Frequently Asked Questions



Q: What is the purpose of this website?

A: To annoy people enough that they wonder what the purpose of it is.

Q: What motivated you to create this website?

A: The Gimp searched high and low for a website free of biased, arbitrary and capricious censorship, but with relevant, informative, and entertaining content. He couldn't find one so he decided to create one himself.
At the same time it's a marketing experiment. Can a website be a success in the highly competitive internet arena with ZERO marketing or production budget?

Q: Did you used to post as The Stig on the OCR?

A: Gee Sherlock, what makes you think that?

Q: Why did you change your name to The Gimp?

A: To make people wonder why I changed my name.

Q: Why are you anonymous?

A: The Gimp's fascinating personality and genius intelligence naturally attracts women like a moth to a flame. There are over 3 billion women in the world and only one Gimp, you do the math.

Q: Why do you think you are better than everyone else?

A: I have a mirror.

Q: Why do you have a Donate button on your website?

A: Why do they pass around a collection plate at church?

Q: Why do you use 24 hour time on your website?

A: The Gimp is a stickler for details. There are 24 hours in the day.

Q: Why are there so many ads on your website?

A: The Gimp promotes free enterprise, including his own.

Q: How old is The Gimp? (Submitted by BD)

A: A simple formula can be used to calculate the Gimp's age. Take the total number of countries in the world, divide that by the total number of cities in the State of Wyoming, times that by the number of electoral votes the State of California had in the 1992 election, add that to the year Osama bin Laden was born, subtract from that the year the first man landed on the moon, and divide that by the number of times Pedro Diniz won the Formula One World Championship and you have the Gimp's age.

Q: Your website sucks. What kind of a web developer are you?

A: I'm not a web developer, jackass. I taught myself HTML and do this in my spare time. Six months ago I didn't even know what HTML code was, now I have a fully functioning website. What have you done lately?

Q: You're always talking down on Christians. Why do you hate God?

A: What I say has nothing to do with God, my feelings for God, or my belief in a God. I don't even have a problem if a group of hare-brained individuals decide they want to meet together and call it worship. What I do have a problem with is the hypocritical business of organized religion and the judgmental, condemnatory and sometimes downright evil and deviant members it attracts.

Q: Do you moderate the comments on this website?

A: The Gimp has the ability to remove comments and block users but will not do so unless forced to by a user's violation of civil and/or criminal law or any other arbitrary reason The Gimp may deem appropriate. Repetitive posts for instance. Say it once. If you say the same exact thing a second time it either means you have some kind of involuntary mental spasm that forces you to repeat yourself, or you copied and pasted the original comment. Either way what you have to say is obviously garbage. Both comments will be removed.

Q: Why don't you have a privacy policy on your website?

A: Because The Gimp does not collect any personal information from site visitors. All comments and user profiles are administered by Google. You can view the Google Privacy Policy here. The only information The Gimp is privy to is the information you put on your public profile on this site. The Gimp has no access to your log-in or any other personal information about you.

Q: When I click on "Join this site" nothing happens. What's wrong?

A: Turn off your pop-up blocker.

Q: When did this site go "live"?

A: December 4th, 2009

Q: The Gimp obviously possesses superior intelligence. Does The Gimp offer advice to those of us who are not as cerebrally blessed?

A: Yes, The Gimp offers advice free of charge as part of his personal war on stupidity. Submit all requests for advice here.

Q: Do you allow trolls to join your site?

A: Absolutely! The Gimp welcomes trolls of all kinds, as long as they're creative and funny.

Q: Are you related to the gimp from Pulp Fiction?

A: No. The gimp from Pulp Fiction was a character in a movie, The Gimp on this website is a human being in real life.

Q: How many personas do you have? (Submitted by "Suzie")

A: This website is called "Who is The Gimp" and is written and composed entirely by The Gimp (unless otherwise noted). The Gimp is pretty good at math, for those of you who aren't, that equals "one".

Q: And, do you reside locally, or out of the state of Calif.? (Submitted by "Suzie")

A: That's almost like asking, "What's your real name?" For more information on The Gimp's location, check out Where's The Gimp?







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