# Jeremy Irons **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 19, 2010, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-irons/554268 "2010-09-19T08:56:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_jeffrey_lebowski/32/215_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Jeffrey_Lebowski)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-irons/554268/61 "2010-09-21T06:25:15Z")
Annie Potts ---
**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:** [September 21, 2010, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-irons/554268/62 "2010-09-21T13:28:50Z")
[quote=“panache45, post:52, topic:554268”] > [@cochrane](#): > > And here’s a presidential one: Franklin Pierce. Brings to mind Benjamin Franklin Pierce and Hawkeye Pierce ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-irons/554268/63 "2010-09-21T14:19:51Z")
[Michael Roe](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Roe) (his 1996 album was called “The Boat Ashore”) ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-irons/554268/64 "2010-09-21T18:25:52Z")
Roy Rogers ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-irons/554268/65 "2010-09-21T22:37:35Z")
I don’t get it ☹ And I WANT to get it… ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-irons/554268/66 "2010-09-21T23:33:59Z")
Joan Rivers Rowdy Gaines Mark May and my favorite Harry Reams ---
**Author:** ![Normal\_Phase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Normal\_Phase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Normal_Phase)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-irons/554268/67 "2010-09-21T23:53:01Z")
Ayn Rand. (In three-year-old grammar.) Tom Cruise. Penelope Cruz. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-irons/554268/68 "2010-09-21T23:56:25Z")
John Mills (and Hayley too) [Gordon Parks](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Parks) [Evelyn Keyes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Keyes) [John Maynard Keynes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynes) ---
**Author:** ![Normal\_Phase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Normal\_Phase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Normal_Phase)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-irons/554268/69 "2010-09-22T00:02:57Z")
Sheryl Swoops. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-irons/554268/70 "2010-09-22T01:13:20Z")
Wally Cox Timothy Bottoms Brian Cox Hayley Mills John Mills Orson Welles Virginia Mayo (money) Jayne Meadows Elaine May Anita Loos (Brit you know) Kay Lenz Tran Anh Hung Robert Hays Sid Caesar Joanne Dru David Dukes (1945-2000) Zazu Pitts John Chambers Yakima Canutt William S. Burroughs Ellen Burstyn George Burns Paul Bowles Ben Blue Kathy Bates Lew Ayres Mary Astor Woody Strode Don, Ameche! ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-irons/554268/71 "2010-09-22T22:43:57Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > I don’t get it ☹ And I WANT to get it… > [@notfrommensa](#): > > Joan Rivers > Rowdy Gaines > Mark May… > > Harry Reams According to the OP, in this post for instance, only R. Gaines and H. Reams fit, as the name together forms a grammtically correct sentence. Rivers does not. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-irons/554268/72 "2010-09-23T01:23:53Z")
> [@descamisado](#): > > According to the OP, in this post for instance, only R. Gaines and H. Reams fit, as the name together forms a grammtically correct sentence. Rivers does not. “Mark May” works too (as the answer to the question, “Is Mark going?”, for example). ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-irons/554268/73 "2010-09-23T01:27:02Z")
You’re right; I was editing and, because I didn’t go back to the beginning of the sentence, kind of glossed over that one. Though technically fitting the OP, Mark May, in answer to _your_ question, is ungrammatical. Mark Might might work. 😃 Oh, and Junior Samples and Tommy Smothers. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-irons/554268/74 "2010-09-23T01:30:36Z")
> [@Ignatz](#): > > Orson Welles > Virginia Mayo (money) > Jayne Meadows > Anita Loos (Brit you know) > Kay Lenz > David Dukes (1945-2000) > Ellen Burstyn > Mary Astor > Don, Ameche! Some of these seem rather :dubious:, but maybe I’m not reading them correctly. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-irons/554268/75 "2010-09-23T01:32:16Z")
> [@descamisado](#): > > Though technically fitting the OP, Mark May, in answer to _your_ question, is ungrammatical. Mark Might might work. Oh, very well then Miss Grundy ;). “May Mark go to the party?” ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2010, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-irons/554268/76 "2010-09-23T02:03:34Z")
No, he may not. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2010, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-irons/554268/77 "2010-09-24T18:25:40Z")
How about Guns/Roses member: Izzy Stradlin [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jeremy-irons/554268.md?page=3)