Pariah Posted September 15, 2022 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2022 S was skipped 'R' is for 'Ron DeSantis'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted September 15, 2022 Report Share Posted September 15, 2022 I would have thought that deSantis was the S, I always work on the surname. So the missing S is Suharto President of Indonesia (Military dictatorship !) And the U will be Jorge Ubico Elected President of Guatamala but assumed dictatr powers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted September 15, 2022 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2022 32 minutes ago, death tribble said: I would have thought that deSantis was the S, I always work on the surname. We've been over this. Recall: 2 hours ago, Pariah said: Ron DeSantis (Yeah, I know. 'D' was already taken.) But, if we're going to ignore the leading 'd', then I'll nominate Betsy DeVos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 15, 2022 Report Share Posted September 15, 2022 I was assuming the next letter was 'S', but I had a chore to perform here that prevented me researching political scumbags. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted September 15, 2022 Report Share Posted September 15, 2022 Next letter is V I recalled Indonesia and used one of two that I could have used. Also found an O that you could have used Milton Obote Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 15, 2022 Report Share Posted September 15, 2022 Catalina "Cathi" Vásquez Villalpando was Treasurer of the United States in the elder Bush Administration, and was sent to prison in 1994 for tax evasion and obstruction of justice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted September 15, 2022 Report Share Posted September 15, 2022 Ne Win Burma. seized power in a coup Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 19, 2022 Report Share Posted September 19, 2022 The next letter up is X, and I haven't been able to find an individual with a surname that starts with X. I propose we take Marc Dutroux's name and spell it backwards, and move on from there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted September 20, 2022 Author Report Share Posted September 20, 2022 Kevin Yoder, former Kansas Representative and Party-line climate change denier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted September 20, 2022 Report Share Posted September 20, 2022 20 hours ago, Cancer said: The next letter up is X, and I haven't been able to find an individual with a surname that starts with X. I propose we take Marc Dutroux's name and spell it backwards, and move on from there. Xi Jinping. (The Chinese often come to the rescue in this thread whenever we get to Q or X.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 23, 2022 Report Share Posted September 23, 2022 for Z, Arthur Zimmermann, foreign secretary for Imperial Germany for much of WW1. Not explicitly corrupt (in terms of taking illegal advantage for personal gain from the government he worked for), he did arrange for some less than nice things to be done to his country's enemies, e.g., for a shipment of rifles to be smuggled into Ireland to start a revolt there against the UK government, and he authorized the infamous Zimmerman telegram, proposing that Mexico ally with Germany if the US were to enter WW1 against Germany, offering them Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona as war spoils. in 1916 he threatened the US ambassador with an uprising of 500,000 armed German-Americans if the US were to declare war on Germany. (Ambassador Gerard replied reflexively, "In that case, we have 501,000 lampposts to hang them from.") New Theme: extinct species. Don't necessarily have to be real, and functionally extinct species can be used. (A functionally extinct species still has living individuals, but those are all of the same sex so that the species goes extinct when those individuals die.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted September 23, 2022 Report Share Posted September 23, 2022 Aurochs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted September 23, 2022 Report Share Posted September 23, 2022 Go big or go home. Brontosaurus tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmjalund Posted September 23, 2022 Report Share Posted September 23, 2022 Carnosaurs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted September 23, 2022 Report Share Posted September 23, 2022 Diplodocus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted September 23, 2022 Report Share Posted September 23, 2022 Elephant Bird (Aepyornis maximus), native to Madagascar and driven to extinction c. 1000 AD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted September 23, 2022 Report Share Posted September 23, 2022 Finsch's Duck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finsch's_duck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted September 23, 2022 Author Report Share Posted September 23, 2022 Great Auk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted September 24, 2022 Report Share Posted September 24, 2022 Hadrosaurus tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted September 24, 2022 Report Share Posted September 24, 2022 Ibex...2 species, Pyrenean (2000) and Portuguese (late 19th century). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted September 24, 2022 Report Share Posted September 24, 2022 Javan Lapwing. Not seen since 1940 so rated extinct tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted September 24, 2022 Author Report Share Posted September 24, 2022 Klingon gods. The Klingons killed them all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted September 24, 2022 Report Share Posted September 24, 2022 and what pray tell was the problem with picking the Kosrae Crake ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosrae_crake Leedsichthys https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leedsichthys The origin of 'I caught a fish that big.....' tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted September 24, 2022 Report Share Posted September 24, 2022 Another L, because they deserve it. Lions...the Barbary lion was first described by Linnaeus in the 18th century. AKA the Egyptian lion. Extinct 1960. The Cape lion of South Africa, extinct 1935. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted September 25, 2022 Report Share Posted September 25, 2022 Can't decide whether I should put mammoth here, or megalodon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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