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Subject: Guess the name # ? (Wicked wins !)

Written By: FussBudgetVanPelt on 07/20/02 at 00:41 a.m.

I'm thinking of a sportsperson.

Subject: Re: Guess the name # ? (Hints)

Written By: Zella on 07/20/02 at 00:47 a.m.

O.J. Simpson?

Subject: Re: Guess the name # ? (Hints)

Written By: FussBudgetVanPelt on 07/20/02 at 00:50 a.m.

This person is anglo-saxan

Subject: Re: Guess the name # ? (Hints)

Written By: Zella on 07/20/02 at 00:52 a.m.


Quoting:
This person is anglo-saxan
End Quote



But not Anglo-Saxon? ;D

Jesse Ventura?

Subject: Re: Guess the name # ? (Hints)

Written By: FussBudgetVanPelt on 07/20/02 at 00:55 a.m.


Quoting:


But not Anglo-Saxon? ;D

Jesse Ventura?
End Quote



I wondered about the spelling

No, I gather Jesse Ventura was an American who was born in America...if you get my meaning

Subject: Re: Guess the name # ? (Hints)

Written By: Zella on 07/20/02 at 01:00 a.m.

You mean, like British? ???

Subject: Re: Guess the name # ? (Hints)

Written By: FussBudgetVanPelt on 07/20/02 at 01:01 a.m.

I mean this person got Naturalised (if that's the term you use over there)

They 'became' an american....

Subject: Re: Guess the name # ? (Hints)

Written By: Zella on 07/20/02 at 01:06 a.m.

Oh! So you don't mean British?

Arnold Schwartzenegger? (He is a body-builder -- does that count?)

Subject: Re: Guess the name # ? (Hints)

Written By: FussBudgetVanPelt on 07/20/02 at 01:08 a.m.

It would count for me

Good guess but incorrect

This person played in a sport where you play on your own against one other person...

Subject: Re: Guess the name # ? (Hints)

Written By: Zella on 07/20/02 at 01:12 a.m.

Bobby Fisher?

That's not sport -- that's "entertainment" (in the orange catagory! ;D )

Subject: Re: Guess the name # ? (Hints)

Written By: Wicked Lester on 07/20/02 at 10:20 a.m.

Ivan Lendl?

Subject: Re: Guess the name # ? (Hints)

Written By: Indy Gent on 07/20/02 at 11:11 a.m.

Martina Navratilova?

Subject: Re: Guess the name # ? (Hints)

Written By: FussBudgetVanPelt on 07/20/02 at 06:58 p.m.


Quoting:
Ivan Lendl?
End Quote



Wicked Lester steals in in the middle of (my) night with the right answer !  

Congrats !

Ivan be the correct answer ....

FB  :)

Subject: Re: Guess the name # ? (Wicked wins !)

Written By: Wicked Lester on 07/20/02 at 09:19 p.m.

Ok, what's my prize? Any supermodel with an Aussie accent will do!

Subject: Re: Guess the name # ? (Wicked wins !)

Written By: Indy Gent on 07/20/02 at 10:28 p.m.

Dang it! When Fuss mentioned it was a sportsperson, I was convinced it was Martina.  >:( :-[
When did Ivan become an American citizen? ???
BTW, congratulations, WL! ;)

Subject: Re: Guess the name # ? (Wicked wins !)

Written By: Wicked Lester on 07/20/02 at 10:41 p.m.


Quoting:
When did Ivan become an American citizen? ???
BTW, congratulations, WL! ;)
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I don't remember for sure, but it was in the early nineties.

And thanks!

Subject: Re: Guess the name # ? (Wicked wins !)

Written By: FussBudgetVanPelt on 07/21/02 at 00:01 a.m.


Quoting:
Dang it! When Fuss mentioned it was a sportsperson, I was convinced it was Martina.  >:( :-[
When did Ivan become an American citizen? ???
BTW, congratulations, WL! ;)
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Hee hee !

I hadn't got to the bit where I was going to say the they were a male cos' Zella had blithely wandered down that path !  ;D

Mind you talk about one extreme to the other - Arnie to Bobby Fischer... ::)

Fuss !

JC - Martina was the other obvious choice