Starting a new tag category for MONDO BIZARRO! This will include a long and sporadic list of crazy theories and calculations, influxes of random insomniac narcolepsy, the cure for chronic string theory, and generally just an astounding variety of off-the-wall dream rants and rhymes shimmering on the twilight horizon of a creative writing exercise.
ABSURD
ABSURD
2. Of, relating to, or manifesting the view that there is no order or value in human life or in the universe.
3. Of or relating to absurdism or the absurd.
n.
The condition or state in which humans exist in a meaningless, irrational universe wherein people's lives have no purpose or meaning. Used chiefly with the.
CRAZY
ODD
CRAZY
1. Affected with madness; insane.
2. Informal Departing from proportion or moderation, especially:
a. Possessed by enthusiasm or excitement: The crowd at the game went crazy.
b. Immoderately fond; infatuated: was crazy about boys.
c. Intensely involved or preoccupied: is crazy about cars and racing.
d. Foolish or impractical; senseless: a crazy scheme for making quick money.
ODD
1. Deviating from what is ordinary, usual, or expected; strange or peculiar: an odd name; odd behavior. See Synonyms at strange.
2. Being in excess of the indicated or approximate number, extent, or degree. Often used in combination: invited 30-odd guests.
3.
a. Constituting a remainder: had some odd dollars left over.
b. Small in amount: jingled the odd change in my pockets.
4.
a. Being one of an incomplete pair or set: an odd shoe.
b. Remaining after others have been paired or grouped.
5. Mathematics Designating an integer not divisible by two, such as 1, 3, and 5.
6. Not expected, regular, or planned: called at odd intervals.
7. Remote; out-of-the-way: found the antique shop in an odd corner of town.
n.
1. Something odd.
2. Sports
a. In the United States, a golf score one stroke higher than the score of one's opponent.
b. In Great Britain, a stroke added to a superior golfer's score or a stroke taken away from an inferior golfer's score in order to equalize the chances of winning a match.
[Middle English odde, from Old Norse oddi, point of land, triangle, odd number.]
PECULIAR
[Middle English odde, from Old Norse oddi, point of land, triangle, odd number.]
PECULIAR
1. Unusual or eccentric; odd.
3. Belonging distinctively or primarily to one person, group, or kind; special or unique: rights peculiar to the rich; a species peculiar to this area.
n.
1. A privilege or property that is exclusively one's own.
2. Chiefly British A church or parish under the jurisdiction of a diocese different from that in which it lies.
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