[Magdalen] "insane"

[Allan Carr]

I misremembered. The game was actually 21-3 at the half but rose to 28-3 in the third quarter with another deja vu touchdown by the Falcons. That made the comeback even more spectacular.

One theory is that Donald Trump jinxed the Patriots by predicting, on the O'Reilly show before the game, that the Patriots would win by 8 points. Fortunately, the Donald, a Patriots fan, was so irritated by the Patriots' sloppiness in the first half that he left off watching the game in whatever club he was in, stalked out to his car and the jinx left with him.



> On Feb 6, 2017, at 12:32 PM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:
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> ROTFLOL!  :^)  I'm glad you enjoyed your football game, Allan!
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>> On 2/6/17 1:51 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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