The Daily Mail have done Camelot a favour by producing some ‘news’ so obviously designed as a lovely bit of PR that you look at the top of the page for the moniker ‘this is an advertisement’.

In this article they list the ‘luckiest’ names stating, “According to National Lottery records, you’re most likely to strike it lucky if you’re called John or Margaret.” What a load of bollocks. That doesn’t mean these names are lucky at all, all it means is that these names are popular.

If you randomly select names out of a hat and in this hat certain names appear more than others then obviously those names are going to be picked more often. Seriously is the author of this article the most gullible human being alive or did they just copy and paste a PR release from Camelot?

The article boldly claims that;

“Among those who have scooped £50,000 or more, the most popular men’s names are John, David, Michael, Peter, Robert, James, Paul, William and Stephen. And the luckiest women are named Margaret, Susan, Patricia, Mary, Christine, Elizabeth, Jean, Janet, Linda and Karen”

It practically reads like a list of most popular boys and girls names. The Daily Mail should really know this because they printed a list of most popular boys and girls names back in February. John the ‘luckiest’ name, in what can only be described as the most shocking coincidence of all time, happens to be the most popular boys name and Margret our ‘lucky lady’ also happens to be the 4^th most popular girls name.

The icing on the cake of this incredibly idiotic article is that it features in the ‘Science and Tech’ section of the Daily Mail website.