How do you define a kook?

[wonko_the_sane]

Hi y'all. Loong time reader, 1st time poster. Anywayz...

Me and a mate were having this big barny today over kooks, or more to the point, how do you define a kook.

He reckons pretty much anyone who's never surfed and suddenly decides to take up surfing is a kook.

I said that's wad and a kook is someone with enough skill to be a danger to themselves and everyone else in the water ( y'know... like longboarders LOL )

What do yaz reckon?

[Jersey]

Anyone who starts a topic like this obviously

[FLY]

What do yaz reckon?

Looked in a mirror recently?

[lovinglife]

pretty boring out Emu Plains way ay wonko

[Juan Hung-Lo]

Is this another racist comment about Asians surfing here? People call me that a few times but I ignored them. Does Fong get this treatment too?

[jr]

kook has nothing to do with being asian. gook maybe

i stack it on take offs a couple of times a surf - i reckon i'm still a kook

[chrisb]

Is this another racist comment about Asians surfing here? People call me that a few times but I ignored them. Does Fong get this treatment too?

Welcome back KK.

[puurri]

Is this another racist comment about Asians surfing here? People call me that a few times but I ignored them. Does Fong get this treatment too?

not f****** likely.

[Juan Hung-Lo]

Why do people call me KK? I'm JHL and nothing to do with John Howard either

[WANDERER]

the answer is as old as the hills (near emu plains):

A kook is: anyone who has surfed for a shorter amount of time than you and/or anyone who surfs worse than you, and your mates are always kooks...


PS: well done on the Longboarders call, its highly amusing and original at the same time, your mother must be proud that you have such a highly developed wit, keep it up champion, you'll go far around here...

KK wants to know if "your mate" is a real friend... one that "you can touch"... dont worry, I dont want to touch your friends but Id be a bit worried about KK.

[Nick Carroll]

I'll have a crack at it.

A Kook is a surfer with an exaggerated idea of his or her actual surfing ability and importance, and behaving as such, in or out of the lineup.

[austeve]

I'll have a crack at it.

A Kook is a surfer with an exaggerated idea of his or her actual surfing ability and importance, and behaving as such, in or out of the lineup.

I agree ... all show no go

[aitch]

Anyone who doesn't know how to paddle a surfboard - you know, nose protruding up and out of the water, feet wide apart, pushing water and wearing a steamer on a 32°c summers' day.

[AlbyAl]

Nah - you're all on the wrong track: 'kook dates back to the early 1950s, when it was apparently fashioned in Hollywood from the much earlier 'cuckoo'. "Kookie" was the name of a popular TV series actor of the time.' (Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins) It designates a strange or crazy person.
You can imagine the line of derivation: via TV Gidget probably to the surf sub-culture in general, gathering a bit more vitriol as the years went by... and we in Oz gradually becoming Californicated got rid of the older 'egg-roll' and suddenly we're saying 'kook'. Get back to 'egg-roll', 'fuggwit' etc I say. Each 'kook' uttered is another nail in the coffin of Australia's proud surfing heritage.
Now where did I put those pills...

[Kunji]

I think a kook is someone who has been surfing for a while, but will never progress past the stage of beginner.

[rejoice]

I surf Manly all the time... It's a world class break!

[bro]

NC, that would make most pro surfers kooks!

[longbum]

I'll have a crack at it.

A Kook is a surfer with an exaggerated idea of his or her actual surfing ability and importance, and behaving as such, in or out of the lineup.

nail on the head.