The Jeff(rey) Rhodes Project - Jeff-ERY Rhodes Debacle

Perhaps they exist, but I have never seen in the history of the planet a person named Jeffrey spell their name Jeff-ERY. I have seen Geoffrey and Godfrey and Jeff and Jeffrey and Jefferson and million other variations but not the dreaded ERY. It is one of those misspellings that when it occurs and you correct someone they give you the ol' shrug and 'whatever'. Whatever?

'What's the difference?' What's the differenece!

To quote a good friend of mine, "One is my name and the other is not!"

Now that I've become friends many Jeffrey Rhodes' around the world, I'm curious to know their take. Interestingly enough, more people get the Jeffrey-part wrong than they get Rhodes-part wrong.

Side note: This is normally the type of blog entry I would just keep to myself but since I've come to realize there are many more Jeffrey Rhodes' than I had ever imagined, I'm running with it.

Jeff(rey) Rhodes Project - Pt. 2

Update! As I learn more and more about my fell Jeff Rhodes', I'm doing a census of sorts to figure out all of my alternate realities.

So far, I've become friends with 23 Jeff Rhodes' around the world. It's a pretty diverse group of Jeff Rhodes', the only constant being that they are male and they have some command of the English language. Due to privacy concerns, I cannot in good conscience mention to which Jeff Rhodes I am referring to, though due to the nature of this post, it is safe to assume that their names are indeed Jeff Rhodes:

*Texas Jeff
*Pennsylvania Jeff x 4
*Tennessee Jeff
*UK Jeff
*Virginia Jeff x 2
*Massachusetts Jeff
*California Jeff (besides me)
*Arkansas Jeff
*Arizona Jeff
*New York Jeff
*Ohio Jeff
*Mississippi Jeff
*North Carolina Jeff
*Florida Jeff
*Australia Jeff... "is looking forward to playing cricket today in 41 degree heat."
*Indiana Jeff

*A few I can't tell where they're from...

Uncool Hollywood Report - 1/8/10

The Jeff(rey) Rhodes Project - Pt. 1

Jeff Rhodes (left) enjoying a little time with his pal Jeffrey Rhodes (right).

So I'm traveling time from Seattle to LA and I get out of my meeting early and dash to the airport as fast as I can to try and get an earlier flight. When I swipe my credit card, I notice that the kind folks at Northwest Air had already put me on an earlier flight. Great. I board the plane, grab my seat, and close my eyes. Some dude walks up tells me I'm sitting in his seat. I double check my boarding pass, double check my seat number and politely tell him he's wrong. He goes to the flight attendant. The flight attendant comes back and asks for my boarding pass. I oblige and hand it to her. She compares my boarding pass to his boarding pass, "Which one of you is Jeffrey Rhodes?"

We both raise our hands.

This is the first confirmed meeting I've had with another Jeff Rhodes. I thought it was kind of funny. The other Jeff Rhodes was kind of a jerk. I was hoping to compare Jeff Rhodes notes but no dice.

So it got me thinking about how many Jeff Rhodes' there are out in the world. Who are they and what do they do? So I decided to become friends with as many Jeff Rhodes' as I could find. I've started with Facebook and sent friend requests to 272 different Jeff or Jeffrey Rhodes'.

So far:

One Jeffrey Rhodes is a high school kid from Indiana.
One Jeff Rhodes is from Mississippi
More than a few Jeff Rhodes' seem to be from Ohio
One Jeff Rhodes likes to play games on Facebook
Another Jeff Rhodes doesn't like people who play games.

Further reports to come on the Jeffrey Rhodes universe as I make friends with my found pals...