Referring to yourself in the third-person; Classic or Dud?

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Nick gets weirded out by this phenomenon.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 19 June 2003 11:54 (twenty-two years ago)

It's not a Classic or a Dud. It's just this thing.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 19 June 2003 11:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Grrr... My youngest sister does this all the time and it's so annoying! Mostly when she's trying to discuss something serious, because I guess it's too hard for her to just admit that SHE has these feelings, not some character with her name. I make sure to tease her about it as much as possible.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 19 June 2003 11:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah Nick, but isn't an overly weird and slightly disconcerting thing? Nick certainly finds it confusing, and wonders if perhaps it's an assertion of ego / assertion in the face of lack-of-ego.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 19 June 2003 11:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Talking to other people called Nick and referring to yourself in the third person in the same post so no one knows who or what the fuck you mean, least of all yourself, classic or dud?

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 19 June 2003 11:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Nick knows what Nick means.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 19 June 2003 11:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Or at least Nick does now.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 19 June 2003 12:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Fucking hell.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 19 June 2003 12:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Nick wonders if someone's talking about him behind his back.

― NA. (Nick A.), Thursday, 19 June 2003 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, HULK SMASH!

― NA. (Nick A.), Thursday, 19 June 2003 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

This is turning into some sort of Jim Davidson routine.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 19 June 2003 12:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Hulk remember cutlery set and cuddly toy, nothing else

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 19 June 2003 12:18 (twenty-two years ago)

it always makes me think of Julius Caesar.

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 19 June 2003 12:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Et tu MarkH?

Pity, I though Hulk would have remembered that single Lady Love Your Cunt by the no mark New Wave of New Wave band from the mid nineties. And the powdered Mash potato.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 19 June 2003 12:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Nick likes this thread already.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 19 June 2003 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

haha apparently there is much academic classicist discussion as to why exactly caesar said "et tu brute" (which he apparently said in greek NOT latin: hence in latin in shakespeare, not english)

anyway, one theory is that it means NOT "not you too mate!!" but rather "YOU'LL BE NEXT FUCKO!!"

i was pleased to discover that this argument raged

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 19 June 2003 12:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Hulk remember cutlery set and cuddly toy, nothing else

Why does this remind me of some text adventure game for the Spectrum? Except it would be 'remembers' not 'remember' and it wouldn't be Hulk. Or a cutlery set or cuddly toy. But it would keep saying this odd thing about some character.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 19 June 2003 13:05 (twenty-two years ago)

We think there are better alternatives.

― Chris P (Chris P), Thursday, 19 June 2003 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I think it works best when you call yourself by a ridiculous nickname that no one else refers to you by. The Manninator is big into ridiculous.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 19 June 2003 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

You can't handle The Truth!

― The Truth (nickdastoor), Thursday, 19 June 2003 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Hulk = classic
Craig David = dud

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 19 June 2003 16:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Gareth and Mary say "Classic."

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 19 June 2003 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

The Jel says it's okay.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 19 June 2003 16:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Tha Horace Mann Boys Choir nods in agreement.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 19 June 2003 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Bob Dole isn't going to stand around waiting for the verdict in this thread. No sir, Bob Dole is a bigger man than that. Bob Dole says classic, because that is how he lives his life. End of story.

― Aimless, Thursday, 19 June 2003 17:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Jimmy's new in town. Jimmy...doesn't really know anyone.
Jimmy's been watching you....you're just Jimmy's type.
Jimmy would like to get to know you.

― Jimmy (Oops), Thursday, 19 June 2003 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Dud unless you are
a) the Hulk
b) a WWF wrestler

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 19 June 2003 20:50 (twenty-two years ago)

c)cookie monster

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 19 June 2003 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I only do it when I'm drunk or when I am in "Mistress Artemis" mode and am referring to myself in my regular/day-to-day life. As in "Laura likes to make bread and read books, whereas I like to play with plastic-wrap bondage and hot wax techniques."

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Friday, 20 June 2003 00:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Referring to yourself in third-person = dud

Referring to yourself in third-person in a rhetorical question = classic

― Lee G (Lee G), Friday, 20 June 2003 13:32 (twenty-two years ago)

"what would Andrew do?" is NOT a rhetorical question.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 20 June 2003 13:39 (twenty-two years ago)

What is it?

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Friday, 20 June 2003 18:44 (twenty-two years ago)

The only question of modern philosophy.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 20 June 2003 18:53 (twenty-two years ago)

(since the 1998 discovery that it was in fact a young Elton John that put the ram in the rama-lama-ding-dong)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 20 June 2003 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, one more time when it's okay: when you're Jerry Lee Lewis. I particularly like it on the magnificent Live At The Star Club album when he joins in the chanting of his own name.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 21 June 2003 15:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Greatest example of this, ever: a guy in Lightning Hopkins' band once told him that he played all wrong, that he didn't play the right number of bars for a chord change. His response: "Lightning change when Lightning want to."

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Saturday, 21 June 2003 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

(since the 1998 discovery that it was in fact a young Elton John that put the ram in the rama-lama-ding-dong)

So was the ewe jealous?

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Monday, 23 June 2003 00:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Matos only does this when he's around Felicity Redwell

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 23 June 2003 00:39 (twenty-two years ago)

seven years pass...

hoos is 5'3

i'm over it, but i used to only want to date girls that were 5'0-5'4

v narrow pool

lol

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 18 June 2011 15:44 (3 hours ago)

― nakhchivan, Saturday, 18 June 2011 18:29 (fourteen years ago)

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