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At 02:21 PM 12/19/1999 -0700, you wrote:
>TIPS folks:
>To the best of my recollection the first basketball player to constantly
>refer to himself in the third person was Moses Malone (too many teams to
>name them all but I
TIPS folks:
To the best of my recollection the first basketball player to constantly
refer to himself in the third person was Moses Malone (too many teams to
name them all but I remember him playing for Washington, Atlanta, and
Houston). I don't recall any stuttering problems but a con
I remember hearing the story that his stuttering was triggered by saying the
word "I," so he was taught to refer to himself in the third person to avoid
beginning a sentence with I. Perhaps this is what caught the ear of the ad
people at Nike, who created the "Bo Knows" campa
ald Carter Davis wrote:
>
>The recent discussions on referring to one's self in the third person
>(Don Davis has to do what's right for Don Davis!), reminded me of the
>story (possibly apocryphal) about how this whole 3rd person business got
>started...
>
>Supposedly
The recent discussions on referring to one's self in the third person
(Don Davis has to do what's right for Don Davis!), reminded me of the
story (possibly apocryphal) about how this whole 3rd person business got
started...
Supposedly a relatively high-profile basketball player had a
