In defense of foreigners, I’m not so sure he’s foreign. I find his grammar problems inconsistent and suspect it a ruse – a bold and cunning subterfuge to hide his real identity…
Yes, from the linguistic point of view, the errors are rather forced and pseudo-random. If I had the time I’d do an analysis. Or are the posts encoded? Is he really using his doggerel to send secret messages to someone or about someone on this board? The plot thickens……
Hello Scully, oops, I mean Sherry……you are such a clever cookie! Yes, it is a code, I see it all now…it has nothing to do with harps, harp companies or harpists at all……
Maybe it is the same alien who imprisoned Kim for a few days so that she had to gnaw her leg off to escape so that we could all enjoy Harp Column again. Or..wait!! Do you think it was he who built the Satanic Troubadour??
I think that Elizabeth is on the right track. I don’t think that it’s the alien that imprisoned Kim or built the Satanic Troubadour……I think that John Doe is the alien’s understudy or assistant. He distracted the alien so Kim could free herself and escape. The alien’s understudy is aware of all the sabotage that is going on, and is trying to warn all of us, yet protecting himself by using an alias. By remaining underground, John Doe
I suspect a guy who is really into harps and how they are made, who rarely posts here, but wanted to be able to dump off his gossip overload. Still a mystery.
John, where are you? Come home!! Come home, alreddy. We are missing you. The little chldrens are missing you. Why did you leaf us? Your harp strings are all broken and it smelss funny! I wont give you any mony unless you come home!