chris@byucsa.UUCP (Chris J. Grevstad) (02/11/85)
. I am interested (for my own bizarre reasons!) in compiling a list of phrases indicating that someone is crazy. For example: I don't know if his biscuits are all done. I think he has a screw loose. Lost his marbles. The lights are on but nobody's home. Not playing with a full deck. Please mail all responses as our news connection is real flaky. Thanks and I will post a summary. -- Chris Grevstad {ihnp4,noao,mcnc,utah-cs}!arizona!byucsa!chris If things don't change they will probably remain the same.
mgv@duke.UUCP (Marco G. Valtorta) (02/12/85)
My wife suggests the following idioms: half-baked; luny; nuttier than a fruitcake; out to lunch. Marco
steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny) (02/15/85)
** I tried to respond by mail, but no luck: He or she is: one brick shy of a load. not rowing with both oars in the water. -- scc!steiny Don Steiny - Personetics @ (408) 425-0382 ihnp4!pesnta -\ 109 Torrey Pine Terr. ucbvax!twg --> scc!steiny Santa Cruz, Calif. 95060 fortune!idsvax -/
shor@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Melinda Shore) (02/17/85)
Another one that's not bad is "not firing on all four cylinders." -- Melinda Shore, Microcomputer Laboratory University of Chicago Computation Center uucp: ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!shor Mailnet: staff.melinda@UChicago.Mailnet Bitnet: shor%sphinx@uchicago.bitnet ARPA: staff.melinda%UChicago.Mailnet@mit-multics.arpa
jeff@rtech.ARPA (Jeff Lichtman) (02/19/85)
> . > > I am interested (for my own bizarre reasons!) in compiling a list > of phrases indicating that someone is crazy. > > Please mail all responses as our news connection is real flaky. Thanks > and I will post a summary. > > > Chris Grevstad I tried mailing this to you, but it didn't work. Hope you see this, Chris. Here are some contributions to your list of terms describing crazyness: nuts his elevator doesn't go all the way to the top not all there space case driving with two wheels in the sand half a brick short of a full load running on empty bats in the belfry about fifteen cents short looney bananas loco out to lunch a little off -- Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.) aka Swazoo Koolak
ellen@ucla-cs.UUCP (02/19/85)
"Loony" is NOT a particularly idiomatic word. it's roots go back to the Latin for "moon" ("luna"), because, at certain times, it was believed that those under the influence of the moon did not behave in a normal way. there is, in fact, data to suggest that this is the truth, however i'm going bonkers with work right now, and don't have my resources handy, and later i'll be out to lunch! ///|\\\ /// \\\ //{o} {o}\\ ll " ll 'll ~ ll` lll lll ''' ```
hrs@homxb.UUCP (H.SILBIGER) (02/22/85)
Bad chip!
mag@gitpyr.UUCP (Mark A. Gravitt) (02/24/85)
My two favourite expressions are: "He's not playing with a full deck" "No, he is playing with a full deck --- 52 Jokers" (Card purists can, of course, change that to 54 Jokers...) -- Mark A. Gravitt | "You, therefore, love one User Assistant | another and in patient Office of Computing Services | endurance conceal one Georgia Institute of Technology | another's shortcomings." Atlanta, GA | [Testament of Joseph 17:2] ..!{akgua, allegra, amd, hplabs, ihnp4, masscomp, ut-ngp}gatech!gitpyr!mag ..!{rlgvax, sb1, uf-cgrl, unmvax, ut-sally}!gatech!gitpyr!mag
ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) (02/27/85)
> > My two favourite expressions are: > > "He's not playing with a full deck" > > "No, he is playing with a full deck --- 52 Jokers" > (Card purists can, of course, change that to 54 Jokers...) Personally, I'm playing poker with a pinochle deck. -Ron
neal@denelvx.UUCP (Neal Weidenhofer) (04/22/85)
> Another one that's not bad is "not firing on all four cylinders."
It used to be " " " " eight "
My gawd, what have the Ay-rabs done to us? :-)
I also like "lost his marbles"
Regards,
Neal Weidenhofer
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Stones" <hao|csu-cs|brl-bmd>!denelcor!neal