not Andy Kaufmann, more like...

Sherlock Holmes.

say utterly outrageous things simply in order to "tweak" the presumed eavesdroppers or scare away people whom they regard as too timid to be worth talking to anyhow. It's best interpreted as performance art after the style of Andy Kaufmann.

It's also good spooksense: If "it" has no ego, "it" has an objective. If you were to read May's comments to me with an eye between the lines, you might see the true nature of my humiliation; ...but probably not. I like to think I'm giving May overmuch credit;...but probably not. Aimee