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Bachmann Bails, Perry Pondering

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Gus1/04/2012 10:07:47 am PST

re: #77 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

How do you catch a squirrel?
Climb up a tree and act like a nut.

nuts (adj.) Look up nuts at Dictionary.com
“crazy,” 1846, from earlier be nutts upon “be very fond of” (1785), which is possibly from nuts (n., pl.) “any source of pleasure” (1610s), from nut (q.v.). Sense influenced probably by metaphoric application of nut to “head” (1846, e.g. to be off one’s nut “be insane,” 1860).

Connection with the slang “testicle” sense has tended to nudge it toward taboo. “On the N.B.C. network, it is forbidden to call any character a nut; you have to call him a screwball.” [“New Yorker,” Dec. 23, 1950] “Please eliminate the expression ‘nuts to you’ from Egbert’s speech.” [Request from the Hays Office regarding the script of “The Bank Dick,” 1940] This desire for avoidance accounts for the euphemism nerts (c.1925).