Catherine, HA! Okay, there you go. The stories of this stuff are legion. On the Poem message board he invented a load of different personae, one of whom was a very annoying young man called carlton, if I recall correctly. (This being the name of the doorman in Rhoda should have tipped me off immediately.) This character used to spouht such annoying drivel that I got into argument after argument with him. Much later I found out that everyone except me knew it was Michael, but he had forbidden them to tell me, because I was giving such good value. (My reaction to this disclosure is not the point of the story.) After he died, and after that discussion forum had gone south, the erstwhile webmaster of the site - another poet, AB Jackson - sent me an email one day, where he had managed to salvage a page of the forum. It was a group of characters having a heated debate among themselves, complete with inappropriate ad hom remarks, and every one of them is Donaghy. The only other person is me, halfway through the thread, and my whole comment is: "LOL."
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