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The Eddie Stobart Method (for girls)

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Slubberdegullion · 09/08/2008 21:23

I have struck upon a rich seam indeed.

Struggling to find the perfect name for your daughter?

Torn between traditional or unusual?

Tearing your hair out on the mn baby name threads?

Use the Eddie Sobart Method.


Get in car.

Drive on motorway.

Come alongside Eddie Stobart lorry.

Read name of lorry on front (R) hand corner (just in front of drivers door, near the bumper).



There you go.

You cannot back out when you have seen your name. The method is all about chance and living on the edge.

For those of you who do not drive, or are not living in the UK, or do not like motorways, or trucks, I have come up with the variant MN Eddie Stobart Method.

Helpful mners will post on this here thread the name they have just spotted on their most recent journey.

To get the ball rolling I give you

Shona

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BirdyArms · 09/08/2008 21:31

Lol, I wish that I was pregnant so that I could do it. When people say 'oh, is that a family name' , 'no, we got it from an eddie Stobart truck!'

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CantSleepWontSleep · 09/08/2008 21:32

Oh fantastic! Will keep an eye out.
(Having ds myself so will offer up my name to someone else).

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PortBlacksandResident · 09/08/2008 21:39

DSis had the horror of spotting her youngest DDs name (first and middle) on one recently.

LOL!

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TaLcH · 09/08/2008 21:39

GrinGrin

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norkmaiden · 09/08/2008 21:39

at names on ES lorries - will keep eyes peeled for one!!

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Slubberdegullion · 09/08/2008 21:42

I always check the name. Up to this point I have not felt the need to note them down, but from hence forth I will keep my ESM notebook in my glove compartment.

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Tigerschick · 09/08/2008 21:43

You do know that there are some sad individuals people who keep a note of every Eddie Stobart lorry they see ... they have a list of girls' names in their glove box or soemthing ...

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KristinaM · 09/08/2008 21:43

LOL

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Tigerschick · 09/08/2008 21:43

LOL Slubber!! X-posts there

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Slubberdegullion · 09/08/2008 21:44

ho ho x post.

yes I am now happy to become a sad individual. I pretty much was a signed up, card carrying member already, pre Eddie Stobart note book

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PortBlacksandResident · 09/08/2008 21:45

You can become an 'Eddie' spotter but to get the full list it costs quite a bit off the website. Geeky and expensive.

Don't ask me how i know this.

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Slubberdegullion · 09/08/2008 21:48

my word, you have to pay to get the whole list? Why would you do that? Surely the fun is just in the collecting and the potential for dazzling adrenaline surge thrill if you spot the same truck twice in a different location.

I'm so going to start a book now.

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Tigerschick · 09/08/2008 21:52
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PortBlacksandResident · 09/08/2008 21:57

Yes you do have to pay to get the whole list. Daft huh?

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pgwithnumber3 · 09/08/2008 22:00
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PortBlacksandResident · 09/08/2008 22:01

£12 a year - so not as much as i initially thought!

£12

And so many names to choose from Slubber!

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Slubberdegullion · 09/08/2008 22:03

pgwithno3

oh no no non no mais NO.

The method is not for inspiration

The method is the choice. You either go with looking in books or tv credits or on mn

OR

you choose the ESM

You HAVE to use the first name you see. That is the law, the Eddie Stobart Method Law.

It's a risk, but isn't it exciting!

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Slubberdegullion · 09/08/2008 22:04
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pgwithnumber3 · 09/08/2008 22:07

Okay, will let you know what you have forced my DC3 to be named when I next see an Eddie Stobart lorry!

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Slubberdegullion · 09/08/2008 22:11

Well if you were a true convert to the method you could always masculinise (not sure if that is a real word. probably not) your appointed name.

So with my ESM name today for a boy would be.................

Shonard ?



I did say it was a risky method

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PortBlacksandResident · 09/08/2008 22:11

Slubber - haven't looked at that website for nigh on 10 yrs. Just remembered it being expensive at the time.

£12 a year = £1 a month. Erm...........

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Slubberdegullion · 09/08/2008 22:13

£1 a month.



That is a whole magnum ice cream I think

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ivykaty44 · 09/08/2008 22:17

you could always name your dd and then get eddie to name a lorry after your dd

or go to wincanton or bridgewater and spot a truck or twenty

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justjules · 09/08/2008 22:19

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Slubberdegullion · 09/08/2008 22:23

omg justjules really? Wow that is really mad. Why would you grass up some poor driver for not wearing a tie?

I wonder what you get with your Eddie Stobart points? Or do you really get loyalty pints?

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