Friday, February 26, 2010

Most unfortunate names revealed

IMAGINE growing up as Annette Curtain, Tim Burr, Justin Case, Barb Dwyer or Stan Still.
It sounds like a bad joke, but a study has revealed that there really are unfortunate people with those names in the UK.
Joining them on the list are Terry Bull, Paige Turner, Mary Christmas and Anna Sasin.
And just imagine having to introduce yourself to a crowd as Doug Hole or Hazel Nutt.
The names were uncovered by researchers from parenting group TheBabyWebsite.com after trawling through online telephone records.
Retired airman Stan Still, 76, from Cirencester, Gloucestershire, said his name had been "a blooming millstone around my neck my entire life". But 51-year-old Rose Bush, from Coventry, West Midlands, said she loved her name.
Other unfortunate names uncovered include Pearl Button, Jo King, Barry Cade, Carrie Oakey and Priti Manek.
Researchers also scoured phone records in the US and found some unlikely names there too including San Franciso dentist Les Plack!

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Flying Toblerones!

REPORTS of “flying Toblerones” and objects travelling at 1,100 mph across the Scottish sky have been released by the Ministry of Defence.
The files detail how unidentified objects have been witnessed flying over a range of locations across Scotland.
Among them were one from a senior air traffic controller at Prestwick Airport who reported seeing a fast-moving UFO on the airport radar.
While four fishermen spotted a flat, shiny object hovering off the coast.
The Scottish accounts are among the thousands of reports made of close encounters with UFOs across the UK which have been released in a joint project between the MoD and the National Archives.
Also included in the previously top secret files is the testimony of a West Lothian electrician who spotted a “Toblerone-shaped” UFO hovering over a field.
Another document describes a request submitted to former Prime Minister Tony Blair from a councillor for an inquiry into 600 alleged sightings in the so-called Bonnybridge Triangle, near Falkirk.