[Charles Henrickson]

One of our favorite DUmmie thread-types is the one in which the poster relates a real-life incident wherein he or she (or it) comes off as the Valiant Prog Hero, boldly confronting and/or converting a poor backward rethuglican. Often these stories are highly embellished, to say the least, if not downright fanciful. But it does gain the poster some Underground-fives from his fellow DUmmies.

This is what’s called a Bouncy Ball story, named after the DUer who was known for these kind of stories.

Yes, I was going to ask the Conservative Cave dwellers to explain the background and concept of a "bouncy."

[darkangel82]

A Bouncy is a story about a fictional encounter with supposed “freepers”, usually involving verbatim “recalling” of political conversations or events that never happened, and often ending in the “freeper” becoming a liberal.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

Darkangel pretty much has it right, but he forgot to mention the bong rating system.

[Ballygrl]

The bouncy’s usually include stories about regressives attacking conservatives in public places and getting a standing ovation when confronting conservatives by the crowd around them, the public places are usually places like McDonalds or other food places or for some reason auto repair shops that have Fox News on, and almost always involve senior citizens. They’re usually started by people looking for “street cred” at DU or by people who are extremely insecure about their political opinion being the minority opinion, and the thread is usually followed by insecure people giving high 5’s, kudos and K&R’s and no doubt moles who rain on their parade LOL.