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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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edam · 27/08/2008 23:16

what about supermarket shopping lists, then lentil? Are they 'properly female' by virtue of being about sausages and washing up liquid?

Kbear · 27/08/2008 23:15

and PMSL at this thread!!!

Kbear · 27/08/2008 23:14

We saw Ellie Victoria on the M6 last week!

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Slubberdegullion · 27/08/2008 23:12

If it helps a bewildered and bewuthered mner name her dd then it should be our duty and our joy to observe, note and report.

sheesh

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NorbertDentressangle · 27/08/2008 23:10

who are you calling "not properly female"?

Madlentileater · 27/08/2008 23:08

in respect of keeping lists of lorries...
not a properly female occupation imho.

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Slubberdegullion · 27/08/2008 23:05

in what respect lentileater?

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Madlentileater · 27/08/2008 23:04

I thought we were women on here?

sinkingfast · 27/08/2008 23:04

Oh the joy of finding this thread! Saw an Ediie Stobart parked up yesterday but was going too fast to read the name

I'm boggling at the what the sausage child could possibly be called.

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Slubberdegullion · 27/08/2008 23:01

hatwoman, we have yet to establish if Norbert tucks do indeed have names. If they do we have a huge new pool of French names to use.

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hatwoman · 27/08/2008 22:59

oh my lord I so need to go on a long motorway journey. now. always spotted ES and ND trucks but never knew about the names.

I have a teddy bear called Wallace Arnold, after the coach company.

edam · 27/08/2008 22:57

My first sighting: Janice Kirsty. Am so proud!

frazzledoldbag34 · 27/08/2008 22:51

ooh Emilia Charlotte is fab, I like it!

I met a woman at a wedding once and her new baby was called Eddie. She said she'd named him after Eddie Stobart lorries on the motorway which at the time I thought was really weird (and quite honestly I thought she had probably gone a bit mad)!
Aha - But now I see where she was coming from............must drive on motorways more.........

ChippyMinton · 27/08/2008 21:16

Yes! I have finally spotted an Eddie with a proper cab and got a name,if anyone wants it:

Emilia Charlotte

Divvy · 13/08/2008 11:58

Is there a boy method at all...or do you jsut go by the name plates in the front window.....BIG DAVE

DustyTV · 13/08/2008 11:55

I saw a Victoria Lousie on and ES lorry the other week.

LuLuBai · 13/08/2008 11:50

Yes, they are all named after counties and the like. And so is this child.

Inquisitive · 13/08/2008 11:49

I'm sure I read somewhere that William Hague got an Eddie Stobart truck named after Ffion - I always look out for that one...

Bronze · 13/08/2008 11:48

I got DH to do the google version and if we ever had another girl it would be Catrin Meleri. I think it means we should have another baby as I really could live with that. It would fit with our other names well too.

Cannot think of a type of sausage that you could name a boy. Are they not all named after counties and the like.

VictorianSqualor · 13/08/2008 11:46

I know someone who has a child called Lawrence David, I see many lorries with this name.

LuLuBai · 13/08/2008 11:41

Oh I couldn't reveal the name. She might go on MN. But it was a British sausage.

justjules · 13/08/2008 11:30

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LynetteScavo · 13/08/2008 11:20

So what did they name him?

LuLuBai · 13/08/2008 10:50

I met someone recently who came up with an equally novel way of choosing a name for a boy. She and DH got a selection of sausages and named their DS after the one they liked most.

LynetteScavo · 13/08/2008 09:31

Ok, my next DD's will be callled....

Evie Rose, and Lesley Lynette

from the M6 near B'ham.