@autoexec.batman said:

@Youcanmakeabettermovie said:

I wouldn’t call Harrison Davis a plethora.

Plethora? Do you know what the word 'plethora' means? You shouldn't use a word if you don't know what it means!

Yes, that’s why I said Harrison isn’t a plethora. A large amount of Harrisons.

@Youcanmakeabettermovie said:

@autoexec.batman said:

@Youcanmakeabettermovie said:

I wouldn’t call Harrison Davis a plethora.

Plethora? Do you know what the word 'plethora' means? You shouldn't use a word if you don't know what it means!

Yes, that’s why I said Harrison isn’t a plethora. A large amount of Harrisons.

You didn't recognize the quote from 'The Three Amigos'?

@autoexec.batman said:

@Youcanmakeabettermovie said:

@autoexec.batman said:

@Youcanmakeabettermovie said:

I wouldn’t call Harrison Davis a plethora.

Plethora? Do you know what the word 'plethora' means? You shouldn't use a word if you don't know what it means!

Yes, that’s why I said Harrison isn’t a plethora. A large amount of Harrisons.

You didn't recognize the quote from 'The Three Amigos'?

No, I thought that was all you. I saw that movie a long time ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mTUmczVdik

@Youcanmakeabettermovie said:

@Dedoc1967 said:

@autoexec.batman said:

I am almost always referred to by my last name by the people who know me, this is because my first name is extremely common, one of the most common male names in the English speaking world, and as such, I am rarely the only person with the same name. When I was in the third grade, there were 3 other boys with the same first name as mine in my class, and so our teacher actually just gave us a number and called us '1', '2', '3' and '4'.

So is your argument that there is a plethora of Hamiltons and Harrisons running around Port Charles?

I wouldn’t call Harrison Davis a plethora.

Please! He's a Plethora-American.

@autoexec.batman said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mTUmczVdik

Yikes. Looks like a made the right call never watching "Three Amigos". That looked awful. And fairly insulting to Mexicans. Were those actors really in brown-face?

@Dedoc1967 said:

And fairly insulting to Mexicans.

How so? Every character in the movie is a moron. The idea of Mexican Banditos arguing about projectionist psychology 'could it be that you are angry about something else but taking it out on me?' is just hilarious.

@autoexec.batman said:

@Dedoc1967 said:

And fairly insulting to Mexicans.

How so? Every character in the movie is a moron. The idea of Mexican Banditos arguing about projectionist psychology 'could it be that you are angry about something else but taking it out on me?' is just hilarious.

If you say so. Different strokes.

@Dedoc1967 said:

"Hi, my name is Scorpio Robert, but everyone just calls me Robert." Silly, isn't it? I also don't understand this current fad with using surnames as first names: Kennedy, Riley, Jackson, Spencer, Franklin, Quincy. It's bad enough with all the either-way names we already have, like Morgan, Scott, Montgomery and Curtis.

Current fad??

You forgot Mannix. .... Or Cannon ... Baretta ... Kojak ... Maverick ... none of which are current.

How certain nicknames have derived from formal names is more of a mystery to me. How do we get Billy from William? Or Dick from Richard? And why in the world would anybody want to be called Dick?

@Dedoc1967 said:

@autoexec.batman said:

@Dedoc1967 said:

And fairly insulting to Mexicans.

How so? Every character in the movie is a moron. The idea of Mexican Banditos arguing about projectionist psychology 'could it be that you are angry about something else but taking it out on me?' is just hilarious.

If you say so. Different strokes.

The Three Amigos is a lot like the early Marx Brothers movies, there are few overt 'jokes' with a punchline, but rather the humor comes from the audience's sense of bemusement at all the bizarre, slightly surreal things going on. Most people think of the Marx Brothers as being zany, with rapid fire dialogue and 1,000 jokes a minute, but they adopted that style fairly late in their movie career. In most Marx Brothers movies, you just kind of stare at the screen, scratching your head 'what the hell is going on?' That's what The Three Amigos is like, lots of very bizarre situations, but few actual 'jokes.'

@kathykato said:

How certain nicknames have derived from formal names is more of a mystery to me. How do we get Billy from William? Or Dick from Richard? And why in the world would anybody want to be called Dick?

@kathykato said:

How certain nicknames have derived from formal names is more of a mystery to me. How do we get Billy from William? Or Dick from Richard? And why in the world would anybody want to be called Dick?

Reminds me of the sportster Dick Butkus (pronounced Dick Butt-kiss)

Then you could not have ironic terms like KNOWING DICK when talking of Richard Nixon: https://constructedheroisms.wordpress.com/2017/10/07/a-norwegian-in-the-family-book-2-chapter-14-knowing-dick-analysis/

But, subbing a letter for another w names is often the result of a switch of the name across languages or accents. Robert can be Robby, as in Scorpio, or Bobby, as in Frank. That's why William is Willy or Billy and Rick or Dick. They are cognates but also examples of switches from lingos and dialects.

@kathykato said:

How certain nicknames have derived from formal names is more of a mystery to me. How do we get Billy from William? Or Dick from Richard? And why in the world would anybody want to be called Dick?

I forget how old I was- probably 9 or 10?- but I remember the day that I discovered that Jack was a nickname for John and being irritated with the adults in my family for not being able to explain WHY. (Mostly I was embarrassed that I didn't realize that when people talked about Jack Kennedy, they in fact meant the former president. I tried to correct someone and got the smackdown. I needed answers!) I was irritated that none of them CARED why. Even my Uncle Jack (given name, John) didn't know why and had never cared to find out.

At moments like that, I could have used the internet while growing up, though, really I thank God it wasn't around.

The reason why no can answer that question is that no one really knows. The practice of calling 'John', 'Jack', is more than 1000 years old, and precedes the existence of the English language. The most common theory is that it is derived from the Anglo Saxon, in Anglo Saxon, John is 'Jan', and when they wanted to turn a name into a diminutive, they would replace the last letter with a c and add kin' to the end, so 'Jan' became 'Jackin', which over the centuries was shortened to 'Jack'. But this is only the most common theory, adopted by the Oxford English Dictionary, which is the most definitive source. No one really knows if this theory is right.

Another theory is that 'Jack' is derived from the French 'Jacques', but there is no connection between the French name 'Jacques' and 'John', especially since 'Jacques' is actually the equivalent of 'James' or 'Jacob'. You do realize that 'James' and 'Jacob' are actually the same name, don't you?