Not:
Paula Prentiss
Peter Piper
Pope Paul VI
Paul Peterson
Porky Pig
Peppermint Patty
Patti Page
Parker Posey
Pat Paulson
Prince Phillip
Not any Pope Paul
19 questions to go
Female?
Real?
Alive?
(I thought I'd just get those out of the way. How are the Yankees doing?)
Male
Real
Not alive
Not a Pope (not Paul, or Pius, or any other name beginning with "P" -- I'll throw that in as a freebie)
16 questions to go
Yanks are up, 4-2, in the 8th
Yes to Pablo Picasso. Take it away, fealola!
Make that 5-2, now -- Bernie Williams just homered.
Not Andrew Denton.
Homer-- a home run. He hit the ball so well, nobody could catch it in time to get him out --
(he would be out if they had caught the ball before it hit the ground. Or if they had caught the ball and touched him with it while he was not touching a base.)
--and he made it all the way around the bases without stopping and scored. All the way, as they say!
margo, "homered" means that he hit a home run.
Pat Paulsen (don't know if he is alive..)
Jeez - you people - I'm a struggling little koala here!
In Australia, we speak English and Strine!
Alan Dershowitz
Alive ?
Male ?
Real ?
Arthur (Conan) Doyle?
Angie Dickinson?
Abner Doubleday?
Although fealola and mac have already answered margo's question about the meaning of "homered," I just thought I'd bore everyone senseless by quoting from an essay called "Baseball As Narrative" by Bart Giamatti (the former baseball commissioner, who was also a Renaissance scholar and president of Yale). In the essay, Giamatti advances the theory that baseball is essentially a narrative, in which the tale that's being told is about leaving home and seeking to return home safely. In this narrative, "A 'home run' is the definitive kill, the overcoming of obstacle at one stroke, the gratification instantaneous in knowing one has earned a risk-free journey out, around and back." According to Giamatti's theory, baseball is especially appealing to Americans ("a nation of immigrants, all of whom left one home to seek another") because it's "an epic of exile and return, a vast, communal poem about separation, loss, and the hope for reunion."
Aren't you glad you asked?
All of which gives me more confidence that Abner Doubleday could be the correct answer for this round!
But just in case he isn't, I'll guess:
Alain Delon
Andy Devine
Angela Davis?
Allen Dulles?
Albert Desalvo?
