Phone has just rang.

They might if you could construct your own characters - put in personality quirks, past life experiences, family and friends, obsessions, prejudices, location of residence, value of house and history of occupation/ownership, financial status, past and present occupations (and pensions from past ones) blah blah blah.

Then at a press of a "create" button, it whirrs for a minute or two, and a plot (of sorts) and suitable interaction and dialogue for the main character and his acquaintances emerges at the other end. Then the author gets it publishes as "My crazy life" or "Oddly enough . . ."

The list of free books that is emailed daily from eqreader has a lot that must have been created that way.

Elegran I don't think many novelists would buy such a app as the plot is so repetitive and boring, repetitive and boring, repetitive and boring, repetitive and…

I agree, Elegran. I have often had the thought that Frank is a carefully constructed and scripted character and we are the supporting cast.

It takes a very organised mind to compose the posts that FH sends. Whoever is writing them has to compute all that has gone before. If it is not a real or a virtual Frank writing them, then it is a master scriptwriter. If it is a computer app, a lot of novelists would buy it.

Ginny YES.

I agree with Nonu. I really don't think any of us should take him seriously. I suspect he / she doesn't expect us to either.

Ana , YES

Me too, Nonu! The only time I didn't like Frank was when he was 'celebrating' the death of someone.

I do not think there is ill feeling towards Hunter .
Think most people just take his posts with a pinch of salt, and have a good laugh .

I know I do !!

Can't we make a pact not to reply to any of Frank's OPs? Can't he see that it is his attitude which attracts all the ill feeling against him? It has gone way beyond a joke! I feel my blood start to boil as soon as I see his name, and I am normally a very placid person. My sympathy goes out to all who have come across him in their home or working lives. A life full of so much bitterness must be a very sad one.

Perhaps not who is Frank? but rather what is Frank?

Flowerofthewest He is probably what Donald Rumsfeld meant by a "known unknown" but it is possible that he is an "unknown unknown". Your question is one of the great imponderables of the twenty-first century.

I'm not entertained.

Frank is someone who keeps us all entertained and occasionaly uses bad language.

Who is Frank?

Beware Frank look what's currently happening to Wynne Evans

I suspect someone on GN has found out his phone number Form an orderly queue to own up!

Frank!
You didn't!

"Phone has just rung not "rang", Frank [sigh] emoticon.

ginny

I replied

f__k O__.

absent

Better to have some fool/drunk ring at one o'clock in the morning asking for the lunatic asylum than wanting to know what colour knickers one is wearing.

They weren't far off, were they?

Waxing gibberish more like nanaej