Kibology: Resources

What is Kibology you ask? Let's review some facts about Kibo and Kibology then:

    exploding kibo

  1. Kibo: the person

    Kibo, show here exploding, is really James "Kibo" Perry, who lives in Boston's Back Bay. Newsgroups about him, alt.religion.kibology, alt.exploding.kibo and alt.imploding.kibo have been around on USENET since 1991. Kibo gained fame by grepping USENET posts for his name, and replying to these messages. Trust me, before DejaNews and the like, this was quite inventive. This inventiveness gave Kibo instant fame and fortune (well, fame anyway), and caused several newsgroups to be created about him. alt.religion.kibology was for fans of Kibo. alt.exploding.kibo was for people who wouldn't mind seeing Kibo's head explode, killing him quite dead. The .gif above is a depiction of that event, and was posted in .bmp format by Kibo. In fact, the first post to a.r.k. was by Kibo himself. This message follows: 
    Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology
From: kibo@world.std.com (James 'Kibo' Parry)
Subject: I'm so thrilled.
Message-ID: 
Organization: Kibo's Home Office (in Boston's Back Bay)
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1991 23:26:16 GMT

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                     I'm so elated, my head could EXPLO****(spaf!)****
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		Today, alt.exploding.kibo and alt.religion.kibology.


	Tomorrow, comp.sys.kibo, alt.sex.kibo,
	talk.politics.kibo, soc.kibo.dangerous, and clari.news.kibo.

-- 
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James "Kibo" Parry      kibo@world.std.com    Independent graphic designer
271 Dartmouth St. #3D                         (specialty: logos & corporate
Boston, MA 02116          (617) 262-3922      identities) and type designer.
    Interesting, no? The second post was also by someone at world.std.com, 
    Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology
From: adamg@world.std.com (Adam M Gaffin)
Subject: Re: I'm so thrilled.
Message-ID: 
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: 
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1991 00:39:37 GMT

In article  kibo@world.std.com (James 'Kibo' Parry) writes:
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>                     I'm so elated, my head could EXPLO****(spaf!)****
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>		Today, alt.exploding.kibo and alt.religion.kibology.
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>	Tomorrow, comp.sys.kibo, alt.sex.kibo,
>	talk.politics.kibo, soc.kibo.dangerous, and clari.news.kibo.
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Oh, yuck! Obviously a man who has seen "Scanners" one time too many!

Adam Gaffin
Middlesex News, Framingham, Mass.
adamg@world.std.com
Voice: (508) 626-3968. Fred the Middlesex News Computer: (508) 872-8461.
    though this post relies on the fact that you've seen the movie Scanners. I haven't.

  2. Kibo: the AI program

    It has been suggested many times that Kibo is really an artificial intelligence (AI) program. Kibo addressed this in the third post to a.r.k., which was the Kibology FAQ: 
    "IS KIBO REALLY A COMPUTER PROGRAM?"
The rumors that I am an AI program are completely unfounded.  Sixty
lines of LISP can hardly be called AI.  (There's also a C version, which
is not currently endorsed, because some weenie changed my vocabulary
slightly.)  The automatic Kibo-aphorism-generators should be posted here
eventually.  Then you'll be able to experience the joy of having Kibo
babble at you ANY TIME!
    I'd have to say that pretty much sums things up. It doesn't help much, but it sums things up.

  3. Kibo: His .signature file.

    Kibo's .signature file is quite long, and contains references to the REAL Batman movie (with Adam West), Star Trek, Twin Peaks, BIFF, bozos, and all sorts of other Kibologically-related thoughts and objects. Once again, I quote Kibo himself concerning the length of his .sig: 
    "WHAT'S THE MAXMUM SIZE KIBO'S .SIGNATURE HAS EVER REACHED?"
Something like 1450 lines.  Of course, that's too long to be posted,
since 1000 lines is often the limit.  Also, the Postscript .signature is
around 300K, and the .RIB one is around twelve megabytes.

  4. Kibology, alt.religion.kibology, alt.exploding.kibo and alt.imploding.kibo: What does all this mean?

    Once again, I quote Kibo himself, from post 3: 
    "WHAT'S KIBOLOGY?"
That's a long story, and I won't burden you with the explanation right
now.

"WHAT'S ALT.RELIGION.KIBOLOGY FOR?"
Kibology.  And almost anything.  EXCEPT POSTMODERNISM AND XIBO'S
CAFFEINE-INDUCED WHINING ABOUT HIS LACK OF A SEX LIFE.

"WHAT'S ALT.EXPLODING.KIBO FOR?"
For discussion of the act of blowing Kibo up, watching Kibo
spontaneously explode, drawing ASCII pictures of Kibo's head exploding,
sound files that go *BOOM*, etc.  And almost anything else, except
postmodernism and Xibo's stuff.

  5. Xibo: The who, what, where, when, how and why.

    Xibo is the anti-Kibo. Xibo is NOT ALLOWED. Kibo has stated several times that Sean Coates is Xibo (post 20, etc.). He once even called Sean "Xibo" Coates BIFF (post 69). I doubt the latter, and so should you, unless informed otherwise. Or not.

  6. BIFF: The who, what, where, when, how and why.

    BIFF IZ A K00L D00D L00KING 4 S0ME WARZ!!!!!!!!!!! K-RAD WARZ KAN B F0UND 0N HIZ 0LDER BR0THER'S C0MPUTER, MAN!!!!!!!!! BIFF is sometimes spelled B1FF (B one F F). Someone, I forgot who, wrote a program that converts regular text such as this into BIFF-style writing, i.e. upper case, zeros instead of o's, Z endings for words instead of S's, and so on. BIFF is modeled after young kids who get on their brother's Commodore 64 or Atari 400 and type in all upper case, and who, in general, think they're really cool (K00L) and know everything about hacking software (WARZ). BIFF has been imitated by many people, including the page that I link you to in this section.

  7. SPOT: The who, what, where, when, how and why.

    Spot is a dog. He's NOT ALLOWED either. We wouldn't want Spot to hear obscene jokes, he's just a dog after all! Here's a picture of Spot:
                   ____    
              /    \__  
  |\         /    @   \
  \ \_______|    \  .:|>     "Dogs aren't ALLOWED?   WAAAAAAH!"
   \      ##|    | \__/                       
    |    ####\__/   \                         -- Spot
    /  /  ##       \|
   /  /__________\  \
   L_JJ           \__JJ

  8. NOT ALLOWED: The who, what, where, when, how and why.

    If you're NOT ALLOWED, you're not allowed. That's all there is to it. Kibo decides who is and isn't allowed.

  9. The Dr. Pepper joke.

    This is a joke that Kibo claims to have heard in the seventh grade. I know the answer and trust me, you don't want to know the answer. Actually, I won't tell you the answer: if Kibo wants everyone to know the answer, then he'll post it! This also exempts me from the lawsuits that are sure to follow, lawsuits for damages related to busting a gut while laughing.

  10. The Green Golfball Joke.

    Nobody knows the green golfball joke, much less the answer! That's my theory about the joke, but I could be wrong.

  11. The Kibology FAQ.

    The alt.religion.kibology FAQ gives answers to frequently asked questions (FAQ) on the Kibo newsgroups. Kibo authored this FAQ himself, who better?

  12. The Kibology IAQ.

    Click here for the alt.religion.kibology IAQ, a list of INFREQUENTLY asked questions and some of their answers.

  13. The Kibo Inside GIF.

    Click here for the Kibo inside GIF. "Intel inside" stickers should be replaced by this immediately. Otherwise, Microsoft won't allow you to downgrade to Windows 95.

  14. HappyNet: The who, what, where, when, how and why.

    HappyNet is Kibo's replacement for USENET. The 1994 HappyNet manifesto can be read by clicking here. Or, click here for the HappyNet GIF.

  15. BOZOs: The who, what, where, when, how and why.

    Kibo is no ordinary bozo.

  16. Beable: The who, what, where, when, how and why.

    "Beable" is a bad word that Kibo came up with. After all, all these bad words that you hear in movies and NYPD Blue have to come from somewhere! I have a GIF of what a beable is. This was posted to alt.binaries.pictures.misc, alt.religion.kibology and alt.silly-group.beable by acbul1@mdw023.cc.monash.edu.au (andrew bulhak) under the subject "Raytraced impression of a beable" on 2 Dec 1994 05:52:20 GMT. This picture, according to the post, "was raytraced using POV 2.2 on an Alpha AXP 3000; the resolution is 800x600. The image was rendered with antialiasing." I've reduced the image to half-size to save some disk space.

  17. Now that I know the background to Kibology, what else should I know?

    This what else you should know: Kibologists crosspost constantly. My favorite group to crosspost to is alt.starfleet. Why? No reason, that's just another part of Kibology! Also, new users occasionally stumble in and ask "Who is Kibo" and "What is Kibology" and other such questions. NEVER give them a straight answer. That's 90% of the fun of being a Kibologist! Most of the time these questions end up being long-lasting threads with each post offering a completely different (and totally incorrect) answer.

  18. Why am I doing this?

    To offer an alternative to the BIFFish Kibology pages elsewhere. Though this page isn't entirely serious, at least it's organized!

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