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  From: <davidn@rebel.net.au>
  To  : Adam Smith <adam@internode.com.au>
  Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 22:56:43 +0930 (CST)

Re: [OT] Spot What's Wrong with This

Adam Smith <adam@internode.com.au> wrote:
> Dame Edna Everage is Barry Humphries' alter-ego, not the other way around

Good point, but I think alto-egoism is transitive.

    ``Latin: alter, other + ego, I, self.''
        -- The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language,
           Fourth Edition


Encyclopędia Britannica also refers to Barry Humphries as Dame Edna's alter-ego
in:
   "Humphries, Barry." Encyclopędia Britannica. 2003.  Encyclopędia
   Britannica Premium Service.  29 Jul, 2003
   <http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?eu=135806>

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