Sorry, I should have elaborated. What I disagreed with was that I didn’t find her lunacy entertaining, it was just ugly. Whereas I get a laugh out of the posts of most of the other people being mentioned in this thread.
Phaedrus never argued that the earth was flat. He was a creationist (though not a young-earth creationist)with a bunch of wacky ideas that everyone else was doing the scientific method wrong. He may have later argued things for the sake of arguement (he branched out), but I think he was sincere in his position regarding evilution and how those wacky scientists had everything wrong in general… And I believe I read every single post in that thread (although I may have wimped out in the last page or two–it was a long time ago). I have heard a rumor htat hte original flat-earth thread was lost in the great migration. That is a shame.
I’m surprised nobody mentioned Brian Bunnyhurt yet. He had several targets, but he seemed most obsessed with organized religion. For a good example of Brian’s babbling, check here.
Plus, there’s also the Brian Bunnyhurt Pit Thread Collection[sup]TM[/sup] (with links to even more Bunnyhurt inanity):
Better or worse “debater” than ARG?
Introducing Brian Bunnyhurt, Total Fucking Loon
OK, Brian Bunnyhurt, I’m calling you out
News Flash: ‘Bush Gives Away Store…Kisses Dictator’s Ass!’ in recent China crisis
and a pair he shared with massive_attack,
The Jack Chick of Atheism
The Jack Chick of Athiesm: The Comic Book Tract Edition
I’m guessing that MarkSerlin would count as an entertaining loony, especially in his PRISM02 incarnation.
Oh lord, I’d forgotten about Brian Bunnyhurt. Yeah, that guy was defnitely nuts. His religion posts–especially in that multi-page thread on Mormons–were priceless lunacy. Nevertheless, my favorite single post of his was in a GD medical marijuana thread, where he made the following, unedited argument:
peace was also an amazing piece of work. Of course, the Grand Prize still has to go to Jack Dean Tyler, whose single-minded obsession was simply glorious. Freud himself could not have asked for a more transparent case study.
I confess to a bias against Phaedrus. He really managed to find my buttons for a while. But I do have to thank him for providing me a trial by fire which has allowed me to survive the likes of JDT with little more than a sad headshake.
Cyb/John has his moments of lunacy, but only on days ending in “y.”
But the winner in my book is the original He Who Shall Not Be Named. I was but a lurker then–but the trainwreck was felt throughout the AOL Multiverse.
In fact, if you say his name three times, they say he’ll rise from the depths and again wage his eternal battle against the forces of intelligence and reason.
Anyone wanna say the name? 
andros
andros
andros
Jes’ kiddin! ;):)
G.Nome may be a little nuts, but after an initial flare-up I (and several others) had with her, I’ve found her to be entertaining and/or interesting… and, as someone else mentioned, her posts often had the saving grace of making one think.
Although I’d prefer if she was a bit clearer with her communications, but that’s hardly something I can fault her for.
a good and proud looney should be one with an obsession, you got that right…but perhaps more importantly the looney should have “attitude”.
just look at bugs, hes got this carrot thing going on…
and fudd, hes got this unique method of expressing himself…
as for non-cartoon characters, i belive it is important to have a non-sense-ial look at the english language, spiced with a few idiotic errors everybody hates and using it to boot an ass named wiley (coldie when not in character)…
bj0rn - try and knock some sense into this!
bj0rn – the Goran Ivanisivic of the Straight Dope.
goran who?
Who were the wacko/s that posted their family feud here- I remember Diane getting into a major pissing contest with one of them. (I think she claimed to be a veteran)
I want to say that one poster was a Rose/Rosie and they called the kid their “little potato” or somesuch. Did I dream it or were these actual board lunatics?
I do have to say that FORMERAGENT was the best loonie. Everytime people got going on the “secret agent” talk I would about bust a gut. I loved his keyboard that only typed in caps, and most of all, even though he was obviously insane or kidding, people actually got riled up over him. Very weird.
I found the loonies like FF sad and not at all entertaining. I don’t like watching actual personal meltdowns and I regret being part of that one.
I enjoyed JDT, too. I believe he was joking all along, since one of his famous statements was that he believes (something like) 50% of the national budget should be slated for foreskin research. Talk about setting off my BS detector. I believe JDT was a reg having fun with us.
Mark Serlin was a real treat with his NO FAT CHICKS! rants. I shall think of him everytime I fluff my hair and spray my crotch with perfume prior to bedroom fun. Certainly that’s the best advice I’ve ever received on a message board.
Zette
A bj0rn sighting!
You guys have mentioned many of those that I would have.
I would only add Oat Willie. He was more a troll than a loon. But when he finally revealed himself in a final Pit thread, to matter-of-factly list off why he had terrorized the board for weeks in numerous troll incarnations, and several SDMB posters individually via email, appearing to take over their user-names, etc. … it had kind of a Hannibal Lecter quality about it.
(For whatever reason, I can’t find it on a search.)
Good one, Zette! I had almost forgotten about the family feud.
A lot of these make you wonder whether they are works of fiction. I have my suspicions about many of them.
shuttup! im an invisible idiot !!!
bj0rn - staying out of sight
ask and ye shall recieve
Let us also say a few words in praise of TheBrain. He only posted in two threads, I think, but managed to be both a loony and a jerk in both. I especially appreciated the way he called me loony because I didn’t believe the government was covering up Satanic murders.
in the fond memory of Rousseau, Rousseau, Rousseau…
bj0rn - híhíhí…
How honest of you to finally admit your true reasons for posting here. And how revealing to tell us your English is actually fine: you just fuck it up to piss others off.
But of course, the older observers knew that all along. It DOES amaze me that you always pop up within days of your name being mentioned. What’s the secret? You get into work in the morning and to a seach on “bj0rn”?
I’m just curious as to how it works. And more importantly, why it makes you tick. It seems like a very boring schtick to keep up for two fucking years.
Well, on USENET it kept kibo entertained for years on end. Of course, USENET readers didn’t have search functions, so he had to have access to a server and grep all the articles.
Kibo! Aieeeeeee! Thanks so much for those memories.