Personally, I generally use "he" or "she" to refer to anything sentient/sapient (which Orac, IMO, certainly is). So it'd annoy Avon. What do I care? :)

LOL. Betty, can that paragraph also be punctuated as, "Personally, I generally use "he" or "she" to refer to anything setient/sapient, so it'd annoy Avon. 'What? Do I care?'" After all, his persnickityness can actually make him a target of fun.

All joking aside, I brought up the it/he thing because as we moved away from 'only one of them unchanged', I wasn't sure if the discussion was of Avon or ORAC-- and wanted to use 'it' to clarify which of them I thought the original post referred to.