We even got a sort of namecheck.

Her son gets a namecheck - he's off to Iraq soon - and stands to receive a portion of the almost constant applause.

George Osborne gets his namecheck.

The only surprise is that Bernard Stiegler didn't get a namecheck.

Even price comparison websites get a namecheck in this whirlwind nine-page tour through Britain's internet landscape.

Initially the band was called "Foster & The People," a simple namecheck to Mark.

In Chapter 8 the author gives herself a namecheck from the mouth of the young boy, Peter Carmody.

They would receive a brief namecheck in The Transformers: Spotlight issue on Shockwave.

And this despite a namecheck from Meryl Streep as she collected her Golden Globe for The Iron Lady.

'Aggro Santos dot com' gets a namecheck, as does Facebook, which is the kind of product placement Lady Gaga does in her videos.

The Department of State's Passport Namecheck Clearance System is a system to alert you when an application for a U.S. passport is made.

Neither feature on the current list and as Oscar nomination ballots were due last Friday before the Golden Globes, it would seem Meryl Streep's namecheck will have little impact with Academy voters.

Davis also received a namecheck in a Duran Duran song entitled "Friends of Mine" on the album Duran Duran (1981): the chorus begins "Georgie Davis is coming out".

Another namecheck occurs in Rafi Zabor's PEN/Faulkner-award winning 1998 novel The Bear Comes Home, where the name is used as a nickname for good-natured but unrefined minor character Tommy Talmo.

In Roshandel v. Chertoff, the District Court certified the district wide class of applicants for naturalization whose applications had not been timely adjudicated after their interview, as a result of the agency's failure to complete the namecheck.

Nice to see Les Dawson getting a namecheck from Bill - a comedian from a time when winners of tv talent shows actually did possess talent; his dour unsmiling and depressed club-comedian persona seemingly later channelling intact directly through to Jack Dee.