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Joe decides that after a spate of threads which have been converted to third-person speech around h2g2, he will create a thread here to encourage the spread of third-person speech.

Joe also assures people that he really is Joe C, and that the 'Laura' and 'Badger' bits in his name are only temporary.

Khamsin remembers the fun they had on the other third person threads

Joe thinks that a thread here will help encourage lots of other people to use third-person speech as much as possible.

Khamsin thinks it could get very confusing

Joe thinks that third-person speech clarifies things, rather than confusing them.

Khamsin tells Joe how he thinks that someone will walk in and talk in first person

Joe thinks that a non-believer will eventually do this, but he hopes it will not be for some time.

Lampie enters and begins to talk in third person...

Another researcher, passing by, offers a further challenge: can it be possible, he suggests, to begin a third person posting with the word "I"?

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EE wonders how long it is possible to lurk in this thread for without posting. EE has just answered this question.

Lampie thinks EE is silly....
She also wonders how many people have/have had 'badger' somewhere in their tagline...

"i wonder what's going on here" thinks Ged, but then he sees a badger and understands.

Joe applauds Ged's effort to start a third-person post with 'I', but points out that part of the spirit of third-person is to avoid direct speech

EE kindly points out that "badger" was in the name before the rise of the "badger" threads, and EE claims not to be a part os the madness

Ak wanders through, stares at the lunatics here, and promptly joins them in talking in third person

Ged lets lose with a long string of curse words after discovering that he cannot use direct speach and so his attempt at being clever has been foiled.

Lampie thinks everyone here is very, very

EE happily proclaims that nothing would be any fun if it weren't for the silliness, and then she starts juggling flaming poodles. Again.

"I, Claudius" annoyed HonestIago so much that he felt the need to come onto h2g2 and talk in the third person. HonestIago was pleased to note that he had cunningly started a thrid person posting using the word "I"

HonestIago was rather annoyed by the fact he wrote thrid rather than third