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- From: kibo@world.std.com (James "Kibo" Parry)
- Subject: alt.religion.kibology FAQ -- Ninth Edition
- Message-ID: <BzDtxI.G6A@world.std.com>
- Organization: Two rooms filled with typography, in downtown Boston
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 02:36:53 GMT
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- ALT.RELIGION.KIBOLOGY FAQ--NINTH EDITION (12/16/92)
- ===================================================
-
- EXCERPTED FROM THE "ASK KIBO" BOOKS COWRITTEN WITH JAN-CECIL
- BRUNVADAMS, RON GOULART, MICHAEL TOBIAS, AND EDWARD D. WOOD JR.
-
- Answers to these Frequently Asked Questions have been verified by
- Encyclopedia Britannica. They have not, however, been verified to be
- _correct_.
-
-
- Please send corrections to kibo@world.std.com. Questions will be
- answered if accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope.
-
-
- "WHAT DOES KIBO LOOK LIKE?"
- Six two (-ish), skinny, dark brown hair (medium-length), Abe Lincoln
- beard, glasses. Exactly the same fleshtone as Michael Jackson's TV
- Guide cover photo.
-
- "WHAT DOES KIBO SOUND LIKE?"
- Mostly like Mr. Rogers. For a truly accurate image, imagine 40% Mr.
- Rogers, 35% Michael Dukakis, and 25% Don Adams. (Actually, Kibo was
- required to take voice training classes in college--they wanted him to
- talk like Adam West. One of his instructors also worked on Dukakis.
- This technique is obviously completely useless.)
-
- "CAN KIBO DO ANY IMPRESSIONS?"
- A few, but they're very bad so he won't do them for you. However,
- people occasionally accuse him of doing a Mr. Rogers one, which he can
- only do when he's _not_ trying to.
-
- "HAS KIBO BEEN IN HARVEY PEKAR'S COMIC BOOK `AMERICAN SPLENDOR'?"
- Of course not. Don't be silly. However, it's rumored that he is
- partially obscuring Waldo in "Where's Waldo?"
-
- "WHAT IS THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE OF BOZOLOGY?"
- Bozosity abounds!
-
- "AND IS THIS RELATED TO KIBO'S GRAND UNIFIED THEORY OF STUFF
- [G.U.T.S.]? WHAT IS HIS G.U.T.S., ANYWAY?"
- Everything abounds!
-
- "OH."
-
- "HOW DO YOU TELL IF SOMEONE'S A BOZO?"
- Ask them. If they say yes, they're a good bozo. If they say no,
- they're a bad bozo. If they refuse or evade, they're the very worst
- kind, and will be first against the wall when the revolution comes!
-
- "WHO CREATED KIBOLOGY?"
- The idea came from either Mark&Jason Dominus or Todd McComb, but they
- don't remember which one of them it was. Neither does Kibo. He blames
- them both equally.
-
- "WHO'S VISITED KIBO'S APARTMENT?"
- Mark&Jason Dominus, Sean "Xibo" Coates, Harry Mandel, John Corr, Meg
- Bertoni, Kibo's parents, Tom, Tom, and Tom, Jim Kasprzak, Scott "~ibo"
- Ramming, Noah Friedman, Mark Hill, but certainly not Patrick L. Obo.
-
- "WHO IS PATRICK L. OBO?"
- Remember the recent _Star_ tabloid cover story, "CRAZED FAN STALKS
- SUZANNE SOMERS"?
-
- "WHAT'S KIBO'S PURITY TEST SCORE?"
- He forgot. Wasn't spectacularly high or low. He denies Bush's
- accusation that there was A Pattern.
-
- "WHAT'S KIBO'S IQ?"
- He hasn't had any such tests lately. However, he has been scored as
- surprisingly normal on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
- (MMPI). A certain minor religion's "Free Personality Test" claims
- he'll go insane soon. [Afterword: Kibo still hasn't bought a copy of
- "Dianetics", so he is obviously insane now.]
-
- "HOW DID KIBO ACQUIRE THIS MUCH POWER?"
- He invented the smilie.
-
- "THEN WHY DOES KIBO REFUSE TO USE ANY :-)S IN ALT.RELIGION.KIBOLOGY?"
- He doesn't want to show off his skills. He can type the three parts in
- under a tenth of a second, blindfolded.
-
- "WHAT DID KIBO BUY AT THE MARKET RECENTLY?"
- (From Kibo's three most recent grocery receipts from daily shopping
- trips)
-
- DR PEPPER (4) Eight liters, three days.
- ARRID-REGULA Time for a new can of deodorant.
- PLAST FORKS All the plastic cutlery got used up
- FORKS simultaneously. Same goes for paper
- CUTLERY plates, see below.
- MAPLE LINKS Wrong. Brown'N'Serve BACON flavor.
- STOVETOP STF Turkey flavor, the best.
- V8 COCKTAIL (3) Does that make one V24? Twelve V2s?
- GROCRY I have no idea what this was, now.
- SUP 12Z BOWL Paper bowls/plates.
- DIX 9IN PLTE
- CERTS (3) Pocket cache of mints was low.
- PEPPERONI The most perfect snack meat.
- HERSHEY DRIN Chocolate artificial milk.
- LCHOY MS EGG (2) I know LaChoy egg rolls are crummy, but
- I like them anyway. I don't know why.
- CHEEZ IT Not for me, for a visitor. I do not
- eat cheese, and certainly not "cheez".
- SR CRM MNCHM Um... don't recall.
- BBQ RIPPLINS Keeblerized potato chip substitute.
- MEAT A lot of breaded chicken fillets.
- PRINGLE RIP (2) Rippled pringles.
- HOOD CALMILK Calcium-enriched, lactose-reduced milk,
- for cooking (not drinking)
- BOSCO The only non-artificially-flavored
- chocolate syrup available here.
-
- "DOES KIBO PERFORM STANDUP COMEDY?"
- Not any more. Too scary and not profitable.
-
- "IF KIBO EVER GOES BALD, WILL HE STAY BALD OR WILL HE JOIN THE HAIR
- CLUB FOR MEN?"
- I wouldn't dream of being a Hair Club for Men client unless I can also
- be the president.
-
- "WILL KIBO EVER CORRECT THIB TYPOGRAPHICAL ERROR?"
- Where?
-
- "WHY DO I WRITE ABOUT MYSELF IN THE THIRD PERSON IN SOME PLACES IN THIS
- FAQ LIST?"
- Because it would look like I had a big ego if I kept saying "I".
-
- "WHO'S KIBO'S FAVORITE BEATLE?"
- Paul.
-
- "WHO'S KIBO'S FAVORITE MONKEE?"
- Mike, or maybe Peter. However, this answer would be completely
- different if Charles Manson hadn't done so badly in his audition for
- them. (Little-known fact.)
-
- "HAS KIBO EVER SEEN A RONALD REAGAN MOVIE?"
- Yes, _Bedtime for Bonzo_, twice. Also, night before last, actually
- threw up while reading a synopsis of _Hellcats of the Navy_. However,
- this answer would have been completely different if Ingrid Bergman's
- availability hadn't prompted the studio to replace Reagan with Bogie in
- _Casablanca_. (Little-known fact.)
-
- "WHERE HAS KIBO BEEN?"
- The northeastern quadrant of the United States. And Cleveland. When
- he can afford it, he'll go everywhere else. Especially the Moon.
-
- "KIBO SAID `SIL!'. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?"
- If you have to ask, you'll never know. Sil!
-
- "WHAT'S KIBO'S FAVORITE COLOR?"
- Pantone Reflex Blue(tm). But only on coated paper. Fuzzy-paper
- aficionados or video weenies don't know what they're missing.
-
- "HOW MANY TIMES HAS KIBO SEEN `GONE WITH THE WIND'?"
- None.
-
- "HAS KIBO READ THE SEQUEL?"
- He read the synopsis in _Life_ magazine and nearly broke his rib cage
- laughing.
-
- "DID KIBO VOTE FOR BUSH OR DUKAKIS IN '88?"
- No. Ron Paul (Libertarian party).
-
- "WHY?"
- He had the least-groomed fuzzy eyebrows and thus looked the most
- honest.
-
- "DID KIBO VOTE FOR BUSH, CLINTON, OR PEROT IN '92?"
- Yes. Perot. He did it just because he wanted to enjoy the chaos it
- could cause.
-
- "WHAT DOES KIBO THINK OF TELEVISION?"
- TV is evil must be destroyed. A good way to do this is to watch your
- set until it burns out.
-
- "WHAT ONE WORD WOULD KIBO USE TO DESCRIBE HIMSELF?"
- "Kibo."
-
- "WHAT'S KIBO'S SHOE SIZE?"
- 11-1/2, wide. The boots he's been wearing lately are 30, which is
- measured in centimeters because the boots were made by Communists.
-
- "WHAT'S KIBO'S HAT SIZE?"
- Large.
-
- "WHAT KIND OF CAR DOES KIBO DRIVE?"
- Living in central Boston, it's much cheaper not to have one, and
- perfectly easy to get everywhere on foot or by public transportation or
- taxi.
-
- "DOES KIBO EXPECT `STAR TREK VI' TO BE ANY GOOD?"
- Possibly. It'll be better than V, obviously, but I doubt it'll be the
- best of the bunch.
-
- "WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH SULU?"
- About ten percent of the profits, or something. After Star Trek XII,
- Paramount will pay to have his wart removed.
-
- "AND WHAT ABOUT `DEEP SPACE NINE'?"
- Will you screaming nerdo zonkers shut up about Star Trek already? I
- keep telling you, I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH GENE RODDENBERRY'S DEATH.
- End of discussion.
-
- "WELL, NOW THAT IT'S A YEAR LATER, DO YOU EXPECT `STAR TREK VII' TO BE
- ANY GOOD?"
- Possibly... and monkeys might fly out of Shatner's hair!
-
- "DID BURT REYNOLDS REALLY DO THE VOICEOVERS FOR TROY'S CHARACTER ON THE
- SERIES `OUT OF THIS WORLD'?"
- Sorry, that's irrelevant to alt.religion.kibology. Try rec.arts.tv.
-
- "IF KIBO WERE A TREE, WHAT KIND OF TREE WOULD HE BE?"
- Yggdrasil.
-
- "WHAT'S KIBO'S FAVORITE TIME OF DAY?"
- Four to five in the morning, whether he's awake or not.
-
- "DOES KIBO HAVE ANY FAVORITE SPORTS TEAMS?"
- No, he avoids sports religiously.
-
- "WHAT CAN WE EXPECT TO SEE TALKED ABOUT ON ALT.RELIGION.KIBOLOGY?"
- Exactly one-half of the entire universe, including a rather large chunk
- of the creamy center of the Milky Way.
-
- "IS IT TRUE THAT KIBO WOULD WITHER AND DIE WITHOUT HIS TV SET?"
- No. You're thinking of Kibo's Usenet feed.
-
- "DOES KIBO HAVE AN S.O.?"
- I don't consider myself to have one, but she called herself my SO once.
- Does that qualify? I think I lost her phone number.
-
- "HOW LONG HAS KIBO BEEN ON USENET?"
- Since about '87. He's had E-mail access since '85.
-
- "WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE NET HAS ENCOUNTERED KIBO?"
- Unknown, but probably a large fraction. Of course, Kibo has
- encountered most of the net, since he reads a few zillion groups.
- Well, actually, his minions do it for him.
-
- "WHO ARE KIBO'S NET.COHORTS?"
- Too many to list. Next!
-
- "HOW DOES KIBOLOGY COMPARE?"
- Kibology is better.
-
- "BETTER THAN SCIENTOLOGY?"
- Anything is!
-
- "DID KIBO SAY, `EVERYTHING I SAY DESERVES TO BE QUOTED, AND PUT UP ON
- BILLBOARDS'?"
- No.
-
- "DID KIBO SAY, `DID KIBO SAY, "EVERYTHING I SAY DESERVES TO BE QUOTED,
- AND PUT UP ON BILLBOARDS"?'?"
- Yes.
-
- "IS KIBO FOR REAL?"
- He's more real than Doogie Howser. Not as real as Al Sharpton. But
- then, you don't want him to be.
-
- "HOW'D YOU GET THAT NAME?"
- It was an accident involving a dictionary, a contraction, some
- computers, and reverse hypnosis! Run for your lives!
-
- "WHAT DOES KIBO MEAN, ANYWAY?"
- What he says.
-
- "NO, I MEAN, WHAT DOES THE _NAME_ `KIBO' MEAN?"
- It means that the person who has that name is named "Kibo".
-
- "HOW IS IT PRONOUNCED?"
- There are three ways. The most common is "Keebo". The second most
- common has the `short i' sound as in the word "bit". The least common
- has the `long i' as in "eye". Needless to say, Kibo says it the weird
- long-i way.
-
- "WHAT'S `HELVETICA'?"
- Kind of like the antichrist, only without the horns.
-
- "IS KIBO RELATED TO XIBO?"
- No.
-
- "WHAT'S A XIBO?"
- A bad bozo, who isn't allowed.
-
- "WHY DON'T YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT XIBO?"
- I could if I wanted to. See, I'm allowed to. Xibo isn't allowed. As
- the saying goes, "You're allowed, unless you're Harry, Glass, Xibo,
- Spot, Sandro Wallach, Noah Friedman (after midnight), or especially
- Patrick L. Obo."
-
- "WHO'S XIBO?"
- A very bad bozo, who still isn't allowed, no matter how much he whines
- about it.
-
- "WHERE'S XIBO?"
- Sittin' in his nowhere land, making all his nowhere .plans for nobody.
-
- "WHY IS XIBO SO FAR AWAY FROM KIBO?"
- Because they're on opposite sides of the real world.
-
- "WHO IS SPOT?"
- He's just a dog.
-
- "WHY IS SPOT NOT ALLOWED?"
- He's _just_ a _dog_!
-
- "DID SPOT DO SOMETHING BAD?"
- No, he's never been allowed to do anything.
-
- "WHY DOES KIBO MAKE SO MANY TYPOS? CAN'T HE PROOFREAD?"
- William Shakespeare spelled his own name four different ways, too. And
- Einstein wore mismatched socks. So Kibo's allowed too.
-
- "WHO IS HARRY?"
- Slightly above Spot's level.
-
- "IS HE ALLOWED?"
- No.
-
- "WHY IS KIBO'S .SIGNATURE SO LONG?"
- Because it contains an actual-size map of the entire Universe.
-
- "KIBO, DON'T YOU REALIZE YOU'RE COSTING THE NET HUNDREDS IF NOT
- THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS BY POSTING THAT .SIGNATURE?"
- Those are just 1983 dollars.
-
- "DON'T YOU CARE?"
- Of course I care. Just not very much.
-
- "YOU SHOULD PUT THIS IN YOUR .SIGNATURE."
- Maybe.
-
- "IS KIBO ON WOODY'S SIDE OR MIA'S?"
- Woody's. Mia's turned evil!
-
- "WHY IS THE APARTMENT DOWN THE HALL ALWAYS WATCHING THE SAME TV CHANNEL
- KIBO'S WATCHING?"
- Conspiracy. I can't elaborate further.
-
- "WHAT ARE SOME OF KIBO'S FAVORITE TYPEFACES?"
- Icone, Goudy Oldstyle (only in metal, though), Information Extended
- Black, Journal, Eusebius, Tempo Medium Italic, Stellar, Ludlow
- Garamond, Adobe Garamond, Michaelangelo, the original Baskerville, and
- Jenson's original 1470 type.
-
- "AND LEAST FAVORITE?"
- Biffo Script, Huit Light, Braggadocio, ITC Fat Face, Helvetica Medium,
- and Chicago.
-
- "WHAT IS `E!'?"
- 24 hours of TV commercials every day. It's the channel devoted to
- telling you how great all the other channels are! And the big "E!" in
- the corner of the screen _never_ goes away. Watch "E!" in your
- hot-tub! While bungee-jumping! Get the latest on Roseanne's new
- tattoo! Watch the editing process of "Look Who's Talking 3"!
- Scrutinize trends in game-show-host teeth!
-
- "WHO IS BIFF?"
- BIFF IZ A REELY K00L D00D !!!!!!!!!!!!!1 HE P0STS 2 THE NET FR0M HIZ
- BIG BROTHERS C-64 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111 BIFF IS AWESUM
- ..........,,,,
-
- "SAY, KIBO, ARE YOU RELATED TO BIFF?"
- N0 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-
- "IS BIFF A KIBOLOGIST?"
- Everyone's a Kibologist... whether they know it or not!
-
- "KIBO, CAN YOU POST A .GIF OF YOURSELF?"
- Yes. But not right now. I've been meaning to when I have time to
- finish airbrushing my glossies.
-
- "HOW DO YOU SING THE QUOTATION MARKS IN `"KIBO"'?"
- First you hold up your right hand and make the international
- double-quote gesture with a quick downward arc of the index and middle
- fingers (do not do this backwards in most parts of the world.) Then,
- after "Kibo," do the same with your left hand. Other "quoted" words
- may "also" be "pronounced" in this "`way'".
-
- "WHY IS KIBO SO COOL?"
- He's not telling, because then you'd all remake yourselves in his
- image, and he'd just be average! Did you know that NEARLY HALF THE
- PEOPLE IN THE WORLD are BELOW AVERAGE? Shocking but VERIFIED BY
- ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA!
-
- "AS YOU MIGHT KNOW, KIBO LIVES IN BOSTON. WHY?"
- Proximity to the MIT nuclear reactor, Necco factory, Tea Party ship,
- and that glass building that drops windows on people. Oh, yeah, and
- it's also the Hub of the Universe. But Kibo is the axle.
-
- "WHAT ARE SOME OF THE MOST WIDELY QUOTED KIBO QUOTES?"
- The widest I've ever seen Kibo quoted is:
- ` ` K i b o ' '
- ...but in some extended fonts it could be a bit wider.
-
- "WHY DID ISTANBUL GET THE WORKS?"
- Actually, they just got some business cards. I had to put Turkish
- accent marks on ITC Souvenir Light; you haven't lived until you've seen
- a Souvenir `g' with the little doohickey floating over it.
-
- "IS ALT.RELIGION.KIBOLOGY ARCHIVED ANYWHERE?"
- Yes. FTP to world.std.com, look in /pub/alt.religion.kibology. Find
- about 5000 articles to play with. Read them all. Then see a doctor.
- I recommend Dr. Theguywhocanrepairyourheadafteritexplodes... he's
- really nice.
-
- "HAS PHILIP K. DICK APPROVED OF THIS?"
- To quote from the first chapter of PKD's _Gather Yourselves Together_
- (1952), "He put his suitcase down and made certain that his wallet was
- buttoned into his pocket in such a way that it could not possibly fall
- out."
- Unlike PKD's characters, Kibo forgets to do stuff like this, and so
- occasionally his pocket falls out.
-
- "WHAT DOES `OBIK' MEAN?"
- Obik a special aerosol spray that makes things resistant to further use
- of Obik. Contains no harmful radioactive plutonium!
-
- "WHAT DOES `XVOB' MEAN?"
- It's in code. Ssh. It's a _secret_.
-
- "WHAT FLAVORS DO NEW CRUNCHY KibOs COME IN?"
- Regular, ham'n'egg, honey-lutefisk, cheez'n'whiz, nearly-kosher tofu,
- and dog.
-
- "WHY DID MY LEFT SIDEBURN FALL OUT?"
- That happened to William Shatner once, in the episode where the
- Transporter created an evil twin--hey, wait, I told you: STOP ASKING ME
- STAR TREK QUESTIONS! Shatner only got the Kirk role on Star Trek
- because he was married to Majel Barrett Roddenberry, anyway.
-
- "WHY DO EXPLODING HEADS SHOW UP SO MUCH IN BAD MOVIES AND TV?"
- Because they're sheer comedy! A laugh a minute! *boom* Hey, look,
- honey, that guy's head just exploded FOR NO REASON! It's almost as
- funny as a midget. Hey, look, honey, he's STILL short! You'll laugh
- for HOURS! Coming soon to Fox.
-
- "IF MOST PEOPLE ARE RIGHT-HANDED, WHY ARE ALL NEUTRINOS LEFT-HANDED?"
- It's a safety feature to keep kids from opening them.
-
- "WILL I EVER GET A LIFE?"
- I suggest you check alt.religion.kibology for the answer, every hour.
- On the hour. Don't forget to keep us posted, too.
-
- "HAVE I YET ACCUMULATED A LETHAL DOSE?"
- Perhaps just a lethal doze.
-
- "WHY AM I ASKING THIS?"
- Who do I look like--Criswell? Actually, my hairdo is stranger than
- his. But then again, he went bald later. And I didn't.
-
-