michael-in-phoenix
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...who says Horace is the alter ego of a psychiatrist who works with him.
From the blog:
JUNE 25, 2004 @ 04:43 PM
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I had an interesting conversation with this psychiatrist who works in my lab. It seems in his spare time he's created this alter ego called Horace P. Osterdonk (if you google his name you'll find him in a few message boards, he's pretty funny) and posted on a couple of different internet forums with this name, seeing what sorts of responses he gets. Horace is apparently a "friendly, if not quite-so-bright chap from out of town" and provokes the most interesting reactions from people he interacts with. His posts are mainly nonsensical, but in a jovial enough fashion; he's vaguely reminiscent of Balky Bartokomos from the 80's show "Perfect Strangers." Some of the members find him endlessly amusing, and seem to be happy when he comes back after long absences (the psychiatrist is pretty busy). Some of them get virulently angry at him though, and seem to take out all of their aggression on this poor, unsuspecting person.
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There was nothing more on Horace. The blog was some weird heavy-metal rock thing that I don't dare link to, as the rest of the site was inappropriate, in my view.
Interesting...
Michael
From the blog:
JUNE 25, 2004 @ 04:43 PM
401226
I had an interesting conversation with this psychiatrist who works in my lab. It seems in his spare time he's created this alter ego called Horace P. Osterdonk (if you google his name you'll find him in a few message boards, he's pretty funny) and posted on a couple of different internet forums with this name, seeing what sorts of responses he gets. Horace is apparently a "friendly, if not quite-so-bright chap from out of town" and provokes the most interesting reactions from people he interacts with. His posts are mainly nonsensical, but in a jovial enough fashion; he's vaguely reminiscent of Balky Bartokomos from the 80's show "Perfect Strangers." Some of the members find him endlessly amusing, and seem to be happy when he comes back after long absences (the psychiatrist is pretty busy). Some of them get virulently angry at him though, and seem to take out all of their aggression on this poor, unsuspecting person.
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There was nothing more on Horace. The blog was some weird heavy-metal rock thing that I don't dare link to, as the rest of the site was inappropriate, in my view.
Interesting...
Michael