The Eddie Stobart Method (for girls)

[Slubberdegullion]

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

[solo]

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

[NormaStanleyBelcher]

Fantastic thread

Fantastic idea

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

[gastronaught]

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.

[ja9]

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

[Slubberdegullion]

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.

[gastronaught]

with very clean nose hair.

[Slubberdegullion]

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).

[CuckooClockWorkOrange]

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

[NorbertDentressangle]

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

[Slubberdegullion]

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.

[NorbertDentressangle]

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?!

[Slubberdegullion]

how exactly do you know all these things Norbert?

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

[ruddynorah]

norbert does m&s haulage now they've taken over christian salvesan. so it ain't just clippers and razors in them there trucks, it's cashmere jumpers and blue harbour slacks too.

spent a lovely away day in a norbert warehouse last month.

[NorbertDentressangle]

oh no, busted by Slubberegullion.

No, real reason is numerous holidays driving around Europe (mainly France and Belgium) and also acquired knowledge from DP (he has non-UK European parents so was most probably a "spotter" travelling around Europe as a child).

[Slubberdegullion]

Oh OK Norberrrrrrrrrgchhhhhhh (= gallic phlemmy sound at the end) I believe you that you are not a haulage spotter

[gastronaught]

It was always pronouced Norberrr Dontresongle to me.

[Slubberdegullion]

It was very much Norbert in my head until Califrau proffered the correct pronounciation.

Norbert is still a strong and vital sounding name. Fantasy ds1 still gets it.

[NorbertDentressangle]

It does sound a bit like like a Viz character when pronounced in the very English way.

Slubber -I love the idea of naming a fantasy child (not sure I'd go for Norbert though)

[Slubberdegullion]

Well fantasy ds1 is now Norbert Dentressangle de Gullion (gawd he sounds like an Austrian Prince)

and fantasy dd3 is now Shona Bernice Goldilocks (don't ask...we are following a Tolkein theme with names) de Gullion.

ooh she sounds snazzy

[Slubberdegullion]

What are you saying about my names Califrau ?

[BellaBear]

dh says Norbert Dentressangle means Norbert BloodyTeeth but babel fish doesn't quite agree. Close, though.

[BellaBear]

PS Cracking thread!

[BellaBear]

DH (reading over shoulder) also suggests that for any wusses, you could try it out with a pet first, and then work up to a child if you are happy with the result. Although it would be annoying if your cat ends up Elizabeth and your daughter Trixibelle. Or somesuch.