I tried. I guess AK just can't handle your points of contention. (No, AK, Tsing didn't PM me asking me to make the effort)
I saw a movie or sitcom like that where this guy kept referring to himself in the third person. It was really weird. (Not necessarily saying you are really weird - just sayin'..... ya know?)
That's been well established. Some of you guys are far more caustic to him than I have ever been. But he knows he has no leg to stand on with me (go back a while and see all the unemployment arguments I've stomped him on) and so it's "see no evil, hear no evil" (even though "evil" will still be spoken! ).