You know how when Norm Macdonald did the fake news on Saturday Night Live, he had this little theory that "Germans love David Hasselhoff"

I guess I have a similar one too. . . 50% of British males are either named Nigel or Ian. Its started with my sister complaining about it when she was over there. I decided to check this out. I went to news.bbc.com and did a search for 'nigel' and returned the maximum 1000 results. Look at this its insane!

http://newssearch.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/KSEnglish.exe?method=mainQuery&ATNMYFIELD_Headline=&db0=English&xoptions=sortboth&numresults=1000&BATCHHITS=25&querythreshold=50&query=nigel

theres 'sir nigel, nasty nigel, nigel after nigel after nigel!

then look at the Ians! Another maxed out request!

http://newssearch.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/KSEnglish.exe?method=mainQuery&ATNMYFIELD_Headline=&db0=English&xoptions=sortboth&numresults=1000&BATCHHITS=25&querythreshold=50&query=ian

and when you are done with that look at the results with both Nigels AND Ians!

http://newssearch.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/KSEnglish.exe?method=mainQuery&ATNMYFIELD_Headline=&db0=English&xoptions=sortboth&numresults=1000&BATCHHITS=25&querythreshold=50&query=ian+nigel

Whats thge hell is going on here?! What is wrong with these people?!!!!

to give perspective I tried 'Gavin' and got only 572 results, is there some british law I am not aware of that parents must be naming at least one child either name?

-Justin Kelly