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Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Not REALLY the President

Were you a President pro tem of the Senate who some cutesy "historians" actually argue served as President of the U.S., due to a Sabbath delay in the administration of the oath to the guy who'd actually been elected to the job?

15 comments:

Neil said...

I totally know the event that you're talking about, but I can't produce the name. YNQ.

William said...

David Rice Atchison.

YNQ: Male?

Neil said...

I'm a dude.

William said...

Can you hear me scream all the way from Cleveland? The "New Post" option has again disappeared from the upper right portion of the screen.

Stumper:

Did one of your characters set herself a very ambitious cooking goal?

Neil said...

I thought that was what I heard this AM. As for the stumper, no I'm not Aesop?

William said...

No, Amy Adams, in "Julie and Julia."

YNQ: American?

William said...

Could you never hope to replace the beloved star of 1990s TV series when that star had to take time off work?

Neil said...

Yes, American.

Neil said...

Too well disguised for me. YNQ.

William said...

Annabeth Gish, who stepped in for Gillian Anderson on "The X-Files" when Anderson was pregnant.

YNQ: Entertainer (usual definition)?

Stumper: Did you, a famous person, complain when the filming of "Ghostbusters" closed several streets in your neighborhood?

Neil said...

1) Not an entertainer. 2) No, I"m not Woody Allen?

William said...

Good guess, but no, it was Isaac Asimov.

YNQ: Political or military leader?

Stumper: Did you once play a drug-addicted priest on TV?

Neil said...

Well, that's pretty funny. I wasn't being coy or evasive, I really didn't know the answer when I guessed Woody Allen. But as it happens, the guy I'm thinking of actually is Isaac Asimov, so William wins!

William said...

Two more stumpers, in addition to the one above, just to get the ball rolling again:

Have you played both a saintly but strong wife of a threatened man, and a down-to-business phone sex worker?

Were the longtime gossip columnist of VARIETY magazine?

William said...

That is, Were you the longtime gossip columnist of VARIETY magazine?