whenever i see the british athlete jessica ennis i always imagine i can see a resemblance with seamus - it might just be my imagination but has anyone else noticed it? if it is just me please say so
Despite fear of piping blasphemy I must admit she is indeed Seamusoidal.
http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00234/jessica_ennis-2_234411t.jpg
Would’ve been better if she held up a gold ring, but yeah, I see the similarities.
Its hard to tell from this angle as Seamus nearly always wore a suit.
RORY
Rory,
I thank you for that brilliant post! It’s one I’ll be returning to for inspiration frequently!
was that a birthday suit you were referring to?
You’re welcome .By all accounts Seamus had a wicked sence of humour,I hope he’d have enjoyed it. Did you ever hear the one where Willie Clancy and Seamus tricked a boy into thinking that Willie could play a tune on a teapot.Willie pretended to blow into the spout of the teapot and fingering it as if it was a tin whistle while Seamus ,hideing behind the bar played the whistle making the boy think it was willie playing on the teapot. They would have been great guys to hang out with.
RORY
And here she is winning the hurdles race…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnrudoff/4134480542/sizes/o/in/photostream/
So - are they related? After all, there is the name - and James Ennis/Jessica Ennis = J. E. Or is it just another Stan Laurel/Clint Eastwood thing?
Unlikely ,from wikipedia;
One of two daughters born to Vinnie Ennis and Alison Powell,[3] Jessica Ennis has a younger sister called Carmel.[3] Her father, originally from Jamaica,[4] is a self-employed painter and decorator;[3] her mother, a social worker, was born in Derbyshire.[5] Neither of her parents were particularly athletic, but her father did some sprinting at school whilst her mother favoured the high jump.[4] They introduced her to athletics by taking her to a ‘Start:Track’ event at Sheffield’s Don Valley Stadium during the 1996 school summer holidays.[6] In later years she joked that her parents took her to the event because “I think my mum and dad wanted me out of the house!”[7] She won her first athletics prize there - a pair of trainers. More importantly, it was there that she met the man who was to become her coach, Toni Minichiello.[8] She took to the sport immediately and joined the City of Sheffield Athletic Club the following year, aged eleven.[9] In November 2000, aged fourteen, she won the Sheffield Federation for School Sports Whitham Award for the best performance by a Sheffield athlete at the National Schools Championships, where she won the high jump competition.[10]
RORY