# SDMBKL is an alien life-form sent to Earth to gather data about the natives **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 25, 2012, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmbkl-is-an-alien-life-form-sent-to-earth-to-gather-data-about-the-natives/619958 "2012-04-25T22:07:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmbkl-is-an-alien-life-form-sent-to-earth-to-gather-data-about-the-natives/619958/41 "2012-04-26T21:59:38Z")
> [@Atreyu](#): > > I’m still trying to decide which is more interesting: the nature of his questions, or the fact that his posts all seem to be typed with care. While I haven’t read through all of his posts, I’ve looked through a fair number of them and did not find any significant errors in spelling or grammar. > > I can’t explain why, but I find this combination of esoteric question-mongering and precise, clear English weirdly peculiar. Well, it’s refreshing to see after so many mistyped OPs from Ralph. ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmbkl-is-an-alien-life-form-sent-to-earth-to-gather-data-about-the-natives/619958/42 "2012-04-26T22:26:28Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > What the hell was up with his Week of Bigotry? He must have posted four or five different threads on it. It was weird. > [@ugly ripe tomato](#): > > Must have a report on it due for Friday. That’s what made me wonder if it was some sort of bot we hadn’t seen before, because suddenly there was a theme to the questions, like someone needed to harvest a resource for a report or study due. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmbkl-is-an-alien-life-form-sent-to-earth-to-gather-data-about-the-natives/619958/43 "2012-04-26T23:16:41Z")
313 posts, of which 87 are OPs in threads he started. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2012, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmbkl-is-an-alien-life-form-sent-to-earth-to-gather-data-about-the-natives/619958/44 "2012-04-26T23:21:56Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > 313 posts, of which 87 are OPs in threads he started. That few, really? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmbkl-is-an-alien-life-form-sent-to-earth-to-gather-data-about-the-natives/619958/45 "2012-04-27T03:23:25Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > I think it just [reproduced.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=649642) [The spawn started a horrendous thread praising the Norwegian mass murderer.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=649773) ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmbkl-is-an-alien-life-form-sent-to-earth-to-gather-data-about-the-natives/619958/46 "2012-04-27T03:50:24Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > [The spawn started a horrendous thread praising the Norwegian mass murderer.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=649773) What, you’re not ready to “worship” him? ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmbkl-is-an-alien-life-form-sent-to-earth-to-gather-data-about-the-natives/619958/47 "2012-04-27T04:07:27Z")
His questions are amusing. Remember that before I was stranded here, I was the chief assistant to the senior outside observer posted here on Dirt. My first few months were quite difficult. You can’t imagine how hard it was to assimilate into a culture that steadfastly refused to believe that I was not human. Many of the things you all take for granted like automobiles, clothing, bricks, hot dogs (with or without chili), rain, books and sex were all completely foreign to me. Some of them still are. Rain still freaks me out. I mean y’all regularly accept that an active corrosive solvent precipitates out of the sky without any intelligent intervention or control whatsoever. If anyone here wants to know why the people of Planet Dirt haven’t been contacted by other civilizations I will bet you that it has more to do with rain than anything else. Nasty stuff that. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmbkl-is-an-alien-life-form-sent-to-earth-to-gather-data-about-the-natives/619958/48 "2012-04-27T04:08:27Z")
> [@secretsmile36](#): > > Oh yeah that’s a creepy one right there. It’s username seems like that of a spammer. Normally when you see user names like that they get banned. I thought that too, but just before reporting it I Googled it, and Otkakönmişkılıç is apparently a Turkish first name. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmbkl-is-an-alien-life-form-sent-to-earth-to-gather-data-about-the-natives/619958/49 "2012-04-27T07:26:31Z")
> [@Gagundathar](#): > > His questions are amusing. > Remember that before I was stranded here, I was the chief assistant to the senior outside observer posted here on Dirt. My first few months were quite difficult. You can’t imagine how hard it was to assimilate into a culture that steadfastly refused to believe that I was not human. Many of the things you all take for granted like automobiles, clothing, bricks, hot dogs (with or without chili), rain, books and sex were all completely foreign to me. Some of them still are. Rain still freaks me out. I mean y’all regularly accept that an active corrosive solvent precipitates out of the sky without any intelligent intervention or control whatsoever. If anyone here wants to know why the people of Planet Dirt haven’t been contacted by other civilizations I will bet you that it has more to do with rain than anything else. Nasty stuff that. Yeah, but did you figure out sex? Or are you going around poking people with your index finger? ---
**Author:** ![Norse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a9adbd/32.png) [@Norse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Norse)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmbkl-is-an-alien-life-form-sent-to-earth-to-gather-data-about-the-natives/619958/50 "2012-04-27T08:36:08Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > [The spawn started a horrendous thread praising the Norwegian mass murderer.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=649773) It’s kind of cute when they try to talk like real people, isn’t it? I wonder how it’ll score on a Turing test. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmbkl-is-an-alien-life-form-sent-to-earth-to-gather-data-about-the-natives/619958/51 "2012-04-27T12:37:46Z")
I WAG that the KL in his user name is for Kuala Lumpur. ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmbkl-is-an-alien-life-form-sent-to-earth-to-gather-data-about-the-natives/619958/52 "2012-04-27T13:03:35Z")
> [@Mighty\_Girl](#): > > Yeah, but did you figure out sex? Or are you going around poking people with your index finger? Well if you must know \, among members of my species, procreation and intercourse are separate activities. So, learning how to operate my environmental suit properly did take some adjustment, but now I think I have it figured out. Who would have thought that a male’s excretory system would be so intimately connected with the primary sexual organs? But, no, I don’t go around poking people with my index finger… anymore. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmbkl-is-an-alien-life-form-sent-to-earth-to-gather-data-about-the-natives/619958/53 "2012-04-27T14:39:54Z")
> [@Norse](#): > > I wonder how it’ll score on a Turing test. Hey, I know lots of folks who can’t pass a Turing test. ---
**Author:** ![Norse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a9adbd/32.png) [@Norse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Norse)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmbkl-is-an-alien-life-form-sent-to-earth-to-gather-data-about-the-natives/619958/54 "2012-04-27T15:11:37Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Hey, I know lots of folks who can’t pass a Turing test. As clients, I take it? And would any of those, by chance, be posting on obscure Internet message boards under user names like **SDMBKL** or **Otkakönmişkılıç**? ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmbkl-is-an-alien-life-form-sent-to-earth-to-gather-data-about-the-natives/619958/55 "2012-04-27T15:21:59Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > [The spawn started a horrendous thread praising the Norwegian mass murderer.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=649773) Based on that, I’m starting to lean towards KL standing for Ku **KL** ux **KL** an… :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmbkl-is-an-alien-life-form-sent-to-earth-to-gather-data-about-the-natives/619958/56 "2012-04-27T15:24:33Z")
> [@Norse](#): > > As clients, I take it? And would any of those, by chance, be posting on obscure Internet message boards under user names like **SDMBKL** or **Otkakönmişkılıç**? There’s a difference between these two. **Otkakönmişkılıç** seems to be Turkish based on his thread about languages today. He may just be curious and not have a strong background in western culture. **SDMBKL** sounds like a malfunctioning AI device. ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmbkl-is-an-alien-life-form-sent-to-earth-to-gather-data-about-the-natives/619958/57 "2012-04-27T22:39:02Z")
I almost hate to bump this thread, but in my post above I got confused by the crosstalk about \*\*Otkakönmişkılıç **and** SDMBKL, \*\*and wrongly thought the latter had started the “kill all Muslims” thread that was linked from here. I don’t personally have any reason to believe the two are the same person (though others might), and I apologize for my guess above about what **KL** stood for, which was based on an unrelated thread. ---
**Author:** ![secretsmile36](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@secretsmile36](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/secretsmile36)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmbkl-is-an-alien-life-form-sent-to-earth-to-gather-data-about-the-natives/619958/58 "2012-04-27T23:32:43Z")
> [@secretsmile36](#): > > Oh yeah that’s a creepy one right there. It’s username seems like that of a spammer. Normally when you see user names like that they get banned. Just wanted to say…I was right. He now has banned under his username. ---
**Author:** ![secretsmile36](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@secretsmile36](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/secretsmile36)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmbkl-is-an-alien-life-form-sent-to-earth-to-gather-data-about-the-natives/619958/59 "2012-04-27T23:41:31Z")
Otkakönmişkılıç is banned not sdmbkl. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmbkl-is-an-alien-life-form-sent-to-earth-to-gather-data-about-the-natives/619958/60 "2012-04-27T23:45:40Z")
> [@secretsmile36](#): > > Otkakönmişkılıç is banned not sdmbkl. Otka-whatever was banned for being a hate-spewing asshole, though (he was advocating a “kill all Muslims because they’re dirty terrorists” stance), not an alien life form studying us through many, many polls. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmbkl-is-an-alien-life-form-sent-to-earth-to-gather-data-about-the-natives/619958.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmbkl-is-an-alien-life-form-sent-to-earth-to-gather-data-about-the-natives/619958.md?page=4)