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- From: paul@svl.cdc.com (Paul Kohlmiller)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: Wanted: Ways to Say Someone's Crazy
- Keywords: phrases crazy
- Message-ID: <49861@shamash.cdc.com>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 22:53:13 GMT
- References: <By6Fo3.DGo@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <cass8806.445.722546345@elan.glassboro.edu>
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- cass8806@elan.glassboro.edu (Kyle Cassidy) writes:
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- >In article <By6Fo3.DGo@news.cso.uiuc.edu> kaman@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Geri Kaman) writes:
- >>From: kaman@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Geri Kaman)
- >>Subject: Wanted: Ways to Say Someone's Crazy
- >>Summary: ways to say someone's crazy
- >>Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 16:12:01 GMT
- >>Keywords: phrases crazy
- >>Geri Kaman
- >>kaman@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu
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- >toys in the attic
- >truely gone fishing
- >elevator doesn't quite reach the top
- >a few sandwitches short of a picnic
- >down a few pawns
- >missing some buttons
- >nuts
- >wacko
- >"mental health consumer"
- Seems to me Johnny Carson must have made about 1,000 such phrases.
- I can't think of them when I need them but here are a few:
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- When you break open his pinyata (sorry, no enya) you don't get any candy.
- Not all of his biscuits are baked.
- A few bricks shy of a load.
- Elevator doesn't stop at all floors.
- Not well wrapped (or not tightly wrapped).
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- I like the one about sandwitches but that leads to a whole generic form:
- He is 1 (2 or 3 or a few) _objects_ short of a _collection_.
- Let's see if I can do one on the spot:
- He is 3 words short of a sentence.
- He is a few lines short of a (computer) program.
- He is a few genes short on the chromosone test.
- It gets a little sick after a while but if you need a new one and only
- one then maybe you can create one.
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- Some phrases are regional.
- In the south bay you might say he belongs in Agnews.
- In N.W. Pa. you say he's a candidate for North Warren.
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