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  • In an effort to sanitize Paramount's portrait of a demimondaine, the studio publicity department churned out reams of flapdoodle, defining Holly as a "kook" rather than a B-girl. When Words Go Lightly to Screen
  • From barbershop quartets to gospel close-harmony groups to doo-wop to the kooky a cappella experiments, vocals-only pop music has a long history.
  • ‘He seeks out kooks and spends money like a drunken sailor in port,’ said RNC spokesman Michael Collins, obviously not the son of a Navy man.
  • I blame it all on becca who called me in the middle of the night to talk to me all about how the two best friends names are Kate and Becca and that the main character lives in apartment 601 as my address and other kooky details that i have been trying to forget nightly since i saw that movie, And then every sound is that kid coming out of the television and im only writing about it now in order to expunge as i fear she will grab hold of my foot from under the desk and eat me or turn me into something decomposing or whatever it is she does. I-claudius Diary Entry
  • Then there are the Socceroos and Matildas in soccer, the Kookaburras and the Hockeyroos in field hockey.
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  • Allen also captured something in Keaton which can't be described except in cliches: kookiness, wackiness, ditsiness. The Guardian World News
  • The moment somebody thinks they've nailed the grand alchemy that makes Dali a genius somebody else came along and offers a new, kookier explanation. The Birth of Girma Dali
  • But, I figure those two wonderful, kooky kids could hook her up with the best places to go for music and fun.
  • Back in the 1970s, its supporters were considered kooks and lunatics.
  • I wish the people here in VA could give a coherent answer to why they voted for kooky nellie as our AG .. Think Progress » Pawlenty Admits That ‘There’s Probably Some Political Overtones To’ Health Care Lawsuit
  • -- Tis a gift to be feeble tis a gift to be asleep, tis a gift tocow-touw to the fascistcreep, andif we find ourselves in a FEMA camp tonight, we will know that the loonies and kooks were right. OpEdNews - Diary: The Purpose and Practice of Sarcasm
  • Is my AG kooky nellie really going to speak ayt one of these rallies? Think Progress » Michigan Militia plans ‘open carry’ gun tea party to ‘take the stigma out of the word militia.’
  • Artist-film-maker Miranda July's wide-eyed kooky persona has never been more painfully self-regarding than it is in her drivelsome relationship break-up fantasy The Future. Berlin film festival – review
  • From flying foxes to laughing kookaburras and live crocodiles, they'll meet elements of nature that, for many people, are worlds away from Baltimore.
  • The new barman didn't believe in the supernatural or poltergeists or anything kooky like that, he just knew an useful ally when he saw one.
  • I looked up "maunder" and I think it would make an excellent stage name: -) 9: 28 PM skookumchick said ... Added to the Blogroll
  • Doonan sees these provocateurs not as a bunch of kooky broads but as important representatives of the evolution of women's culture.
  • Diary of a Bluestocking: dawn chorus now available to read in skookum boom skip to main Dawn chorus now available to read in skookum boom
  • So the cassowaries, kookaburras, koalas, kangaroos, crocodiles and wallabies that one goes to Australia in the hope of seeing are all there.
  • Everybody   who   does   this   job   has an epiphany   moment,   says   Brett Bishop, the fifth generation of his family to work the Little Skookum inlet, an oysterman in arguably America's greatest oyster grounds, Washington's South Puget Sound. The American Oyster Paradise
  • Do film-makers just make use of the kookaburra to conjure up exotic tropical atmosphere - or are there birds with similar calls?
  • The play concerns three southern sisters: a wallflower, a kook, and a failed singer but successful sexpot.
  • I worry just as much, however, about the kooks out there who think that now is the time to plant a bomb.
  • April 19, 2010 at 9:08 am otay, whew! ai kleered mai temp fyles an kookies an loggd bak inno weerd press an ICHC, anow ai kan see kitteh! And THIS Yoga pose is called - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • Yeah, you got to look out for those skookum women, I mean, floods ... Inequality on the ground and in space...
  • The set, lighting, costumes and props - along with a kooky, swinging Vegas-style soundscape - are outstanding.
  • The storefront office was essentially a filter for the kooks—the knuckle-draggers, the gunnies, and the committed-ideologue nuts. How to Rig an Election
  • The younger generation look plain kooky in their big black overcoats emblazoned with East German military memorabilia.
  • Birds here are diverse and include honeyeaters, pilotbirds, cockatoos, pied currawongs, white-winged choughs, and laughing kookaburras, the largest kingfisher in Australia.
  • Look, I draw a very bright line between eccentric and kooky, which is completely fine, and child safety. CNN Transcript Oct 15, 2009
  • You'd struggle to find a kookier spot than this. Times, Sunday Times
  • Heart on sleeve, Lissie is a female singer-songwriter, but with all kookiness removed. This week's new live music
  • It seems Bennett was led down this road by a remarkably kooky caller.
  • That was the year we lived on the banks of the Doo Wah Diddy Diddy and we danced the doodah day ballet in bubblegum trees with crested kookaburras until the dawn broke like crystal goblets smashed against the rocky cliffs of time. Unday Morning
  • I wonder if kooky, free-spirited Suzette will teach her how to love life again by the final credits?
  • Old friends were alienated by her increasingly kooky and embattled militance. Early Right-Wing Whackwits
  • So the cassowaries, kookaburras, koalas, kangaroos, crocodiles and wallabies that one goes to Australia in the hope of seeing are all there.
  • Debate is stifled, and conservatives either go in the closet or get to be seen as slightly kooky.
  • Sakesman : Akk right, I guess you ' ve stayed up akk night because you kook so exhausted.
  • And then, of course, there is the teetotalling 50% of the Democratic party that never drank the kook-aid and knew he was a Huey Long from the upper midwest all along. Obama Reiterates: Combat Troops Out Of Iraq In 16 Months
  • It is home to possums, pelicans, the duck-billed platypus, the kookaburra, kangaroos and wombats, to name just those he found for us during our adventure into paradise.
  • We knit and crochet crazy creatures and kooky things, then leave our little stitched stories all over London. Times, Sunday Times
  • She `s got red hair and dangly ear-rings that make her look kooky. A MEANS TO EVIL
  • The mascots at the Summer 2000 games in Sydney, Australia, were a platypus named Syd, an echidna called Millie, and a kookaburra called Olly.
  • The Kooks settled in Afula, and Hillel received a religious education as a teenager. Crossing Mandelbaum Gate
  • Anu is initially treated as an outcast by the boys at the madrasa and is only befriended by Rokon, another outcast student who is viewed as something of a kook by his peers. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
  • With its kangaroos and kookaburras, and leg-of-mutton sleeves and button boots, this is a timeless story about the warmth of family.
  • The mascots at the Summer 2000 games in Sydney, Australia, were a platypus named Syd, an echidna called Millie, and a kookaburra called Olly.
  • His kooky gestures, facial expressions, attitude, and delivery were all perfect.
  • Somewhere, Obama campaign boss Bill Burton is already giving off-the-record briefings to Politico, saying that Total Write-Ins is "a kook" with ties to Ralph Nader and Dennis Kucinich.7.49pm: Staples ads are currently running on Fox News during its primary coverage – so that's another Super Pac for Romney I suppose. New Hampshire primary results - live coverage
  • Minority parties have a tendency to be kook magnets, and the Libertarian Party is no exception (would you rather we talk about Stan Jones, who turned himself blue with argyria because of ongoing ingestion of colloidal silver?). The Volokh Conspiracy » Libertarianism:
  • On the other side of the village is the Exmoor Falconry and Animal Farm, which not only keeps birds of prey and Shetland ponies but also has meerkats, a couple of kookaburras, and a llama.
  • I hope ours is a little kookier," Mr. Wilson said, "but I haven't gotten inside yet. Hamptons Eccentricity In Black and White
  • But this kooky flea circus is still worth a visit. The Sun
  • Actually… he sitting like that cause those cats were bred to tripod and look over tall grass. i cant remember why but i assure you hes not uncomfortable. i happen to have one. and hes never had any issues except he thinks hes a dog. mines a hybrid of this though… a skookum. But when the goggie does - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • When people stop caring about your kooky ensembles, just put on a normal frock and heels. The Sun
  • Maybe this time, TiVo will realize that modeling pricing strategies after the kookier extremes of wireless carriers is no way to build a business. Faster Forward: TiVo's new $99 and 'free' deals are no deal at all
  • Wifey grew up in a Nepalese village (she's ethnically Czech -- go figure) where they ate chickens which were called kookra (phonetic spelling -- sounds like it should be spelled along the lines of "kukri" like the ghurka blade). Maggie's Farm
  • Its beauty lay in its other-worldliness, its tone of kooky mystery.
  • The kooky bird suits are heavily featured in the film's posters.
  • It's a site dedicated to ‘cranks, crackpots, kooks, and loons on the Web.’
  • Kooks in tinfoil hats say things like, “But with your Neanderthal leader at the helm, we†™ re rapidly leaving civilization behind and are slumping back into some weird proto-fascist swamp.” Think Progress » Desperation.
  • The yammering kookaburra, usually so talkative, was silent, for he too was fast asleep.
  • Where are the serious people who can displace this flea-bitten ragtag circus of charlatans, illiterates, hucksters, kooks, and dumbells?
  • Their comportment and appearance are not kooky by any means.
  • True, most of the people there were kooks, crazies.
  • We knit and crochet crazy creatures and kooky things, then leave our little stitched stories all over London. Times, Sunday Times
  • He always seemed to be the one more into creating dance music, while Hyde and Smith were the experimental, progressive kooks, but that isn't the case here.
  • Him say you no skookum, no strong, all the same very soft like little baby. THE LEAGUE OF THE OLD MEN
  • The "kookiest" policy is arguably farm subsidies for corn, sugar, and tobacco — products that people ought to consume less, not more. Is Rand Paul Crazier Than Anyone Else in D.C.?
  • In a 1987 interview, he deplored what he called the ascendancy of "right-wing kooks (and) the ugly spirit (of Reagan's not so subtle message that) you should go get yours and run. IF Stone: An Iconic Radical Journalist
  • We still got an opossum, a red kangaroo, a Bennett wallaby, too, and millipedes, and a kookaburra, whatever that is.
  • Exposing a kook being entrusted with a mission of vital national security interest is pretty important.
  • That is one of the burdens of being a large, continent-sized democracy: the lunatic fringes are kookier, their clashes more heated and their forum that of the nation as a whole. Peter Baldwin: Why We Have Culture Wars and the Europeans (Apparently) Do Not
  • Sarcastro says: erp: What could be whackier, kookier or crazier than pursuing socialism when the evidence is overwhelming that it is a force for poverty and oppression while at the same time demonizing capitalism which has been a proven force for peace and prosperity. The Volokh Conspiracy » Who’s the Kook?
  • March 14, 2010, 3: 22 am jukeboxgrad says: skookum: The Volokh Conspiracy » Judge Reinhardt’s Dig on Sarah Palin
  • Officials and the media have pushed him into a corner by painting his farming methodology as kooky, religious woo-woo.
  • What they were trying to do was commendable, it's just that they were a little kooky about it. Times, Sunday Times
  • BoB says: looking at patriot act, Google “lil Red Book” get harassed due to their College work? while aei boobs from bohemia run the state dept freely? and that atta was known of well before 9/11? that many have died. that millions have been lied for what, political ideology? while ignoring other issues for your greed neo-kooks what have you done? that 8 billion was “lost in IRAQ” that aegis is shooting at civilians? that more billions have been lost? that Halliburton has engorged itself? mercenaries? Think Progress » Bush Caught on Tape: “A Wiretap Requires A Court Order. Nothing Has Changed.”
  • Sitting beneath fans of ferns, perfect natural sunshades, we were joined within minutes by two laughing kookaburras, a rosella and a yellow-breasted robin.
  • That's one nice thing about kooks - just when you think you couldn't expect them to get any dumber, one of them comes up with something utterly flabbergasting.
  • They think that ‘there are too many kooks out there.’
  • It's better to be able to figure out who the kooks are by their own words, so that one may treat them with the cold contempt they deserve.
  • Even though it sounds like we had free reign to write the kookiest things that came to mind and although the often-outrageous products warranted it, Hammacher house writing style was actually one of tremendous authority. When catalogs were catalogs: Lessons in writing from the Hammacher vault « The Retort
  • It's a kooky film that should've been just a bit longer.
  • Maybe it's the Maori ancestral blood going all kooky at being reunited with its ancient habitat?
  • _Skookum tillicum_," he muttered gravely, pointing his mittened hand toward the boy. Connie Morgan in the Fur Country
  • The only people who cite the Columbia study are kooks and religious zealots.
  • May 27, 2010, 11: 51 am uh_clem says: erp: What could be whackier, kookier or crazier than pursuing socialism when the evidence is overwhelming that it is a force for poverty The Volokh Conspiracy » Who’s the Kook?
  • In this year's series she came across as sweet, kind and slightly kooky. The Sun
  • Sadly, this kooky premise solidifies into formula: monster is fought and maiden won, with no surprises. Times, Sunday Times
  • Following an onstage nervous breakdown, Bamford moves back to her cold and kooky family in Minnesota to get her head together.
  • It's a site dedicated to ‘cranks, crackpots, kooks, and loons on the Web.’
  • For a kookier experience, book one of El Cosmico's restored trailers or yurts, or the 22-foot-diameter teepee. Drive-Through Vacations
  • This obsessive fan Mel - played to breathtaking perfection by Kristen Schaal, a US comic it is currently illegal to describe without using the word "kooky" - is based on a variety of real-life groupies. Culture | guardian.co.uk
  • Minority parties have a tendency to be kook magnets, and the Libertarian Party is no exception would you rather we talk about Stan Jones, who turned himself blue with argyria because of ongoing ingestion of colloidal silver? The Volokh Conspiracy » Libertarianism:
  • And it is presumably true by definition that ‘kooks’ will be excluded by a higher intellectual standards but why does a higher intellectual standard exclude right-wing kooks only?
  • PETE: Another classic from the kooky singer. The Sun
  • Also when I read Allan Bomhard or other Nostraticists, I try consciously to not get stuck into absolutive thinking and pre-judge people as either 100% kooky or 100% infallible. Allan Bomhard's "Toward Proto-Nostratic"
  • He will be black, not the tawny colour of the female with her beautiful long kookaburra-like, chevron-marked tail feathers.
  • During the day and well into the dark, the place reverberates with the sounds of bongo beats and novices practicing kookaburra noises on freshly-carved wind instruments.
  • Here, take the axe, shinny up the hill, and lug me down some _skookum_ dry wood. CHAPTER 15
  • The pendant is okay - pleasingly kooky, even - if worn under a jilbab, however. Times, Sunday Times
  • A striking comeback from one of the kookiest characters in modern music. The Sun
  • The first message was from one of my roommate's kooky friends, so I turned up the volume.
  • If this sounds like European avant-garde theatre at its most off-puttingly modish, the effect is in fact kookily funny and coolly self-aware. Thomas Ostermeier: 'Hamlet? The play's a mess'
  • May 27, 2010, 12: 32 pm geokstr says: uh_clem says: erp: What could be whackier, kookier or crazier than pursuing socialism when the evidence is overwhelming that it is a force for poverty The Volokh Conspiracy » Who’s the Kook?
  • What could be whackier, kookier or crazier than pursuing socialism when the evidence is overwhelming that it is a force for poverty and oppression while at the same time demonizing capitalism which has been a proven force for peace and prosperity.erpQuote The Volokh Conspiracy » Who’s the Kook?
  • Sitting beneath fans of ferns, perfect natural sunshades, we were joined within minutes by two laughing kookaburras, a rosella and a yellow-breasted robin.
  • But Barker? as the show's know-all, know-nothing pawnshop assistant, dispensing gnomic advice about women and America? appears in almost every episode and is (alongside fellow standups Kristen Schaal and Rhys Darby) one-fifth of the idiosyncratic quintet that made the show so kookily enjoyable. Arj Barker: Landing of the Conchord
  • Gawd, why do I have to be from the same state as kooky nellie? Think Progress » Why George Washington would disagree with the right wing about health care’s constitutionality.
  • Despite all the data pointing that way, the MSMers were still predicting maybe 15 or 16 pickups in the House, maybe cut in to the Republican majority a bit in the Senate, but any talk of taking back both houses was just naive netroot kookytalk. Poll: Obama And McCain Tied -- In Deep-Red Indiana!
  • Steal her kooky superhero style by teaming a metallic cover-up with a ladylike tote and shiny shoes. The Sun
  • The interior is a kooky mix of reclaimed wooden floors and walls alongside antique furnishings. Times, Sunday Times
  • At best, O'Neill's kooky book is highly marginal; more reasonably judged, the book is a joke.
  • Along the way, she meets a cavalcade of kooks and strange creatures including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, the White Knight, Humpty Dumpty, and the Jabberwocky.
  • Kook stood up and skirted the round table till he came to the small black oven that stood behind Taterra.
  • Maybe that's what started the kookaburra laughing.
  • True, the bottle of T.C.P. antiseptic (slightly to the right) is a reminder of splinters, stubbed toes, barnacle cuts from the jetty, and minor sailing accidents but fortunately nobody seems ever to have been seriously injured; never to my knowledge bitten by a snake or poisonous spider, and the only local indigenous wildlife I recall are possums, kookaburras, and a lone echidna which put in an appearance in about 1976. Archive 2009-04-01
  • LIMBAUGH: The -- there's a complicated answer to this and I'm going to have answer some of it in the monologue in the next hour, but one of the simple answers that will require some elaboration is that a lot of money is coming from these kooks -- and I'm not talking about just the blacks -- I'm talking about a whole kook-fringe base because George Soros is running it -- Archive 2008-06-01
  • I was displeased that the Iran correspondent of Al-Akhbar newspaper--of all places--called the kooky Iran holocaust "conference" "courageous. Sunday, December 31, 2006
  • It's a kooky mindblower that deserves a pat on the back. The Sun
  • No matter how hard the left in this country tries, they will never be able to totally squash FREEDOM. over-the-top kookiness about things that cannot be empirically proven. socialism is not a taboo boogeyman concept, nor does it operate antithetically to “freedom”. Think Progress » Florida doctor tells Obama voters they are not welcome: ‘Seek urologic care elsewhere.’
  • A kookaburra flies between the clusters of trees with buoyant, floating wing beats.
  • She is often self-conscious and uncomfortable, and seems a little kooky because that is just the other side of shy. Times, Sunday Times
  • A few species, such as pied kingfishers and laughing kookaburras are cooperative breeders.
  • Have a Zany Person: No matter what genre you choose to violate, every screenplay benefits from having a kooky character.
  • Lorikeets, rosellas, kingfishers, dollarbirds, kookaburras, cockatoos and a variety of other species make the Atherton Blue Gum a very diverse birding haven.
  • He is, Shorty exclaims, the "hi-yu skookum top chief of the whole caboodle," and the caboodle is 20,000 square miles of wilderness, home to a hundred thousand caribou hunted by a people using bone-barbed arrows and bone knives. “I am only a wild girl, and I am afraid of the world....”
  • Maybe some turd ferret like dorfeus maximus does but he is like all liberals, nobody listens to them anymore outside of their kook fringe base .. like stayfreeus - maxipaddus here the star trek nerd who lives in mommies badement attacking those evil conservatives. give it up maxi pad you are way out of your leauge and nothing you can say or do matters or will get me to stop voicing reason on this moonbat monolog you have going. .you have not the intelligence of a clam. Think Progress » VIDEO: Feingold Argues Emergence of Al Qaeda Leader Shows ‘Insanity’ Of Misplaced Priorities
  • Most of his commentators spruiked the usual ad hominems which come to think of it, if I was that Kooky and irrelevant, why would they spend so much intellectual capital on a no body? Thompson, Hardy, Hemp and the Snows of Kilimanjaro « Climate Audit
  • We can't trust those religious kooks to be fair minded, you know.
  • The articles on here are certainly interesting, but there seems to be an inordinate number of kooks contributing.
  • June 13, 2009 at 2:43 pm yu will lubs da sweet basils! dey grow liek weeds and dey taest wunnerful! ai used tu grow a gihugeous bocks ob dem on the fyer eskape outsied mai winnow. den when i wuld cut dem fur kooken, Shadow would tri tu reach up and grabs dem orf ob da tablol. ai had tu gibs her a leaf ob her own soz dat i culd kook in peas. And thats when he realized…. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • He is, Shorty exclaims, the "hi-yu skookum top chief of the whole caboodle," and the caboodle is 20,000 square miles of wilderness, home to a hundred thousand caribou hunted by a people using bone-barbed arrows and bone knives. “I am only a wild girl, and I am afraid of the world....”
  • Like many of the other distinctive oysters plucked from the South Sound -- the Tottens and Chelsea Gems, the Hammersleys, Elds, Wildcat Coves, and Eagle Rocks -- Little Skookums are notably full-flavored, but veer off into non-mermaidly characteristics, like minerals, earth, cream, and melon; they are often sweet rather than overtly briny. The American Oyster Paradise
  • In a broader survey of this population of kookaburras, the youngest nestling in broods of three was killed in one third of nests.
  • We knit and crochet crazy creatures and kooky things, then leave our little stitched stories all over London. Times, Sunday Times
  • There's a kookaburra outside my window as I'm writing today.
  • Other species include the well-known gang-gang cockatoo Callocephalon fimbriatum, glossy black cockatoo Calyptorhynchus lathami, superb lyrebird Menura novaehollandiae, crimson rosella Platycercus elegans, kookaburra Dacelo gigas, and satin bowerbird Ptilonorhynchus violaceus. Greater Blue Mountains Area, Australia
  • It was like the coolest, kookiest of school discos. Times, Sunday Times
  • GOFF: The official terminology, I believe, for a political move like that is called a kooky (ph) one, a wacky one, a loopy one. CNN Transcript Dec 30, 2007
  • A kookaburra flies between the clusters of trees with buoyant, floating wing beats.
  • Checked out her other designs – looks like someone is going kookoo crazy with the serger. Regretsy – Holy Matrimugly
  • I suspect there is a direct correlation between the 'dumbing down' of America through a crumbling education system and the pooh-poohing of knowledge as elitist, and the increase in kooky candidates and those already in office who spew brazenly incoherent rhetoric, scientifically disturbing stances, and culturally backward ideals -- a breed of candidates and politicians that is eminently unqualified for offices they hold or aspire to. Rizwan A. Rahmani: The Anti-Intellectualization of America and Commensurate Candidates
  • March 13, 2008 at 6:15 pm chawk-a-lot, chockotae ship Kookies, koted in choklit: brake in 1/2, dipp in chockolate fondoo, ete. BUKKIT SERCH PARTY - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • Back in the 1970s, its supporters were considered kooks and lunatics.
  • The detailed depiction of each sub-culture and craft and the style of presentation is so engaging that it does not matter that the big picture in the background is plainly kooky.
  • Some warmed to its kooky charms while others gave it a frosty reception.
  • Can he pass the message along to my AG kooky nellie? Think Progress » Kansas Attorney General Refuses To Sue Federal Government Over Health Care Reform
  • I didn't know what they were, but I wondered if they might be a species of kookaburra.
  • Elsewhere in the valley you might see other birds as fantastic as their names: gang-gangs, king parrots, satin bowerbirds, laughing kookaburras, and lyre-birds that dance in clearings with tails fanned out like peacocks.
  • He explains that each pitch typically lasts two to three minutes before judges either pull the ripcord on the stammering pathetic loser and his harebrained scheme, or persevere with the kook's chef-d'oeuvre. UK Faces Of The Week, March 13 - 17
  • Brains We all wanted to dress like her in that kooky Fifties vintage style. The Sun
  • And we teach LG to use "skookum" in everyday conversation. Yum
  • We skywayed above the famed Three Sisters peaks, bushwalked among waterfalls and canyons, and spotted lyrebirds, cockatoos and kookaburras in the eucalyptus-forested valley. Lea Lane: Only Have a Week? A Deluxe Quickie to Oz
  • A guy can look real normal, everyday, and turn out to be a kook. SORT OF RICH
  • Ignorant kooks like "kc" are pretty common, especially in the US. Blah, Blah! Technology
  • He'll probably say something kooky in his wacky language and then run off!
  • And Ayesha, with her curious mix of rabid work ethic and kooky naivety, looks right at home here.
  • John Skookum says: beamish: Normally, we use ‘lately’ for that sensenow. The Volokh Conspiracy » From Language Log to the New York Times Magazine
  • Monica : Okay, so I'm responsible, I'm organised. But hey, I can be a kook.
  • Elsewhere in the valley you might see other birds as fantastic as their names: gang-gangs, king parrots, satin bowerbirds, laughing kookaburras, and lyre-birds that dance in clearings with tails fanned out like peacocks.
  • And then it started to pour down rain, so I trudged back to my car like some wild-eyed prophet, taunted by the laughing kookaburras as I passed them.
  • Then there are the Socceroos and Matildas in soccer, the Kookaburras and the Hockeyroos in field hockey.
  • And I thought it was all cuddly wombats, koalas and kookaburras.
  • Lock brings convincing girlishness and kooky charm to the role of Laura; she's particularly funny in an early scene in which the girl -- dressed in pajamas and a helmet -- pretends to be an astronaut. 'If You Give a Pig a Pancake': Holly Twyford goes hog wild
  • The 58 million that Mccain got is mainly cuz of the base energisation and the liberal kooks’ agitation and profuse non-stop sweating at Palin which even more thrilled those on the right…LOL that Palin generated. Palin’s Appeal Proves Durable - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
  • Other species include the well-known gang-gang cockatoo Callocephalon fimbriatum, glossy black cockatoo Calyptorhynchus lathami, superb lyrebird Menura novaehollandiae, crimson rosella Platycercus elegans, kookaburra Dacelo gigas, and satin bowerbird Ptilonorhynchus violaceus. Greater Blue Mountains Area, Australia
  • She reckoned his kooky looks and responsive personality would make him the ideal house pet and, for four years, life was quiet.
  • What could be whackier, kookier or crazier than pursuing socialism when the evidence is overwhelming that it is a force for poverty and oppression while at the same time demonizing capitalism which has been a proven force for peace and prosperity. The Volokh Conspiracy » Who’s the Kook?
  • Wood fires are not known for their steel-melting capacity, but after a carbarn fire a steel trolley car resembles a plastic model which has been left near a hot stove a little too long which trivially debunks the kooky theories. Lies
  • Other birds include a huge American bald eagle called Liberty, buzzards, Harris hawks, vultures, laughing kookaburras and a pelican.
  • May 27, 2010, 11: 51 am uh_clem says: erp: What could be whackier, kookier or crazier than pursuing socialism when the evidence is overwhelming that it is a force for poverty The Volokh Conspiracy » Who’s the Kook?
  • The hiyah muck-a-muck from my dad's company trailered his boat down from Cultis Lake last summer and so we got to take his skookum boat out on the salt chuck. Languagehat.com: THE KAMLOOPS WAWA.
  • She was called a "bimbo feminist" and a "kook" and much worse. Naomi Wolf: true radical or ultra egoist? | Profile
  • Two kookaburras sat on the long arm of a gumtree, their backs to the wind, looking as if they had given up laughing for life. MURDER SONG
  • She is very much in the development stage: a kooky, 27-year-old adultescent who can't get her life together. Times, Sunday Times
  • Is my AG kooky nellie really going to speak ayt one of these rallies? Think Progress » Michigan Militia plans ‘open carry’ gun tea party to ‘take the stigma out of the word militia.’
  • Sarcastro says: erp: What could be whackier, kookier or crazier than pursuing socialism when the evidence is overwhelming that it is a force for poverty and oppression while at the same time demonizing capitalism which has been a proven force for peace and prosperity. The Volokh Conspiracy » Who’s the Kook?
  • He explains that each pitch typically lasts two to three minutes before judges either pull the ripcord on the stammering pathetic loser and his harebrained scheme, or persevere with the kook's chef-d'oeuvre. UK Faces Of The Week, March 13 - 17
  • I knew they couldn't have been serious about that kooky plan.
  • There haven't been too many successful male alumni from the notorious fame academy unless you count him from the Kooks and Dane Bowers, perhaps because we like our boy pop stars authentic and real – maybe this is why grime artist Bashy, another Brit kid, has yet to break through. Rizzle Kicks (No 890)
  • The 2010 Mazda2's clutch is watery, the Hankook tires squeak like stepped-on mice, the electric steering is as numb as an ice-road trucker's bottom. Mazda's Hot Hatch
  • Other species include the well-known gang-gang cockatoo Callocephalon fimbriatum, glossy black cockatoo Calyptorhynchus lathami, superb lyrebird Menura novaehollandiae, crimson rosella Platycercus elegans, kookaburra Dacelo gigas, and satin bowerbird Ptilonorhynchus violaceus. Greater Blue Mountains Area, Australia
  • When people stop caring about your kooky ensembles, just put on a normal frock and heels. The Sun
  • It seems like only yesterday that you were a kooky bunch of English kids with a funny logo, a taste for Marx and a fetish for vintage synthesizers.
  • Neither of them are kooks, they've simply been lied to by the people who are in charge.
  • Actually, I am still more annoyed by those lava lamps and balls, and now Google's aren't-we-kooky-as-ever dinosaur statue on its campus.
  • Two kookaburras sat on the long arm of a gumtree, their backs to the wind, looking as if they had given up laughing for life. MURDER SONG
  • We can only hope the damage these people do to our Nation is repairable, what a bunch of kooks! House Democrat: Health care bill in doubt without public plan
  • According to the author of the column I commented upon: “The name Jubal is, significantly, drawn from Stranger in a Strange Land, the novel by sci-fi writer and right-wing kook Robert Heinlein.” » Blogging and that ‘right-wing kook’ Heinlein heinleinblog
  • The kooks who said they were at war with their government are now completely silent now that a real tyrant is in power.
  • Helena Bonham Carter made a nice niche for herself for years, then branched out for "kookier" roles like her part in Fight Club. Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • It is the same Kook who refused to term Judaism a monotheistic religion, believing as he did that strains of purified pagan pantheism were essential to the essence of Hebrew religion.
  • The gorgeous, garish splendour of sunset pageantry flames out; the long shadows eagerly cover all; the kookaburras laugh their merry mocking good-night; the clouds fade to turquoise, green, and grey; the stars peep shyly out; the soft call of the mopoke arises in the gullies! My Brilliant Career
  • Rabbi Greenberg, a revolutionary in our time, took courage from Rav Kook, who said, There are times when there is a need to violate the words of the Torah since there is no one in the generation who can show the way to do it permissibly, and so it comes as a breach. Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater: Standing Up for Our Gay Kids
  • Given the foregoing, I am not entirely sure whether the author of the essay linked to in this post is a little on the kooky side or not.
  • I'm particularly fond of a garrya eliptica, a kooky shrub with foot-long tassels. Globe and Mail
  • When the reception was over, old Hector took charge of the homely games and athletic contests, and the day's delights culminated in a log-burling contest in the Skookum, in which the young laird participated. Kindred of the Dust

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