Greatest Troll IRL

[Wiglaf]

Originally posted by rah
Exactly Aeson, which is why Jesus was the best troll of all.

Whose sister did he bang and whose cruise money did he steal? He got murdered at a pretty young age, champ.

[Colonâ„¢]

Hitler can't be a troll because trolls are mostly harmless, just really, really, really annoying, which just fits Chavez' description.

[Sandman]

No Chirac?

In all honesty, those Islamic clerics who added the pig pics to the Danish cartoons to ensure the rent-a-mobs were extra rowdy.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Aeson
Ghandi

Who?

[BeBMan]

I think they had quite a great troll in LotR.

[Darius871]

How could this poll not include Phil Hendrie? The man's only been doing elaborate trolling in radio form for about two decades!

[The show] is known for outrageous guests, all of whom were fictional and voiced live by the host, Phil Hendrie. Though Hendrie often explained that he was doing the voices, listeners unfamiliar with the show's format were duped into believing that the guests on the show were real and were invited to call in to engage in conversation with the "guests". Hendrie rapidly switched back and forth between a studio microphone and a conventional telephone, creating the illusion that his "guest" had called into the show. Adding to the illusion, the telephone line often featured recorded background noises that simulated various locations, such as a bowling alley, the kitchen of a restaurant, or, on at least one occasion, a washroom. Hendrie commented many times on the air that the actual point of the show was the callers' reaction to his "guests", not the guests themselves, and that he was merely illustrating his perception about the ignorance of talk radio listeners.

When Hendrie had one of his "guests" on, the opening segment was usually cordial, and presented an unusual premise for discussion. In the second segment, a new outrageous element was usually brought into the ongoing discussion, and callers were introduced. The callers usually expressed outrage at the guests, and the guest typically responded in a caustic manner. In the third segment, a third and final surprise entered the conversation and often a hilarious crescendo pitch was reached that left callers exhausted and enraged and listeners laughing. The caller and guest conversed in downright bellicose tones, which often became a surreal good cop/bad cop routine as Hendrie hung up on his guest and apologized to the caller.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phil_Hendrie_Show

[Zero]

wiglaf is trolling just fine in this thread.

im a troll in real life. literally. I live in a forest and got a big nose and sh*t.

[Riesstiu IV]

Originally posted by BeBro
I think they had quite a great troll in LotR.

Overweight, lives in a basement without light (Moria), no friends, and utterly hated? Yep, sounds about standard for a Troll.

[VetLegion]

Troll is by definition someone who tries to inflame and upset other people, but who does not himself care about the subject of discussion.

This means that Ann Coulter can't be entirely a troll, even if she can act trollishly at times.

The requirement that the troll is personally detached from the subject is a neccessary one.

There are a lot of people out there who can get others worked up, but if it is about a subject they care about, then they aren't trolls.

Jesus would be the most successful troll ever only if we could somehow prove that he didn't mean all the things he said and did it for fun or to see how far he can take it.