[Magdalen] "insane"

[Marion Thompson]

Laugh?  I thought I'd cry ...  had a crazy evening watching The Game 
with local friends.  The husband was taping the pre-game and game and 
so, as we arrived and set up the snacks and bevvies,he was on again off 
again fast-forwarding through ads (in Canada we didn't get the US ones) 
and issued our pool tickets.  At some point before half-time we 
adjourned for some food.  So more manipulation of recordings and back 
and forth "Have we seen this? We've seen this!"  Replay this, go through 
those ads.  In the end we got up to about 3 minutes left and  I was 
within 4 points of winning with Atlanta.  Then his Record ended.  It had 
stopped at 10 p.m., and we were now at 10:35.  Shrieks of hysterical 
laughter all around  "After all that!"  Frantic consultation of 
computers and sports channels.   WHAT?  Patriots won in overtime????  
How did that happen??   Anyway, it was all good for a hearty laugh.  I 
said to my hosts, "Do you do this every year?!?!"

Marion, a pilgrim, who now has had her annual dose of football.


On 2/6/2017 2:51 AM, Allan Carr wrote:
> Today I watched the most insane Super Bowl, and, in fact, the most  insane football game I ever watched. At the half, the Patriots were down 28-3 and didn't look like they belonged in the same stadium with the Falcons. By the end of the second half, Tom Brady had led the Patriots to a 28-28 tie. In overtime, the Patriots won with one more touchdown.
> It was insane, and the best game I ever watched.
>
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>> On Feb 5, 2017, at 8:15 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Sibyl I think it is maybe a second generation permutation of saying "crazy" as a similar reaction to almost anything. And yes, I've noticed too.
>> Lynn
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>> On Feb 5, 2017, at 10:09 PM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:
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>> Does anybody have any idea why the term "insane" seems to be complimentary or approving these days, especially in spam or clickbait, perhaps in modern slangy language, as the word "bad" was (mainly only for teenagers) a few years ago?  Teens, of course, delight in having their own language that confuses older people, cementing their age-group as an in-group, then the teens 5-10 years younger have totally stopped using it in that way, and the ones who originally used it seem to have also stopped, but "insane" appears me to be in spots attempting to reach the adult population.  It does have its normal connotation of "weird" or "unusual", but it also appears to have an approval, "superlatively good" message attached.  I only began noticing seeing it used this way in the last 5-10 years, and it doesn't seem to me to have the feel of an in-group thing, but to be in contexts aimed at everybody.
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>> Sibyl Smirl
>> I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
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