# Celebrities/VIPs/Luminaries whose names phonetically join in the middle **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [February 16, 2018, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912 "2018-02-16T03:47:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/161 "2018-03-20T21:34:47Z")
Alan Napier, the one true Alfred Pennyworth. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2018, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/162 "2018-03-21T10:35:58Z")
Kent Taylor was top-billed as TV’s **Boston Blackie** in the 1950s — after getting billed second in movies that starred Richard Dix during the 1940s, but before getting billed second to Gene Nelson in one of _his_ star turns in the 1960s. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2018, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/163 "2018-03-21T12:49:50Z")
After five seasons as a MADtv castmember, Phil LaMarr was simultaneously voicing Samurai Jack on SAMURAI JACK, and Static on STATIC SHOCK, and Green Lantern on JUSTICE LEAGUE, and Hermes Conrad on FUTURAMA. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/164 "2018-03-22T05:27:43Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Actress and acting teacher Stella Adler Unfortunately the ‘uh’ ending of Stella and short vowel ‘a’ of Adler don’t quite high five, but I believe you’ve yet to get granted a cheating McGuffin (it was a close call). > [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Howard Dean, former Governor of Vermont. > > _eeEeaaAAAAAgh!_ Really? You had to do that? ::impotently shaking fist:: I thought about Isaac Bashevis Singer, but that’s kinda lame using middle names, and too lazy to check but I think Douglas Sirk has already been mentioned, so I’ll go with Louis Sloton, who was a physicist and scientist at Los Alomos. He accidentally initiated a fission reaction, and died from radiation poisoning nine days later. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/165 "2018-03-22T10:14:47Z")
> [@Guest-starring\_Id](#): > > Really? > > You had to do that? ::impotently shaking fist:: Well, if you want a guy from the other side of the political aisle, I guess there’s former House Majority Leader — and big fan of Benjamin Netanyahu — Eric Cantor. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/166 "2018-03-22T14:04:32Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Well, if you want a guy from the other side of the political aisle, I guess there’s former House Majority Leader — and big fan of Benjamin Netanyahu — Eric Cantor. Not a Cantor fan, but at least he doesn’t emit disconcerting noises, or at least one would hope. Dolores Sloviter - 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals judge ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/167 "2018-03-22T15:44:39Z")
In that vein, how about Laurence Silberman: a Senior United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit who got awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom after chairing the Iraq Intelligence Commission? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/168 "2018-03-22T15:57:52Z")
At that, if we’re doing Government Officials we may as well name Cabinet Secretaries; Jim Mattis might not count, but Kirstjen Nielsen and Wilbur Ross presumably do. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/169 "2018-03-22T19:25:29Z")
Early cowboy actor Tom Mix ---
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Eleanor Roosevelt ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2018, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/171 "2018-03-22T21:42:33Z")
Carl Linnaeus ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2018, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/172 "2018-03-23T11:44:08Z")
Maurice Sendak ---
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Cheryl Ladd ---
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Evelyn Nesbit ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2018, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/175 "2018-03-23T18:56:28Z")
British artist and designer William Morris ---
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American artist — and creator of DENNIS THE MENACE — Hank Ketcham. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2018, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/177 "2018-03-24T11:24:03Z")
Before the Backstreet Boys went multiplatinum in the ‘90s, the New Kids On The Block went multiplatinum in the ‘80s — with Jonathan Knight’s brother, Jordan Knight, as the lead singer. Which brings me to how the NKOTBSB tour and album led to Jordan Knight teaming with Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys on a “Nick & Knight” tour and album. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2018, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/178 "2018-03-24T13:17:28Z")
Olivia Arias Laraine Newman Chuck Connors ---
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> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Olivia Arias The “uh” at the end of Olivia and “ehr” (or however one would spell that) at the beginning of Arias don’t quite jive, but a cheating mcguffin will go towards that one. Tavis Smiley ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2018, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/celebrities-vips-luminaries-whose-names-phonetically-join-in-the-middle/808912/180 "2018-03-24T16:21:02Z")
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