"Hello, I'm looking for a Chief Air Marshal Stirrup, first name Jock..."

Reading the Post yesterday, I thought, "Hey, this might be an interesting article" so I started reading..

British Defense Chief Sees Success in Southern Iraq
By Kevin SullivanWashington Post Foreign Service Thursday, October 11, 2007; Page A13
LONDON, Oct. 10 -- The British military has "succeeded in the south of Iraq," but the public has not fully understood that, because top government and military figures created "false expectations" of what troops could accomplish there, the head of the British military said Wednesday.
"We perhaps allowed people to get the sense that our presence there was going to restore Iraq to its former glory," Air Chief Marshal Jock Stirrup said in an interview. Without blaming anyone specifically....

And then I stopped reading. Seriously? The Air Chief Marshal's name is Jock Stirrup? I swear I was reading the Onion or something. Needless to say, I couldn't finish reading the article. I was laughing too hard. If your name is Jock Stirrup, I guess you have two options: Join some sort of professional wrestling league and pretend it's your stage name or join the military.