The Third Person Thing
December 12, 2002 08:39 AM
The Third Person Thing(TPTT for you acronym freaks), as Nilesh had named it the first time he encountered it when Satyen was randomly walking on snow, seems to be a strange psychosocial behaviour in which an individual gets immense pleasure by referring to himself as a third person. He comments on his thoughts as if he is able to read his own mind and narrates it to the audience, which in turn, gets more pleasure reading it. Nilesh wouldn't call it a mental syndrome as Arnab mentions. It is rather a complex social behaviour, which is nurtured by the almost riotous feedback from the audience. It means that both the writer and the reader mutually exchange the virus before it spreads. There is nothing one can do about it. For that matter, nobody wants it to die. You can see some early sightings of this behaviour here and here. Anyone finding any new sightings, please post the links for everyone's benefit.
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Arnab Nandi said...
...Arnab observes that Nilesh forgot to trackback ping Arnab's blog for this.
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anand said...
anand's favourite film is the film anand, where rajesh khanna plays the character anand which anand liked so much so that this anand wanted to be like that anand.
:-)
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Nilesh said...
Arnab can be happy now that his post has been pinged.
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sonal said...
Sonal is DEElighted that her humble blog got a mention on Arnab's and Nilesh's blogs.
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Sat said...
Sat wishes to remind his readers again that the responsibility of any loss, material or not, incurred by infection by the TTPT virus rests solely on the infectee's already frail shoulders. Sat disclaims all responsibility in these matters.
Sat further points out that the correct acronym for "The Third Person Thing" would be TTPT and not TPTT as posted.
Sat suggests an errata list be posted forthwith.
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Nilesh said...
Errata: The Third Person Thing has "TTPT" as its acronym and not "TPTT" as mentioned on the first line of the post titled The Third Person Thing. Confusion caused by this is highly regretted by Nilesh. Inconvenience caused by the confusion is not regretted.
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Arnab Nandi said...
'doh!
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1. Arnab Nandi said...
...Arnab observes that Nilesh forgot to trackback ping Arnab's blog for this.
2. anand said...
anand's favourite film is the film anand, where rajesh khanna plays the character anand which anand liked so much so that this anand wanted to be like that anand.
:-)
3. Nilesh said...
Arnab can be happy now that his post has been pinged.
4. sonal said...
Sonal is DEElighted that her humble blog got a mention on Arnab's and Nilesh's blogs.
5. Sat said...
Sat wishes to remind his readers again that the responsibility of any loss, material or not, incurred by infection by the TTPT virus rests solely on the infectee's already frail shoulders. Sat disclaims all responsibility in these matters.
Sat further points out that the correct acronym for "The Third Person Thing" would be TTPT and not TPTT as posted.
Sat suggests an errata list be posted forthwith.
6. Nilesh said...
Errata: The Third Person Thing has "TTPT" as its acronym and not "TPTT" as mentioned on the first line of the post titled The Third Person Thing. Confusion caused by this is highly regretted by Nilesh. Inconvenience caused by the confusion is not regretted.
7. Arnab Nandi said...
'doh!
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