“Yesterday, a knitflame poster who uses the name “troiscoquettes”1, or “3c” for short, began posting a number of vitriol laden but, somehow incomprehensible, screeds complaining she had been banned from the KBTH email list.”

Naturally, I was also curious to double check the meaning of “trois coquettes”. According to Word Reference.com, “Trois Cocquettes” may translate into either “3 flirts” or “3 cuckoo wrasses“. I currently favor the second interpretation. Note “… the cuckoo has strong teeth, both in the jaws (for biting and rasping) and on the pharyngeal bones in the throat (for gripping and crushing) ….”.

is that the same 3c?

And yes, Brandi, it is the one, the only, the same 3C!

She posts sometimes funny, sometimes incomprehensible and always very opinionated things at knitflame. (I also post opinionated things at knitflame.)

The impossible to comprehend one I commented on was the first posts of hers I’d read.

That post was, in fact, impossible to comprehend. You could tell she was angry and you could tell that she’d been kicked off KBTH’s email list. But, the other gripes? Vaguely alluded too.

As it happens, that post was followed by tons and tons of incomprehensible posts at both Knitflame and KBTHOF yahoo email groups during that period of time.

In fact, 3C’s weren’t the only incomprehensible ones. At a later point during that ‘KBTH imbrolio’, two knitters began to cut and paste their their private email exchanges on a public knit list to prove which of the two was worse. Afterwards they began to exchange the ‘F’ word on a public email list.

There were tons of “incomprehensible screeds!”

As to the meaning of 3C, someone did ask 3C what it stood for. Evidently, it’s the “3 flirts” and was the name of some famous designer’s studio (possibly Cocco Chanel.)