Famous trolls from the days before the internet

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1. Socrates

2. Wittgenstein

3. Dali

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 04:18 (twenty-two years ago)

mencken

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 04:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Hitler, obv.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 04:35 (twenty-two years ago)

that makes no sense

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 04:37 (twenty-two years ago)

neither does socrates, but nevermind

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 04:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Bert, Bill and Tom

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 04:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Spiro Agnew

― Broheems (diamond), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 04:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Napoleon 'But I'm Enormous in My Pants' Bonaparte

― Always Winter Never Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 04:54 (twenty-two years ago)

6-8. http://www.telusplanet.net/public/lorejj20/ToyRoom/trolls26-28.jpg

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 04:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to cover those things in rubber cement and set them on fire. Fun.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 04:58 (twenty-two years ago)

aren't trolls basically harmless? napoleon and hitler were anything but.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 05:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I always took the word to mean, like, gratuitously contrarian. So those first four are spot on.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 05:10 (twenty-two years ago)

But actually no, wait, those first ones aren't trolls because they can justify their positions. Trolling is more like, taking a standpoint not because you believe in it, but because it will piss other people off. And that's why I don't think trolls are necessarily harmless. Like, (to give a local example) a lot of men age 18-34 (or whatever) here in Minnesota voted for Ventura several years ago, but not because they wanted him to be governor, necessarily, or that they even knew where he stood on various important issues. They voted for him solely to give a big "fuck you" to all the people who actually did care about how the election turned out and just to politics (in the classical positive civil sense rather than the petty personal one) in general. And then of course Ventura won and proceeded to be a gigantic ass and fuck various things (education, assorted social programs) up.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 05:18 (twenty-two years ago)

dadaism to thread.

unless I am wrong.

In which case this was all just some sort of elaborate posting-on-ilx-as-art-comment I was doing.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 05:46 (twenty-two years ago)

http://63.246.8.173/wwyk/shows/muppets/oldguys.jpg

― weather1ngda1eson (Brian), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 05:57 (twenty-two years ago)

socrates absolutely was a troll.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 05:58 (twenty-two years ago)

That kid looks like the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man.

― Camtron (Cameron), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 05:58 (twenty-two years ago)

God hates you!

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 07:33 (twenty-two years ago)

there's a kid like that near where I live! He's fat, he's round, he bounces on the ground....

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 07:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Harlan Ellison perhaps?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 08:40 (twenty-two years ago)

3 Billy Goats Gruff to thread!

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 09:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Fremont Troll, Seattle:
http://www.see-seattle.com/odyssey-troll.jpg

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 18 May 2004 17:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Note VW Bug in left grip.

― sexyDancer, Tuesday, 18 May 2004 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

satan?

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Ambrose Bierce

Alexander Woolcott

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 17:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Jonathan Swift

http://www.english.upenn.edu/~jlynch/Courses/95c/Texts/modest.html

― 24 hours with the King of Snake. (SNAKE!) (ex machina), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 18:18 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Columnist/Head_shots/1998/12/11/burchill-j-pic.gif

― holojames (holojames), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Voltaire

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Ayn Rand, obv.

― 24 hours with the King of Snake. (SNAKE!) (ex machina), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 19:07 (twenty-two years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00009PY4I.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Which isn't really notable, since it somewhat misses Colin's point - but I remember that the main characters in this movie are named Harry Potter and Harry Potter Jr., which should count for something.

+ Oliver North
+ Walter Mattheau

― x Jeremy (Atila the Honeybun), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Ming the Merciless was the father of trolls

― StevieV tha man, Tuesday, 18 May 2004 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)

(FYI, StevieV is now on the shortlist for Poster With The Best Email Address.)

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 21:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Great, super!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 21:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Smashing

― StevieV, Tuesday, 18 May 2004 22:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Voltaire is purported to have said something like "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." What troll is prepared to concede that?

― Always Winter Never Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 23:27 (twenty-two years ago)

True enough.

Well OK, how about The Marquis De Sade?

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Voltaire is purported to have said something like "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." What troll is prepared to concede that?

Haha a million comedy answers flit through my mind but for once I Show RESTRAINT!

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 23:34 (twenty-two years ago)

stuart n hardy!

― carson dial (carson dial), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 23:34 (twenty-two years ago)

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