A flying saucer landed in New York's Central Park and a large crowd quickly gathered. As they watched eagerly, a hatch slid open and an alien figure in a gleaming silver metallic spacesuit emerged. He announced to the waiting multitude: "I bring you greetings from the planet of Xenon-Alpheria in the galazy XLR-9, two million light years from your planet Earth. Take me to your Leader." An embarrassed silence fell for several moments, then a voice shouted from the crowd: "Can you come back in another coupla million light years?" As the spaceman turned and sadly got back into his flying saucer, another voice shouted: "And bring a good lawyer with you." Roy Stockdill Editor, The Journal of One-Name Studies The Stockdill Family History Society (Guild of One-Name Studies, FedFHS) STOCKDILL PREST YELLOW BOLTON WORSNOP GIBSON MIDGLEY BRACEWELL SHACKLETON BRADLEY MOODY in Yorkshire North & West Ridings MEAD YOUNG in Somerset, Wiltshire & Gloucestershire Web page of the Stockdill Family History Society:- http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/roystock Web page of the Guild of One-Name Studies:- http://www.one-name.org ”Never ask a man if he comes from Yorkshire. If he does he will tell you. If he does not, why humiliate him?" - Canon Sydney Smith (scholar and humorist 1771-1845)