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What's your middle name?  Is there a story or history behind it?

None of the Brierley men have middle names.

That's what my dad has always said, anwyay, and I've always thought that was pretty cool. I chuckle to myself whenever I fill out a form and leave that field blank. I guess it's pretty unusual, though. Most people look at me blankly when I tell them I don't have one. I imagine all those form readers out there in the world, scratching their heads in confusion when they look at my forms.

I don't know how my brother feels about it now, but when he was a kid he didn't like it much. He went so far as to invent his own middle name. It was Michael. He signed all of his first grade papers with it. I'd say that's pretty conservative for a first grader.

Personally, if I was going to invent my own middle name, and I was in first grade, it probably would have been Spider-Man.