Uri Geller is using his psychic powers to make an amazing prediction.
To all my dear friends,
Whether you like him or dislike him I have got news for you!
Donald Trump will become the 45th president of United States of America!
What is the basis for this prediction?
11 is a very powerful mystical number.
Barack Obama : 11 letters
George W. Bush: 11 letters
Bill Clinton: 11 letters
Jimmy Carter: 11 letters
John Kennedy: 11 letters
Donald Trump…. 11 letters!!
Barack Hussein Obama: 18 letters
George Walker Bush: 17 letters
William Jefferson Clinton: 23 letters
James Earl Carter: 15 letters
John Fitzgerald Kennedy: 21 letters
Donald John Trump: 15 letters
I think he was rigging the numbers to fit.
If you’re not convinced on the importance of 11, please see this page on my website: http://www.urigeller.com/are-your-eyes-attracted-to-11-11/
More significant people with eleven letters in their name:
Sorry, I didn’t bother.
Jesus Christ
Antony Blair
Nostradamus
Pope Francis
Colin Powell
“Jesus Christ” wasn’t his name. “Christ” was a title.
He had to leave a letter out of Tony Blair’s first name to make it fit! Besides, it’s Anthony Charles Lynton Blair.
That’s the latinized version. His name was Michel de Nostredame.
His first name is not “Pope”.
Again, Colin Luther Powell. He seems to have some funny rules for what names he’ll use.
There are so many other historically significant people, places and events that also include 11, or 11.11, read the article, it will blow your mind!
Please let me know your thoughts, and if you are unhappy – or happy at the thought of Donald Trump becoming President, please let me know why, it interests me to hear your perspective.
By the way, do you know of any other people or important events or places that are not on my page about 11.11, please comment to let me know.
Don’t forget to share!
I’ve shared. You’re an idiot, Uri.
Capt. Obvious says Uri is turning the stupid knob to 11.
“Jimmy Carter” has 11 letters.
“Ronald Reagan” has 12 letters.
Reagan beat Carter.
You know who else had has 12 letters besides Ronald Reagan? Adolph HItler.
Besides, why should I trust the predictions of a man with 9 letters in his name?
Not to mention skipping a shitload of presidents.
Did someone just say Eleven? Now I have an excuse to share.
Does this explain why wingnuts think that they have to punctuate what they type with !!!!!11!!!!11!! ?
Hill Clinton?
“Eleven” doesn’t have 11 letters in it, so checkmate, Uri.
It’s Jesus H. Christ anyway.
He didn’t include Harry Truman. What a poseur!
11?
re @1
EVery programmer knows he’s full of it…he’s not counting the blanks. The”names” he thinks are 11 characters long are really 12 characters.
Re: checkonpiggott @ #7…
Or as one fellow I knew used to put it… Jesus Haploid Christ.
Adolf.
…Uh oh. (Hitler was obsessed with the number 7, by the way.)
I also have 11 letters (not counting middle names and blanks). Not tororosoba, but my birthname. Does that make me important?
I think that is a phonetic spelling of how the British pronounce Anthony.
but then again, it’s all BS anyway, so no point in trying to rationalize his list.
As others have noted, many of the names include middle initials while some don;t, and some use minor-forms of their adult name (eg Bill instead of William, Jimmy instead of James, etc).
I’m just noting the misspelling of Blair’s first name may be related to how he pronounces it.
Does this mean we have reached “peak spoon”?
“Jesus” wasn’t the name either, assuming there was a “he” at all…and that seems highly doubtful.
And what about spaces? Don’t they count? They’re sort of the non-letter letter. Barrack Obama = 12 if you include the space.
Uri Geller = 9 if you’re not counting spaces, 10 if you are. I guess he’s not very powerful mystical.
Actually, 9 is also “a very powerful mystical number” in numerology, as is 1, 2, 3, 4…and so forth. From my brief brush with that rubbish, all numbers are powerful and mystical which is, of course, why they can always concoct significance out of them.
Yeshua ben Joseph 17 if you count spaces.
George Herbert Walker Bush 25, counting spaces.
Hiram Ulysses Grant 19 . . .
Sorry Uri, but you’re way off.
Uri Geller is still alive? I guess I’d just purged his existence from my memory, beyond him getting destroyed by Randi way back when.
Whoa whoa whoa. And how many letters are there in “Uri Geller?”
Nine.
And he’s making a big deal about elevens.
We’re through the looking glass here, people…
Isn’t spelling something the way it’s pronounced basically an act of war as far as Britain is concerned?
Hmmm… Dan Henschel. One, two, three… Eleven! Whoo-hoo! I’m gonna be President!!
Methinks Paul Z Myers (10) is just jealous!
@Marcus Ranum #16, there is no spoon.
Jaque Harban has 11 letters. Looks like I’m gonna be the next president!
@16 Marcus Ranum:
I hope not. I don’t have enough spoons to function as it is. :(
@22 wzrd1:
So you took my last spoon? Give it back!
@danielhenschel #21
That must be why people keep calling him “Meyers”
Hm, maybe I should try my hand at politics. I don’t even have a middle name to mess up the lucky number.
Vivec @19
Randi’s name actually came up in the comments on Geller’s Facebook post:
Uri’s response:
Christ, what an asshole.
Hmm, let’s see about some presidential candidates who did not become president:
Albert A. Gore
W. Mitt Romney
Mike Dukakis
Gerald R. Ford
Thomas Dewey
Eugene V. Debs
Alton Parker
James Blaine
James Weaver
John Fremont
William Wirt
Nope, some serious confirmation bias going on here. Strange suggestion I know, but might it be that many US names have approximately 11 letters? [/sarcasm]
@26
Uri’s comment is particularly ironic, given that his repeated lawsuits against Randi always ended with him having to pay Randi’s legal fees.
I wonder how many flowers like fifty grand or so in legal fees counts as.
The last time I heard about Geller, he had renounced his psychic powers and admitted that it had all been a “joke”. That didn’t last long.
I would like to think so, with or without the qualifier “programmer”.
Eh? The eejit specifically says he is counting “letters”. Blank / space is not a letter, except to bad programmers who confuse glyphs with characters, or think all such are letters.
Also, some of the names have more than one blank, so not all of them are 12 characters. And in at least one case, there is also a period (full stop), which no-one(?) has counted: “George W. Bush” has 14 rendered glyphs, and as I typed it (my input) actually has 19 characters (one of the two rendered spaces was entered as
).Yeah, The eejit is not only still alive, he’s also up to his usual scams. Perhaps my favourite (from the short list at Ye Pffft! of All Knowledge):
I assume that’s where the missing spoons are buried.
Jesus’ birth name was Emmanuel.
Dammit: here I thought I was destined to be President.
I think Uri Geller is on something.
The final proof it is quite clear:
PZ Myers – 7 letters
Cthulhu – 7 letters
You see: Both are Great (the ignorants can call them “chubby”) Old (i prefer “with a lot of experience”) Ones.
My handle (“blf”) has 11 letters.
If you count in binary.
And it’s possible to write my name such that, counting in decimal, it has 11 letters.
Does that make me President-for-Life?
How many letters in George H. W. Bush? Or Thomas Jefferson? Or Dwight David Eisenhower? Or Champion The Wonder Horse? I question the relevance of 11.
Besides, you know who else has 11 letters in their name? That’s right. Hils Clinton!
An extinct branch of Islam that included the assassin sect believed in eleven imams, setting them apart from the Sunni and Shia. Yeah, they are gone. So much for “eleven”.
In Stephen King’s book suite about …I dunno, a gunslinger and monsters….the number nineteen played big role. Maybe little Uri should try that instead, considering King has written far more books than him.
And his surname is not Francis.
Although, J M Bergoglio? By Jove, he’s onto something!
Broken clock.
Quick, I need to marry someone whose last name has 6 letters
Uh, Uri… Yeah it’s Bob here, your agent. I said elven! Anything elven is powerful and mystical. Sheesh.
I’m not seeing psychic power anywhere in this 11 business. He may think 11 is mystic, but that list of names could be compiled by the most rigid of skeptics, if asked to fudge around some dishonest numerology. Has Uri given up on the powers, or do his fans not even notice that he didn’t bend anything but names there?
Saad@40: “Broken clock.”
You’ve pushed my pedant button (well, one of my many pedant buttons). The idiom is “Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.” Being “stopped” is only one of many ways a clock can be broken. A clock that is fast or slow will be (for appropriate, broadly realistic, values of “fast” and “slow”) right a number of times a day different than 2; a clock that has been (literally) “defaced” will never be right (in the sense that it will never show the correct time, because it will never show any time); and so on. Moreover, even the idiom as I quoted it does not take account of Daylight Savings Time (supposing that to be in effect in the jurisdiction containing the stopped clock)—for an appropriately stopped clock, on one day of the year the clock will display the correct time only once, and on another day, thrice.
…What’s that? You say my pedant button is actually a snooze alarm? Sorry!
leerudolph, #44
I could care less.
:-P
Hill Clinton.
This is where my mind goes when I hear eleven!
There is only one response to the Drumpf supporters who want numerology to be a thing:
Ronald Wilson Reagan = 6 6 6.
Republicans clearly follow the mark of the Beast.
Or at least the feces of the bull.
Bruce reminded me of a great song:
http://youtu.be/6lIqNjC1RKU
@31:
11/2/09, hmmm 2+9 = 11, QED 11 magic number!!11!!11!1!!!11!!
Sounds a bit Mickey Mouse too me.
Geller won’t get his mojo back until he changes his name to Uriah.
Eep!
And terrible. Just ask Granny Weatherwax, Nancy Ogg, and the other witches and wizards and librarians…
Spoons, however, might just possibly work on the elfs, being metal.
Sour grapes much, mister Paul Z. “only ten, dammit” Myers? Shame about whatever ancestor it was that decided not to go with the more common “Meyers” spelling, isn’t it? If not for him, you could have achieved greatness. Maybe you could have been President, or the Pope, or even a famous fake psychic con-artist.
That’s sort of like the Bible Code, only lazier.
leerudolph@44, A trivial bit of pedantry returned: “Daylight Savings Time”. What is that? There is “Daylight Saving Time” in the USA, and “Summer Time” in other parts of the world, and perhaps other names for the concept or its implementation, but not, as far as I know, “Daylight Savings Time”.
Admittedly, as Ye Pfffft! of All Knowledge observes, the use of the “Savings” form is common in USAian-English.
And a stopped 24-hour clock is correct, at most, once a day (assuming its location is kept constant).
And… ah, forget it, this is silly…
blf #53:
Thus proving that being born with a silver spoon in ones mouth is not always an advantage.
Still an’ all, I’d rather place my trust in a semi-ballistic Greebo.
It’s nice to hear Geller call Carter a powerful president. I’m sure the Republans will agree with him.
The simple reality of it is, do I cease and desis. As one who actually enjoys tripe on occasion, that’s worrisome in the extreme.
So, I enjoy tripe, I loathe tripe being force fed to a populace..
And to be blunt, that’s over cooked tripe.
I was gonna say it’s his greatest trick that he turned a spoonbender into a douche bag, but then I realized he was one all along.
and yet…