> > The people have spoken. Apparently, according to the perceptions of the world at large, I'm 58.1% male and 41.9% female.
> > Excuse me, I'm just going to go off quietly somewhere and have a personal crisis.
>
> [thinks. Grimaces at the headache. Slips into normal semi-intelligent state] Hrmmm... If you *were* a guy, why would you ask me, towards the start of the beginning, why I thought you were male? Unless you'd been careful not to mention pronouns or gender-specific information about yourself to see what happened. I say you're... female? Unless you staged this to make us think that and you're really male. That's it-- I'm going with my first impression of your pseudonym. Unless you want me to second-guess. You must be...
> WAIT! I KNOW! You're not even Brunnen-G, but another person of the same name. Hah! Another evil plan foiled! 'Course it was evil, how could it not be? Don't give me that look....
>
> > Brunnen-"quite a lot of people are wrong"G
>
> Chr"nearly everyone-- if not everyone period-- were wrong when I first came here-- and I'm not alone"is

I never deliberately set out to deceive anyone. I had posted quite a few messages before the subject even came up, and until then I hadn't really thought about it. I don't use chat or message boards all that much, so call me thick, but it actually hadn't occurred to me that people wouldn't know. So I replied to your message in a fit of silliness and whoa, it's just spiralled from there. I'm certainly not staging anything to deceive anyone, or making up stuff so I'll seem like one or the other.

Of course, now I'm not telling people just for the sake of being maddeningly annoying. Seems to be working, too.

Brunnen-"maybe maddeningly annoying should be my middle name"G