>>>Use of these is getting worse. Some examples, not from real life, but typical of what I've experienced/heard a lot lately:
>>>
>>>"Hi Mr McDonnell. I was wondering if our offer has reached yourself yet."
>>>"Could you manage to make payment to ourselves by the end of the week."
>>>"We're sending the order to yourselves direct."
>>>"There's just myself and yourself here."
>>
>>Don't you just love those? In fact, a couple of my friends were talking to myself about this just the other day. ;)
>
>The moronic rule of thumb would appear to be "if the sentence requires a pronoun, replace it with one of those pronouns with 'self/selves' on the end"

Yeah, drives me nuts, too. Here's what I have about this on my website (http://www.tomorrowssolutionsllc.com/writingtips.htm):

Don't abuse the "self" words. These words ("myself," "yourself," etc.) belong in a sentence only if the corresponding pronoun has already appeared. For example, this is correct:

"I'll take care of it myself."

But this is wrong:

"He had a meeting with John and myself."

That should be:

"He had a meeting with John and me."

Tamar