Sarah Michelle Geller vs Uri Geller

[Tapioca Dextrin]

I'm not sugessting a slyer vs spoon bender fight, but can anyone else think of pairs of celebrites with similar names who might just be related?

I think fashion designer Vivienne Westwood might be Clint Eastwood in drag :D

[Green Bean]

Just for the record, Billdo and I are Gellers too.

[Green Bean]

Oh yeah, I think those characters on Friends are called Geller.

[Green Bean]

And Drew Barrymore's character in the movie Never Been Kissed? Her last name was Geller.

[Green Bean]

Yes, I am trying to hijack this thread. All Gellers, all the time.

Vive La Gellers!

[Green Bean]

p.s. Sarah Michelle's last name is spelled "Gellar." She is the inferior sort of Geller.

[Green Bean]

By the way, other well-known Gellers include Andrew Geller, the shoe designer and Laura Geller, the make-up artist. They're not as famous as Uri or Sarah Michelle, but heck, I'm always on the lookout for more Gellers.

[Spritle]

Then there was that dog, "Old Geller"...

[Arnold Winkelried]

Originally posted by Green Bean
p.s. Sarah Michelle's last name is spelled "Gellar." She is the inferior sort of Geller.

Inferior? It seems to me that she's doing pretty well for herself. Not that I am swayed by superficial, ephemereal physical characteristics. :o

An internet quick search found a "Tom Geller, master of puppies".

Then there's always cmkeller, who would probably be a superior kind of geller? I think the hard k is a superior sound to the wimpy, soft g.

[Duke]

Surely Sarah M Gellar would defeat Uri Geller in a flash. All Uri can do is bend spoons, and James Randi proved that he can't even really do that.

[Kamino Neko]

Originally posted by Green Bean
p.s. Sarah Michelle's last name is spelled "Gellar." She is the inferior sort of Geller.

Urm...of the given pair, is SMG REALLY the one you want to dissavow connection to?

[xizor]

And don't forget the inspiring story of Anne Sullivan and Helen Geller.


Related to the OP, the was a basketball player and there is now a football player named Kareem Abdul Jabbar. What are the chances of that?

[Green Bean]

Originally posted by Tengu
Originally posted by Green Bean
p.s. Sarah Michelle's last name is spelled "Gellar." She is the inferior sort of Geller.

Urm...of the given pair, is SMG REALLY the one you want to dissavow connection to?



Hmmm...an excellent point, Tengu.

I hereby declare that all Gellers/Gellars are equally superior.

[Lamar Mundane]

How can you leave out that power hittin', bad throw scoopin', cancer fightin', first baseman extraorinaire Andres Gelleragga?

[Dinsdale]

Yogi Bear/Berra?

[Phobos]

Originally posted by Colin Wilkinson
I'm not sugessting a slyer vs spoon bender fight,

I would! :)

[Omniscient]

xizor, IIRC, the basketball great is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar while the ex-Dolphin running back is Karim Abdul-Jabbar. Very similar, but its worth noting that neither was the man's given name. Both were names each adopted once converting to the Islamic faith. I have no idea what the protocol for selecting or being given these new names are, but it stands to reason it might be less than a pure coincidence that there is such a close comparison.

That said, there is a pretty long list of athletes with the same names in sports. Just of the top of my head Charles Johnson (WR for the Eagles, C for the White sox) and Bobby Jones (Ps for the Mets) are a couple of currently playing examples. But then again, Charles or Bobby aren't quite Kareem, nor is Johnson and Jones as obscure as Adbul-Jabbar

[Kamino Neko]

Originally posted by Omniscient
Bobby Jones (Ps for the Mets)

Just so I'm clear...the Mets have had 2 (or more? O_O) pitchers named Bobby Jones? Kinda trippy.

[c_goat]

Sarah Michelle Gellar was born on the same day as me :) (year and everything)

I guess that makes me quasi-famous or something.

[Duke]

How about that basketball player from Penn who was in this year's NBA draft--Michael Jordan? Now that's spooky.

[pluto]

I think Penn and Geller are funny!

[Omniscient]

Tengu, its better than that. They have 2 pitchers, both named Bobby Jones on the staff right now (or as of the end of this season). Both are starters, ones black, ones white, ones a lefty, ones a righty (I think). I'm sure if you do a search you could find all kinds of cute stories on it, it made pretty big news when they acquired Bobby J. Jones as a free agent at the begining of this last season.

You know....I'd really like to look some of this stuff up to make sure its correct, but damn it I'm gonna live dangerously.

[racinchikki]

Obscure, yes...

Race car driver Buckshot Jones' given name is Roy Jones, Jr.

There is also a boxer named Roy Jones, Jr.

'Course, Buckshot's white and I think the boxer is black.

[Kamino Neko]

Originally posted by Omniscient
Tengu, its better than that. They have 2 pitchers, both named Bobby Jones on the staff right now (or as of the end of this season). Both are starters, ones black, ones white, ones a lefty, ones a righty (I think). I'm sure if you do a search you could find all kinds of cute stories on it, it made pretty big news when they acquired Bobby J. Jones as a free agent at the begining of this last season.

Whoah...way trippy.

One assumes they have different middle names?

[jb_farley]

Originally posted by Tengu
Originally posted by Green Bean
p.s. Sarah Michelle's last name is spelled "Gellar." She is the inferior sort of Geller.

Urm...of the given pair, is SMG REALLY the one you want to dissavow connection to?


And what a pair they are. sigh...


jb