Jestercelli

[Quailman]

Stumper: Were you Ricky Ricardo's landlord?

[jesternl]

General: are you alive? Yes
General : Are you male ? Yes
General: are you from the USA or the UK?: No
General: are you famous for politics and/or science?: No
General : are you European?: Yes
General: Are you in the Music or Performing Arts fields?: No
General : Are/were you a sportsman?: No
General: Are you from Benelux or the Iberian Peninsula?: Yes
General: Are you from Luxembourg or Netherlands: Yes
General: Are you an artist?
By "artist" I meant someone in the visual arts: painter, sculptor, photographer, designer, etc: No
General : Are you a member of a royal family?: No
General: were you born before 1960?: Yes
and new
General: Were you born after 1945: No
General: Are you a writer?: Yes

[This message has been edited by jesternl (edited 02-14-2003 05:02 PM).]

[jesternl]

And Quailman has me stumped again......

[Hitchhiker]

Major Major Major looked like Henry Fonda.

General: Are you a writer?

[Quailman]

Fred and Ethel Mertz were Lucy and Ricky's landlords.

I'll hold my general pending answer to the writer one.

Stumper: Did you portray Laverne in Laverne and Shirley?

Are you going to answer the 1945 General?

[jesternl]

Oops, for got to add that one...

General: Were you born after 1945: No
General: Are you a writer?: Yes

And I've never even heard of Laverne and Shirley, so very very stumped there..

[Quailman]

It was Penny Marshall in a forgetable stcom in the '70s.

Holding general until perhaps tomorrow.

[Dragon Phoenix]

Lenny Kuhr sang De Generaal for Rinus Michels.

Potential solution in the form of a stumper:

Are you the Dutch poet who wrote the famous lines "Denkend aan Holland zie ik ..."?

[jesternl]

Sorry for the delay people, I've been out looking for houses and shopping all day...
The poet of course is Hendrik Marsman/

"Denkend aan Holland zie ik brede rivieren traag door oneindig laagland gaan"

[The Cruciverbalist]

Ooh, more Botticelli! Let's see...

Did you write The Discovery of Heaven?

And yes, this too is a guess disguised as a stumper.

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I was up all last night playing poker with tarot cards.
I got a full house and four people died.

Every night I stare at my rug and try to move it with my mind.
I've been doing that for years and it hasn't moved an inch...
but the rest of my house is gone.

[This message has been edited by The Cruciverbalist (edited 02-15-2003 10:55 PM).]

[Agamemnon]

[jesternl]

Did you write The Discovery of Heaven?

Yes I am indeed the writer Harry Mulisch. Aside from writing The Discovery of Heaven, I've written many other books, including "De Aanslag" (The assualt), which was the Dutch entry for the 1986 Oscars, and won as best non-English movie.
Link to IMDB.com

The Discovery of Heaven is IMHO a book well worth reading.

Well done Cruciverbalist, and all others. I wondered if I should've said yes to some of the artist questions, but I figured, like Quailman, that a writer is not a performing or visual rtist.

[The Cruciverbalist]

If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of GL'ers. Never would have got it if it hadn't been narrowed down so far already.

Shall I start another one?

[Dragon Phoenix]

Yes please.