winters? (In Defense of Reason)

[MrScorpio]

22. no

[Brotherjohn]

23. I give up until/unless somebody else asks more questions. sorry.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

24. So...

A male white American essayist who was born between 1900 and 1920, and died between 1955 and 1995, and was not connected with politics, film, TV, or science, and didn't write plays...

Were you noted for being a liberal?

Were your essays about the arts?

Were you a cultural or political comentator?

[MrScorpio]

26. Yes, yes, yes

[Goathead]

25. Are you from California? Are you from the New York?

Are you from New England?

[MrScorpio]

27. no, yes, no

[ralps]

28. Were you born after 1910?

Were you a cultural commentator?
Did you die in the 1980's?

[MrScorpio]

31. no, yes, yes

[ImpeachBush]

29. Were you an educator?

Did you work for a university? Did you read Einstein?

[MrScorpio]

32. yes, yes, no

[Goathead]

30. Are you Lawrence Ferlinghetti?

[MrScorpio]

33. no

[giant_robot]

34. Are you William S. Burroughs? n/t

[MrScorpio]

35. no

[Goathead]

36. Are you Dr Seuss?

[MrScorpio]

39. no

[Brotherjohn]

37. Are you Granville Hicks ?

[MrScorpio]

40. no

[July]

38. Trilling? nt

[MrScorpio]

41. no

[Goathead]

43. Did you win a Pulitzer? did you win a Nobel?

did you win any prizes?

[MrScorpio]

45. no, no, yes

[Goathead]

47. Was your audience children? Did you write about labor?

Did you write about extreme polical points of view?

[MrScorpio]

48. no, no, no

[ralps]

44. Did you write any books on art?

Were you born between 1900 and 1905?
Are you Robert Hughes? (The author of "The Shock of The New")

[MrScorpio]

46. yes, no, no

[Goathead]

49. Was I born in New york? Was I in the military?

Was I well liked by the public?

[MrScorpio]

51. Yes, no, yes

You guys lose

[Goathead]

53. Who was it?

[ralps]

50. Is your book on art used in the classroom?

Were you born in 1905?
Were you born in 1906?

[MrScorpio]

52. I win. I am Joseph Campbell

http://www.jcf.org/about_jc.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Campbell

[Goathead]

54. Gee could you pick someone even more obscure?

:applause: That was a good one.

[MrScorpio]

56. Joseph Campbell is one of my heroes

He had that series of Bill Moyers interviews and also he once examined the mythological aspects of Star Wars.

I thought it was apropos

[ralps]

57. But MrScorpio I asked you if he was born between 1900 and 1905

From one of your links it says he was born in 1904.

[MrScorpio]

58. Mea Culpa

I was answering more than one question at a time.

I should have caught that

[ralps]

59. OK I understand

:hi: :hug: :pals: :woohoo: :hug: :yourock:

[Goathead]

60. Sweet, I'll read up about him.

That was a good challenge, even though nobody got it.

[giant_robot]

55. Damn! I should have gotten that one!

I was just watching the "extras" dvd from the Johnny Darko director's cut last night. They mentioned Campbell a few times.