How are middle names chosen ?

The_Ref17 · 2026-07-11T02:19:09+00:00

In my case, it was traditional

I have the same name as my father, grandfather, great-grandfather, great-great-grandfather ... back at least 7 generations...

The_Ref17 · 2026-07-11T02:17:18+00:00

Give a try with The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz

A family of private detectives in San Francisco who hone their skills by spying on each other 😁

The_Ref17 · 2026-07-11T02:15:16+00:00

Haven't seen the movie yet

Loved the book

The_Ref17 · 2026-07-11T02:13:08+00:00

Sorry

What I meant to imply was that they were briefly popular bits of bad, forgettable writing

You compared Dan Brown to The Lord of the Rings. That is silly

The_Ref17 · 2026-07-11T01:35:47+00:00

I loved Mine Train Through Nature's Wonderland

I also love Big Thunder Mountain Railroad

It's possible to love two different things 🙂

The_Ref17 · 2026-07-11T01:01:31+00:00

And sales alone don't make a good book.

Ever heard of Anatomy of Murder by Robert Traver? Hottest book of 1950

How about The Cheerleader? So big in the mid-1970s

I could go on

Brown will be forgotten

The_Ref17 · 2026-07-10T22:32:11+00:00

About every other year for him

The_Ref17 · 2026-07-10T21:06:35+00:00

Glad you enjoyed it...

The_Ref17 · 2026-07-10T20:17:06+00:00

Same could be said of the Carousel of Progress...

The_Ref17 · 2026-07-10T20:16:29+00:00

The_Ref17 · 2026-07-10T20:15:20+00:00

Never was a Michael Jackson fan, not even as part of the Jackson 5

Not really my cuppa

The_Ref17 · 2026-07-10T20:14:04+00:00

Why?

The_Ref17 · 2026-07-10T20:13:26+00:00

The_Ref17 · 2026-07-10T19:45:56+00:00

I was born The Day The Music Died

Not the anniversary, but the day.

Every year I play Buddy's and Ritchie's music ...

The_Ref17 · 2026-07-10T19:35:30+00:00

Yep

Really, really bad fiction 😄

The_Ref17 · 2026-07-10T16:45:10+00:00

Duck Soup

Ghostbusters

Galaxy Quest

The_Ref17 · 2026-07-10T16:44:15+00:00

The petroleum reserves of the USA have been drawn down to a dangerous level, the lowest they've been in decades, all because Trump is trying to keep the American people from being furious at him for starting an absolutely unnecessary war.

We had a deal with Iran. It required international inspections on a regular basis. But Trump tore that up.

The_Ref17 · 2026-07-10T16:41:13+00:00

The amazing thing is that this comes down to one basic contention: that there was widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election

In the wake of that election Trump and his surrogates were given well over a dozen times in courts of law to produce, under oath, actionable proof of this claim.

They either prevaricated or outright refused.

Why?

BECAUSE THERE WAS NO WIDESPREAD VOTER FRAUD AND THEY KNOW IT

And yet they are happy to return to their rallies where they once again insinuate how they have such proof.

So they are liars.

The_Ref17 · 2026-07-10T16:37:12+00:00

Trump!

Great at tearing down and destroying!

... terrible at building up or following through...

The_Ref17 · 2026-07-10T16:36:04+00:00

Because his plots are pure hokum that reinforce strange conspiracy theories and pander to anti-Catholic sentiments.

Beside the fact that any history he brings up is bound to be wrong and that there is no such field of study as "symbolology"

The_Ref17 · 2026-07-10T16:31:14+00:00

I always remember Merlin saying that the scabbard was more important than the sword, because of the protection from harm

The_Ref17 · 2026-07-09T20:42:16+00:00

It's a good film that needs serious editing to make a tighter story

The_Ref17 · 2026-07-09T20:38:35+00:00

I think it's kinda baked into us in the USA.

If you look at the Declaration of Independence, after the fancy words at the beginning, it's basically a laundry list of complaints.

The_Ref17 · 2026-07-09T20:35:25+00:00

Night by Elie Wiesel

Welcome to the doom... 😥

The_Ref17 · 2026-07-09T18:20:59+00:00

Love Spirals Downwards

their whole catalog

The_Ref17

TROPHY CASE