Pet'n

Pretending to be (by acting) intelligent when one's conduct is blatantly stupid. Feigning ignorance when in fact one has no choice...being genuinely ignorant and/or stupid. Lying about things which the entire audience knows to be false, yet one is doggedly devoted to the course of deception...for reasons no will ever understand.

I was talking to Ed again and he has not changed one bit over the years--he is still Pet'n.