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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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Slubberdegullion · 10/08/2008 18:30

how exactly do you know all these things Norbert?

You have a note book in your glove box don't you?

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NorbertDentressangle · 10/08/2008 18:23

I forgot to say....the German Eddie Stobbart is Willie Betz.

It doesn't quite have the same ring as Norbert Dentressangle but it might provide you truck-spotters with something else to look out for?!

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Slubberdegullion · 10/08/2008 17:30

LOL

All I have to say to DH is "can I ask you for your opinion on something?" and I instantly get a followed by a "this is something to do with mn isn't it?"

Well done Norbert for checking anyway. We drive to the Lleyn tomorrow so I will be keeping my eyes peeled.

Cuckoo, yes, but in RL and all the lorries are girls.

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NorbertDentressangle · 10/08/2008 17:26

We've just been on the M5 (not solely for the purpose of this thread you understand ) and we only saw 1 Eddie Stobbart but couldn't see the name as he was going the opposite direction

Didn't see any of my namesakes either ( double )

Completely out of the blue I did ask DP if Norbert lorries had names on like ES lorries -he just looked at me like this and said "this is something to do with mumsnet isn't it?" .

He knows me and MN too well

CuckooClockWorkOrange · 10/08/2008 16:38

Is that like real life Thomas the Tank Engine for lorries?

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Slubberdegullion · 10/08/2008 13:59

I imagine that's how he managed to implant 176 ladies. What with the silky smooth legs and nostrils. I'd be powerless in the presence of his hairless charms and gigantic pantechnicon (fnar).

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gastronaught · 10/08/2008 13:55

with very clean nose hair.

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Slubberdegullion · 10/08/2008 13:48

I'm hunting for a piccie of the great Norbert. Whilst on his site (and rootling about in the depths of my brain for GCSE French) I have spotted that whilst also owing a most impressive fleet of vehicles, Norbert has also managed 176 implantations.

He is the Ghengis Khan of truckers.

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ja9 · 10/08/2008 13:46

rofl at this thread. it's almost worth having a 3rd child for

gastronaught · 10/08/2008 13:39

I used to work for a trucking firm and I have spent many hours of my life typing invoices to Norbert Dentressangle. The invoices were mainly for over night truck stops, where the trucks were loaded with boxes of nose hair clippers ... or 'feminine' razors.

NormaStanleyBelcher · 10/08/2008 13:35

Fantastic thread

Fantastic idea

No more babies for me, but I would have done it, honest

solo · 10/08/2008 13:33

Oh! ok, I'll keep a look out. I'd probably get arrested if I snoop around the depot
I'd love more babies myself, but Dp is not contibuting, so that may be a little difficult

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Slubberdegullion · 10/08/2008 13:27

hmmm well, so long as you make a contribution that's alright.

I didn't want any more babies until yesterday. Now I need to have a Norbert Dentressangle and a Bernice before I call a halt on my reproduction days.

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Dynamicnanny · 10/08/2008 13:27

Ha Ha this has to be the best method of naming a child.

You could also do the same with busses naming the child the busses final destination - would love to meet Mr sorry not in service Jones

solo · 10/08/2008 13:18

Sorry! but I'll make a note of any I see for all you ladies. Is that ok?
If it's any consolation at all...I wont have any more babies to name anyway.

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Slubberdegullion · 10/08/2008 13:11

oh . That's not really the Everest Spirit I was hoping to see on this thread.

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solo · 10/08/2008 13:09

I have to admit, I couldn't do this to any of my Dc's.

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Slubberdegullion · 10/08/2008 13:02

Thank you solo. To be true to the Method the use of the pin is paramount. The whole thing centres on the topsy turvy world of chance alongside the naming qualities of a national logistics company.

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solo · 10/08/2008 12:56

I pass their depot(well one of them)several times a week, so I could sneek in for you all and give you a few names then you could stick a pin in the list to make your ES name choice.

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Slubberdegullion · 10/08/2008 12:55

oooh a pilot [nice]

A pilot of a jump jet or concorde or a spitfire please. Not a Monarch Airlines pilot I hope.

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motherinferior · 10/08/2008 12:52

He was a pilot. Really and truly.

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Slubberdegullion · 10/08/2008 12:50

MI, was he a giant of a man, with huge sexy man hands? I'm also hoping he was in some terrifyingly impressive academic profession, researching prions in metiorites or something. With his giant man hands.

If you could lie and make something up that would be great. I really do like the name Norbert a lot atm

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motherinferior · 10/08/2008 12:46

A friend of mine married a bloke called Norbert.

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Slubberdegullion · 10/08/2008 12:42

I think it's the way to go Bronze. It may bring back a resurgence (can you bring back a resurgence? I think not. Is resurgence spelt correctly? Unlikely)

where was I......

oh yes

restart a wave of double barrelled first names and possibly in 20 years time herald the advent of a British female Country and Western musical explosion, the likes of which we have never seen before.

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Bronze · 10/08/2008 12:33

Just discovered my dd does in fact have a memorable eddie stobart name so if I ever do have another I may just have to use the Stobart method.