# Fenris, a question **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 17, 2004, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fenris-a-question/224872 "2004-01-17T01:57:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kurdt\_Kobain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/258eb7/32.png) [@Kurdt\_Kobain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kurdt_Kobain)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2004, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fenris-a-question/224872/1 "2004-01-17T01:57:50Z")
You post a lot of parodies, not as many as you used to, though. You seem to be anti-troll. Yet… -WRT to troll parody threads- What’s the point of parodying people who were here for a few weeks, if that? Who posted all of 100 or less times? You’re feeding them, and worse of all, sometimes years after the fact. That’s making them very happy. Have you honestly never thought of this, or are you happy to feed them? Also: How can you guys manage to remember the troll’s names, their MO, etc., after a long while has passed? Is the board that boring? ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2004, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fenris-a-question/224872/2 "2004-01-17T02:26:20Z")
> [@Kurdt Kobain](#): > > How can you guys manage to remember the troll’s names, their MO, etc., after a long while has passed? Is the board that boring? No it is not boring, it is just that posters that somehow escape banishment are as interesting as accidents. You know: posters that every sensible member sees their name in the op and have to do a double take, because they thought the op was already exiled to silicon heaven. That kind of amazing feat is what IMHO **Fenris** notices, and all normal posters cherish his rants against one trick ponies… [sub][looks at OP’s name.][/sub] Nevermind! :wally [sub](BTW I am not calling you a troll, but a OTP.)[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Blonde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blonde)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2004, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fenris-a-question/224872/3 "2004-01-17T02:35:01Z")
> [@Kurdt Kobain](#): > > Is the board that boring? Yes! In fact, is it beyond boring \ There are so many other boards out there that more interesting - you might want to go investigate your options. ---
**Author:** ![Gadfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@Gadfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadfly)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2004, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fenris-a-question/224872/4 "2004-01-17T02:35:43Z")
Some train-wreck posters are incredibly fun. Like Question, and his bongwater-stained psuedo-science. Others are just really memorable, for various reasons. The Grapist comes to mind. ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2004, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fenris-a-question/224872/5 "2004-01-17T02:42:28Z")
It’s shared experiences that make them special. We all looked, we all saw, we all gaped open mouth at the carnivale of horror unfolding before us. And we all look bad with fond memories at how at one time the Dopers stood as One in defiance of evil and ignorance. And this is why we carry on that torch today. For our present, and our children’s future. Carry on, Fellow Dopers!!! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2004, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fenris-a-question/224872/6 "2004-01-17T02:48:00Z")
> [@Kurdt Kobain](#): > > How can you guys manage to remember the troll’s names, their MO, etc., after a long while has passed? Is the board that boring? It isn’t that the board is that boring. It’s just that there are some One-Trick Ponies[sup]TM[/sup] whose shtick was so memorably loopy that it becomes rather difficult to eradicate from memory. Such as one former member’s obsession (and I use that word in the literal sense) with circumcision. This guy is still the father, uncle, and great-granddaddy of all the One-Trick Ponies[sup]TM[/sup] in my book. Another had a fixation on Englebert Humperdinck. Let’s not go there. Another was positively loopy about phi. I still don’t get this one. Another had a bug up his ass about “hoaxed” moon landings. And so on. The characteristics that so many of them had in common was not simply the obsession itself, which was fascinating enough in a “look at the collision of clown cars” sort of way, but the intensity and the often esoteric nature of the fixation made it a rather remarkable combination to witness in action. It may be fun to watch, and I admit to being entertained by some of them, but ultimately it is an exercise in futility to reason or debate with them. Even so, these monuments of one-note Dopers remain lodged in our collective memories. ---
**Author:** ![fruitbat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@fruitbat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fruitbat)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2004, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fenris-a-question/224872/7 "2004-01-17T02:52:45Z")
**Kurdt** just think, one day you too will be parodied. It is a mark of honor. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2004, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fenris-a-question/224872/8 "2004-01-17T03:15:06Z")
> [@fruitbat](#): > > **Kurdt** just think, one day you too will be parodied. It is a mark of honor. Hell, with his weekly appearances in the pit, and now a direct query of **Fenris** , **Kurdt** ’s angling for a spot on the chowder society’s short list. I wish he’d just **[Get A Hobby](http://www.meetluke.com/ImageThumbNailViewExpand.asp?number=91&iid=2309)!** ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2004, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fenris-a-question/224872/9 "2004-01-17T03:16:13Z")
> [@Kurdt Kobain](#): > > You post a lot of parodies, not as many as you used to, though. You seem to be anti-troll. Yet… > > -WRT to troll parody threads- > > What’s the point of parodying people who were here for a few weeks, if that? Who posted all of 100 or less times? 'Cuz it’s funny. > [@](#): > > You’re feeding them, and worse of all, sometimes years after the fact. That’s making them very happy. Have you honestly never thought of this, or are you happy to feed them? Not really. Most of the people **Fenris** goes after aren’t trolls, they’re idiots. They aren’t posting stuff just to get a reaction, they’re posting stuff that they (apparently, at least) honestly, really, truly believe in. > [@](#): > > Also: > > How can you guys manage to remember the troll’s names, their MO, etc., after a long while has passed? Is the board that boring? It’s called “memory.” People on these boards tend to have long ones. ---
**Author:** ![gluteus\_maximus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f17d59/32.png) [@gluteus\_maximus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gluteus_maximus)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2004, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fenris-a-question/224872/10 "2004-01-17T15:58:41Z")
**[Kurdt Kobain](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=235375)** BANNED Let us all pause for a moment of whining. ---
**Author:** ![cards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@cards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cards)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2004, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fenris-a-question/224872/11 "2004-01-17T16:04:24Z")
Damn it! He got banned before **Fenris** could respond. Now we’ll be denied the pleasure of the royal ripping KK would have gotten, his puerile and profane response, followed by a Fenris _coup de grace_. ---
**Author:** ![gluteus\_maximus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f17d59/32.png) [@gluteus\_maximus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gluteus_maximus)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2004, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fenris-a-question/224872/12 "2004-01-17T16:08:51Z")
> [@cards](#): > > Damn it! He got banned before **Fenris** could respond. Now we’ll be denied the pleasure of the royal ripping KK would have gotten, his puerile and profane response, followed by a Fenris _coup de grace_. If this weren’t the Pit (and please, everyone, note that this _is_ the Pit), we could do a parody of how KK would have responded. Of course, we won’t, because this is not the place for parodies or other forms of joking around. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2004, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fenris-a-question/224872/13 "2004-01-17T16:10:30Z")
You know **Cards** , I find your sig to be quite appropriate for this thread. I have nothing further to add. ---
**Author:** ![eli\_the\_fanatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ccd318/32.png) [@eli\_the\_fanatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eli_the_fanatic)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2004, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fenris-a-question/224872/14 "2004-01-17T16:12:11Z")
Kurdt has been banned? Who wins the pool? ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2004, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fenris-a-question/224872/15 "2004-01-17T16:20:47Z")
I liked this: > [@](#): > > originally posted by **Kurdt Kobain** > _And yes, to take a new AWESOME I GET TO ATTACK **KURT** FOR NO REASON POST from your mouth, I’m sure you don’t care much about my opinion already._ ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2004, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fenris-a-question/224872/16 "2004-01-17T16:26:11Z")
> [@gluteus maximus](#): > > **[Kurdt Kobain](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=235375)** > BANNED > > Let us all pause for a moment of whining. God-DAMMIT! I MISSED IT ALLL!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![heater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/858c86/32.png) [@heater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heater)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2004, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fenris-a-question/224872/17 "2004-01-17T16:41:14Z")
_sigh_ whyizzit that Kurdt Kobains are always shooting their mouths off? [sub]sorry, couldn’t resist[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2004, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fenris-a-question/224872/18 "2004-01-17T17:57:07Z")
Heh, that’s pretty good, **heater**. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2004, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fenris-a-question/224872/19 "2004-01-17T19:09:37Z")
> [@Atreyu](#): > > Another was positively loopy about phi. I still don’t get this one. I must have missed that one. Could you give me a link? I would search, but phi is too short to look up. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2004, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fenris-a-question/224872/20 "2004-01-17T19:25:24Z")
[Here.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=235375) He reached the end of **Lynn’s** patience. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fenris-a-question/224872.md?page=2)