On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 15:02:58 -0400, "Bob (this one)" >
wrote:

>In the course of all these
>mountain-moving efforts by my close friends Kev and Otto, they seem to
>be saying rather dumb stuff just to kindle response.

You might be onto something there. I wonder if there's a word for
posting obvious nonsense in order to goad pompous, earnest bores into
"proving" the obvious nonsense wrong. If there isn't a word, there
ought to be.

Maybe we could call it "spaghetti noodling."

On the other hand, what kind of boob would fall for such an obvious
ploy?