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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 · 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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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 21:44

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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Tigerschick · 09/08/2008 21:43

LOL Slubber!! X-posts there

KristinaM · 09/08/2008 21:43

LOL

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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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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norkmaiden · 09/08/2008 21:39

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

TaLcH · 09/08/2008 21:39

GrinGrin

PortBlacksandResident · 09/08/2008 21:39

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

LOL!

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).

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!'