Speaking for myself, I thank you.
I know this is friendly rivalry between Sydney and Melbourne. But do others realise?
This is not the pit, is it?
Oh, woe is I!
I support your work.
Apparently Melburnians also don’t, I mean do not, believe in common contractions. Instead, their language comes through as stilted and anachronistic.
StG
I posted about “myself” being overused and misused in another thread (the most overused word thread… duh), but I have to say: you’re going to make yourself unpopular and make life just a tiny less pleasant for people. It’s not worth it.
“Any questions please ask myself” has a clear meaning. It’s not the proper use of the word, but meanings change. I can’t think of a way to read that memo except “please ask the person who wrote this memo.” Definitions change. “Myself” bothers me because it’s a little pretentious.
Eh, those two are good mates. Few around here would take what kambuckta said to him seriously, blinkingblinking. Didn’t know Tooheys was lethal anyway. Except maybe in above medicinal dose concentrations … 
Just a question, though: apart from the usage of “myself” being grammatically incorrect, as you’ve pointed out, why would it be confusing in the contexts cited? If someone uses “me” or “myself”, surely they’re still referring to the first person singular?
Okay, so, I have no idea what kind of misuse you guys are talking about.
Please examples, please?
-FrL-
The sentence in the Pit thread that had blinkingblinking stepping in was “Our lab is very small - just Rob the Aussie, Dr. Boss and myself – and has worked closely with the DH for several years.” From here.
So, you plan to correct Chaucer:
And, of course, that language illiterarte, William Shakespeare:
Or Samuel Richardson:
And that hack Thomas Hardy:
Not to mention William Butler Yeats
But I guess you know more than they do.
Possibly what blinkingblinking was getting at, but unfortunately in a way that got up folks’ noses.