>> What kind of weirdo constantly refers to themselves in the third
>> person, other than someone trying to run multiple socks?

>
> I do it to MOCK Gilmer cause he FREQUENTLY refers to himself as "Yours
> Truly" or in the THIRD PERSON...or "ol' John". Read his blog and a lot
> of other crap he writes.
>
> When he's not doing the above, he uses hundreds of other names,
> including MINE. So, if I use *I* or *ME* in my posts, who knows if
> Karen really wrote it or the various other people I'm accused of being,
> or even Gilmer himself? When I write in the 3rd person, there's no
> doubt WHO is being referred to. Clear?

>

>> Emo thinks this is all a bit strange....

>
> I think you are a "bit strange" for shooting from the hip without having
> a clue what you're talking about. You don't get subtlety, either?
>
> I mock Gilmer's silly behavior on Usenet all the time but even HE is too
> dense to realize he's being MOCKED....and ridiculed.
>
> His writing is so painfully "affected" that a friend and I sometimes
> write emails to each other in his "style"...they are hilarious, but that
> soon gets quite old because his writing "style" is annoying, silly, and
> vapid....like an adolescent who thinks he's being cute and
> "interesting".
>
> PirateJohn is a laughingstock wherever he goes, but he's the only one
> who doesn't know it.