BillyTheMountain, a kook?

[monkeyman]

According to this site…

2. kook: a regular poster who continually posts messages with no apparent grounding in reality. The kook trademark is paranoia and grandiosity. Kooks will often build up elaborate imaginary support structures, fake corporations and the like, and continue to act as if those things are real even after their falsity has been documented in public. While they may appear harmless, and are usually filtered out by the other regular participants in a newsgroup or mailing list, they can still cause problems because the necessity for these measures is not immediately apparent to newcomers; there are several instances, for example, of journalists writing stories with quotes from kooks who caught them unaware. See Crank Dot Net | Usenet kooks for more info.
   Some people have dedicated their lifes to expose kooks, and they will warn you that ‘It is important to note the subtle distinction between a net.kook, a net.cretin, a clueless newbie, troll, or garden-variety @$$hole. The newbie, one hopes, can acquire a clue on the installment plan even if he can’t afford to buy one for cash; the cretin is merely stupid and/or irritating; the troll is purposely pulling your leg like it got caught in some heavy machinery, the @$$hole is, well, simply that. But a TRUE net.kook has a special fascination derived from his/her/its utter ineffability. Their behavior is irrational, if not downright weird, but they are seldom merely boring’
   A very interesting Kookologists’ Manifesto is “The way of the Kook”, this makes very good reading and it is much more informative as it may seem at first.

Discuss.

[JJtheunicycle]

+1, it’s like he had restricted airflow in the birthing canal and now he’s semi retarded…(just kidding BTM, you rock)

[forrestunifreak]

@JJtheunicycle

it’s like he had restricted airflow in the birthing canal and now he’s semi retarded…

Hmm, that wouldn’t feel very good…

[wickedbob]

@JJtheunicycle

+1, it’s like he had restricted airflow in the vagina thingy and now he’s semi retarded…(just kidding BTM, you rock)

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[Borges]

@monkeyman

Kooks will often build up elaborate imaginary support structures, fake corporations and the like, and continue to act as if those things are real even after their falsity has been documented in public.

Exactly. Like this mythical “Wal-Mart” he allegedly works for.

[UniBrier]

Whatever you do, don’t confuse a kook with a Koek.

[dudewithasock]

@UniBrier

Whatever you do, don’t confuse a kook with a Koek.

Is that a naughty Dutch term or something?

[UniBrier]

The older forum members probably got it. My last name is DeKkkk (I don’t like putting my name out on the internet, therefore the ** for “oe”). I haven’t been called a naughty Dutch anything for quite a while.

[john_childs]

My definition of a kook is a Keeper Of Odd Knowledge. That odd knowledge being of the conspiratorial kind. The more elaborate and convoluted the conspiracy the more kooky the kook is.

[monkeyman]

@UniBrier

The older forum members probably got it. My last name is DeKkkk (I don’t like putting my name out on the internet, therefore the ** for “oe”). I haven’t been called a naughty Dutch anything for quite a while.

That’s actually your last name? That’s cool. Mine’s kinda boring. Brown. Whoopdeedo.

[dudewithasock]

@monkeyman

That’s actually your last name? That’s cool. Mine’s kinda boring. Brown. Whoopdeedo.

Now if your last name was Whoopdeedo, that’d be crunk.

@The Dutch Koek

I haven’t been called a naughty Dutch anything for quite a while.

The fact that you were once referred to as naughty and Dutch in the same sentence is quite unsettling.

[UniBrier]

@dudewithasock

naughty and Dutch in the same sentence is quite unsettling.

Ever heard the phrase: “Hotter than Dutch love in a haymow.”?

[dudewithasock]

@UniBrier

Ever heard the phrase: “Hotter than Dutch love in a haymow.”?

Nope. Must be a generation gap thing, you creepy geezer.

[wobbling_bear]

@monkeyman

Discuss.

I won’t qualify Billy as a “kook”. As a matter of fact I like his surrealistic, ultra-liberal , provocating humour.
As usual when you are kidding you are creating in some way a parrallel world.
Worlds of fiction are interesting because they can teach us a thing or two on the “real” world.
(BTW can someone show me the way to the “real” world? I’m lost!)

[monkeyman]

@wobbling bear

I won’t qualify Billy as a “kook”. As a matter of fact I like his surrealistic, ultra-liberal , provocating humour.

The only people who don’t are the ones who don’t understand it.

[BillyTheMountain]

Frank Zappa immortalized me in a song well over 30 years ago, and was planning an updated version, a kind of BTM 2.0.

It would have covered how a truly tree-hugging (Hi Ethel!!), postcard-posing, royalty-collecting, boulder-hocking, draft-dodging, slow-talking mountain could get a Wal-Mart job and be selected as King of the Atheists. Whew!

After winning medals and ribbons at two NAUCCs (Toronto and Washington State), they hired Blake “Podzol” the soil scientist to test soil samples from my shoulder, to see if I used performance-enhancing drugs. None found.

For centuries people had been asking the wise men how to move mountains. The simple answer has always been: Become the Mountain, and then move.

Thank you! and

Peace!

BTM

[JJtheunicycle]

So has anyone ever met BTM in real life?

[BillyTheMountain]

@JJtheunicycle

So has anyone ever met BTM in real life?

See posts by EthelTheTree and Studebaker Hoch. Ethel is my wife, and Studebaker can tell you about the time I totaled his car.

[dudewithasock]

He’s lying. BTM doesn’t actually exist - he’s an anomaly in our universe.

[JJtheunicycle]

@dudewithasock

He’s lying. BTM doesn’t actually exist - he’s an anomaly in our universe.

Just as I expected…