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Word: weirdnesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...easy chair. Maybe the lights are off and there's a cup of tea on the table by your side. The radio dial casts a dim glow. You're relaxed, listening to the immensely popular Chase and Sanborn Hour, starring Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy. It's weird, listening to a ventriloquist and his dummy on the radio - how can you be sure Bergen's not cheating? - but the two of them are funny enough. A few minutes pass before some joker of a singer comes on. Time to switch the dial. All you want's the dummy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Orson Welles' War of the Worlds | 10/30/2008 | See Source »

...built all the shelves from pieces of a TV console and got the rest from Dickson Brothers. I think they thought I was weird. I was there a lot,” he says. “I’d text my blockmates on Saturday morning and be like, ‘Can I start hammering now?’” Despite the inconvenience to his neighbors, Batt believes the final result was well worth the labor...

Author: By Sha Jin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pimp My Dorm Room | 10/29/2008 | See Source »

...Princeton band just came out in a weird "y","4", or upside-down lowercase "h" formation. No reference has been made to the Citadel incident...

Author: By Crimson staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: LIVE BLOG: HARVARD AT PRINCETON (10/25) | 10/25/2008 | See Source »

...there wasn't any deep psychological exploration, just a slam-bang fun thing. There's this one villain called Lord Death Man, and his ability is basically to die. But much more importantly, he comes back to life and starts to haunt Batman's dreams. All kinds of wonderful weird things happen that don't get explained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Book Designer Chip Kidd | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

...Marcus' father tells him. "How do I know you're not going to places where you can get yourself killed?") Like Portnoy, Marcus escapes to college in Ohio, where he is baffled and inflamed by the attentions of a sexually unfettered shiksa. Unlike Portnoy, Indignation is a weird, flawed little book, full of undigested dialogue and cut-and-paste philosophy (including a 10-page argument about Bertrand Russell that culminates in a fit of vomiting). It's half fantasy and half tantrum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Older Writers Revisiting Their Younger Selves | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

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