Has anyone ever seen anyone but themselves in the "Who's Online" function? Or is it just me?

Did you use a singular "they"?

Did you use a singular "they"?

If only I'd been drinking something when I read that, I could've done a spit-take. Hot damn!

"...a spit-take (the double-take causes the character to spit out whatever he is drinking)."
~http://www.filmsite.org/filmterms8.html

"A spit-take is a comedic technique where someone spits water out of their mouth when they react to a statement. Danny Thomas is sometimes credited for popularizing the use of this in comedy."
~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spit-take

"I invented a certain kind of spit take. You know, you're sipping a cup of coffee, and someone says, "Guess what, Danny, Uncle Tunoose is dead!" and you spew coffee all over the first few rows of the studio audience. That's the classic spit take, but it works just as well with grape soda, or chocolate milk, especially if it shoots out your nose or if you’re sitting on a white couch."
~http://mfinley.com/articles/zany.htm

"The alternative to the masculine generic with the longest and most distinguished history in English is the third-person plural pronoun. Recognized writers have used they, them, themselves, and their to refer to singular nouns such as one, a person, an individual, and each since the 1300s. For example, in 1759 the Earl of Chesterfield wrote, “If a person is born of a…gloomy temper…they cannot help it,” and, echoing this sentiment, W. M. Thackeray wrote in Vanity Fair in 1848, “A person can’t help their birth.”

"Modern writers of note, from George Bernard Shaw to Anne Morrow Lindbergh, have also used this construction, in sentences such as To do a person in means to kill them and When you love someone you do not love them all the time. The practice is widespread and can be found in such mainstream publications as Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, Discover, and Wall Street Journal.

"The use of the plural pronoun to refer to a singular noun or pronoun is hardly restricted to writing, however. Its use is so common in speech as to go without being noticed."

~http://www.bartleby.com/64/C005/018.html

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but it works just as well with grape soda, especially if it shoots out your nose

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Gaaaaaaak! That actually happened to me when I was about 10. It was a humiliating experience...