Monday, April 6, 2009

One Down, How Many More to Go? Multiple Personality Poster busted--for awhile

What is it about Rep comments that triggers Multiple Personality Posting Disorder (MPPD)? Victims of this under-reported and little understood mental disorder crank out numerous responses to news stories under different names, sometimes even arguing amongst themselves, turning even the most "safe" news stories into a game of Who's On First?

Although no intervention has been effected for our most disturbing MPPDer, She Who Is Protected for some Inexplicable Reason by the Rep, keen-eyed Kitty Burgett yesterday uncovered another victim of this dread disease Alpha Male aka Bushman, who in a moment of MPPD confusion, posted the same comment under both monikers,

Under Canton man accused of beating convenience store manager with board we find his/her/its/their response to WestElementaryMom's astute sociological observation that everyone she knows in Canton with the last name of Williams (the surname of the board banger) "always has a record a mile long."

Alfa Male:
WestElementaryMom said..every guy with the last name williams that i have known from canton always has a record a mile long.

Maybe that is true, for the ones 'she has known'. How do you know who she knows?

She didn't say 'all williams' or even 90%. Just the ones she knew, could be 100% correct!!

followed immediately by:

bushman:
WestElementaryMom said..every guy with the last name williams that i have known from canton always has a record a mile long.

Maybe that is true, for the ones 'she has known'. How do you know who she knows?

She didn't say 'all williams' or even 90%. Just the ones she knew, could be 100% correct!
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Later in the evening, a regular MPPD-free correspondent posted sensible questions to Rep editor, Jeff Gauger, about how the comment police handles sufferers of MPPD. (I have cut the first paragraph, a comment about the article itself)

Margaret:
I have a question for Jeff at Canton Rep or whoever is in charge today: I know you have decided that it is fine for us to post comments under some unrecognizable name or handle. I have almost accepted that because of the loonies who post here. I want to know if it is also OK for us to post comments under more than one name. Can we use several names (or handles) to post comments? I know we need a different e-mail address for each name and we have to be signed in under that name. So can I get 10 different e-mail addresses with different user names and still post comments? Can I get 10 different e-mail addresses with different user names and still post comments?

To which Alterego, bearing an uncanny resemblance to Alpha Male and bushman, replied brilliantly:

Alterego
Margaret, Yes, Yes and Yes. Or you could just cut and paste like this,

'WestElementaryMom said..every guy with the last name williams that i have known from canton always has a record a mile long. Maybe that is true, for the ones 'she has known'. How do you know who she knows? She didn't say 'all williams' or even 90%. Just the ones she knew, could be 100% correct!!'

In order to make someone look unscrupulous.


Apparently some mischievious reader, unable to control an unspeakable impulse to discredit Alpha Male, hacked bushman's account, and cut, pasted, and re-posted Alpha Man's profound comment in order to suggest to readers that bushman suffers from MPPD.

Ironically, immediately before Alpha Male/bushman sent their double reply, Alpha Male posted the following:

Alpha Male:
OH, OK..if I make a mistake, intentional or not, just beat me with a board. Well that would be the last beating that person gave anyone!! That's why they make cages for animals and/or cemeteries. It's called prison or grave....bye bye

No word, as of this posting, from Alpha Male or bushman. Where could they be? Beating each other with a 2 x 4 while Alterego watches?


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