Winning Strategies for The Name Game

I am in the May edition of Zest magazine, giving pointers on how to remember people's names.  My tips have the dubious joy of being next to a photo of 3 demented women in bikinis.  They have incredibly manic grins, and the middle one in particular looks like she's about to rip somebody's head off with her teeth.  Honestly, look at page 30 of this month's Zest and tell me they don't make you want to flee while your soul's still intact.

Anyway, since the interview, I've thought of a few more strategies for remembering the names of people you meet:

• Only make friends with people of the same name.  To make it even easier, choose a unisex name like Chris.
• Insist that all your existing friends change their names to Chris.
• Never refer to people by name, but as Sweetie, Darling, Honey etc.  If you work in the media you are probably already doing this.  It might raise a few eyebrows if you are a welder from Eccles but stick with it and you might start a trend.