Argh, it is getting to be an epidemic of knock off threads lately. If a thread gets popular you can be sure that someone will change the OP just slightly and start another thread. Jeesh are you that needy for attention that you have to rip off someone else’s idea for a thread? Cafe Society and MPSIMS have been overrun with these damn things. In the last 2 weeks there has been plenty of evidence of this offense- take a look and see. So let’s stop cribbing off of your neighbor and come up with your own ideas people. :mad:
Ok, pointless rant #2. Stop talking about yourself in the third person. Do you realize how stupid you sound? How pompous? Are you Royalty? George Constanza? A professional athlete? No? Then do not do this, especially in the subject line. :rolleyes:
Ok, I feel much better. You may now return to a more important rant about the post-office or idiot co-workers. Or feel free to heckle me for such a mild rant (no cursing or accusations of canial-rectal inversion).
You do realize, of course, that practically everyone who responds to this thread will refer to themselves in the third person, don’t you? Ferrous can assure you that they will.
I don’t get why some people feel the need to tell others what kinds of threads to start. The board is remarkably self-regulating that way. If people like the threads, they are popular. (Hmm…that’s quite a tautology, or something…) If people don’t like them, they won’t respond, and the thread dies. :shrug:
Ferrous would have some beef for bella, if he didn’t know she already had a sweetie, and didn’t live so far away…but for elfie, no. No beef for elfie. Elfie, as far as Ferrous knows, has too few X chromosomes for Ferrous’ tastes.
Ferrous, elf6c can never condone the use of the third person, although the thread title was a red flag to the bull’s of the Pit to come into the thread and “third person” it but good.
While elf6c would never tell someone what they could or could not say- but elf6c reserves the right to make fun of the copycats a bit.
Hey belladonna, I think Ferrous is right-- too few X chromosomes for some of that hot steamy free beef donation. Oh well. . . .
Are you complaining about people who talk about themselves in the third person (e.g. Kat is confused. She wonders if you are actually complaining about people who talk about themselves in the third person) or about people who use the first person plural (aka the “Royal We”, e.g. We are confused. We wonder…). Royalty, as far as I know, do not refer to themselves in the third person, but in the first person plural. Not that you can’t dislike both, but I needed to make this post longer than one line.
My actual question: Kat doesn’t recall George Costanza referring to himself in the third person. When did he do that?
It was the episode where he met some guy at the gym wo referred to himself in the third person constantly, in an attempt to be cool. George developed a “man-crush” on this guy and started emulating his behavior. I don’t recall much else about the episode, but I remember laughing out loud a few times. (which was par for the course with Seinfeld.)
George is getting angry!
There was an episode where Susan started hanging out with Jerry and Elaine, and George was upset about “Independent George” and “Relationship George” merging.
elf6c offers a hot apple pie to Guin in a shameless attempt to curry favor.
elf6c noting the sobbing Fenris, offers a complete dispensation for any prior offenses and a Dove bar to cheer him up. Makes mental note to lock the knife drawer next time . .
And, indeed, “George is getting angry!” was a classic line. One I still use to this day.
You’re correct up to the man-crush part. George actually had the “non-sexual crush” on the pretty boy Elaine was dating for a while. They went rock-climbing with Kramer and pretty boy wound up getting uglified.
The episode with Jimmy (“Jimmy’s gettin’ angry!!”) is one of those non-sequitur episodes where the cause and the effect have no real connection. George just starts saying things in the 3rd person for no discernable reason other than making it possible to have the “Why would George steal from the Yankees?” scene with Big Stein.
