Conspiracy Doppelganger Sockpuppet Pseudonym Theory Goofy Crap
Posted by Lynnster on June 7, 2007
I’m not linking to it because I don’t care much for the site, but in catching up reading today, few things have ever made me laugh harder than reading the suggestion that I, Lynnster, and former Nashville is Talking blogdiva Brittney Gilbert are one and the same. Ha!
Frankly, I’m flattered, but no, sorry to burst a bubble there. Not to mention I can see where maybe someone might think Coble or Aunt B., or any number of other NIT bloggers, might be a covert second Internet personality of Brittney’s. But if I were much of a blog/comments/etc. reader, I’d be mistaking any number of those folks for Brittney before I’d be thinking Brittney and I might be the same person.
Things Brittney and I have in common:
- A shared interest in the Nashville blogging community and many of the same friends within that community.
- We both went to MTSU.
- We both live with/have lived with longtime boyfriends.
- We’re both originally from smallish Tennessee towns.
- We both write, or try to.
- We both have dogs.
- Yeah, that’s about it.
Anyway, well, it’s flattering, since I consider Brittney such an excellent writer and a good person anyway, and especially since she is well over a decade younger than me and absolutely cute, but nobody with much of a brain is ever going to mistake us for twins or the same person – certainly not in writing, and especially not in person since not only am I older, but I’m a blonde and she’s a brunette.
But that just goes to show you how reactionary conspiracy theories get started. And I have to agree with someone else, another Nashville blogger that I’m not going to link here, who recently said that people can’t be bothered these days to click on links (his quote), and thus possibly educate themselves more on something (my quote).
And it’s true. A rudimentary and actually very quick review of both my blog and Brittney’s personal blog would pretty much tell anyone that nope, Lynnster and Brittney are two different people. If nothing else, there’s the fact that we’ve both got LOADS of photos on Flickr, and in her Typepad photo albums, that would pretty much prove she’s one person and I’m another. If someone really wanted to dig down and investigate and go through a few more channels, they’d even find a photo of Brittney and I together.
But people don’t want to educate themselves even quickly, or take even a short amount of time to look at stuff that would either back up or refute their idea. It’s easier to not be bothered to click a few links or take five minutes to look around a little bit, and instead just come up with some cockamamie theory and post it on the Web, no matter how stupid one may look as a result.
But that’s okay since, as I said, it made me laugh so much I almost had tears rolling out of my eyes. So it was certainly worth it for the price of my entertainment.
Of course, given the source, since it sprung from the same well that called Brittney a racist, right-wing bigot, it wouldn’t surprise me to see the conspiracy theorist at hand claim that my blog and everything on it – all my photos, my 10+ years’ (hello?!?!) worth of posts, and everything else – was just a front and a cover as someone else’s alter ego because that’s kind of the mentality we seem to be dealing with here, but whatever. It had mucho entertainment value for me, and there’s few people I would be more flattered to be confused with than Brittney – even though it’s totally and completely preposterous – so hey, you know, go for it. For all anybody knows (well, other than those who have met me, right), I might be lying here anyway! Bwahahaha.
P.S. Thanks to my buddy Hutchmo, AKA John H, for standing up over there for me (and Brittney) on this ridiculousness. You’re the bee’s knees, my friend!
hutchmo said
I was backtracking a link from the great ‘B’ debate when I ran across that post and comment speculating you were Brit’s sock-puppet…I snorted loudly and felt compelled to at least set the record as straight as I could. I’m not sure it matters with those folks because they seem to have little interest in what we have to say. I really didn’t wanna bother you with it, it was so stupid.
Kathy T. said
Bwaaa haaa haaaa! I wish someone would mistake me for either you or Brittney! What an honor that would be!! ;)
Lynnster said
That’s OK, John – like I said, it was totally worth it for the entertainment value. I laughed so much I think I came close to breaking a rib.
Hehehe Kathy. I’m still flattered (and flattered again by your kind words), but I had to remind myself too that obviously this person didn’t have a clue about what he/she was talking about either one of us, me or Brittney. LOL.
grandefille said
I always think of y’all as Sifl and Olly, myself.
I’m not sure who’s Precious Roy, yet.
Hee hee hee.
Lynnster said
I have not thought about that show in YEARS… laugh!
I’m not sure about Precious Roy either, but I can think of a few candidates for that violent one… whatever his name was…