"weird" as a verb

[Mark A Mandel]

On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Baker, John wrote:

#        I don't have the exact wording in front of me and the quotes
#of this on the web apparently are all done from memory, but Douglas
#Adams used "out-weird" as a verb in "The Restaurant at the End of the
#Universe" (1980):  "Listen, three-eyes, don't try to out-weird me.  I
#get stranger things than you free in my breakfast cereal."

IMHO that's derived from the adj., approx 'don't try to be weirder than
me'. (Remember that Zaphod, who is saying this, looks like an Earth
human but has two heads and three arms; he had the extras added to
improve his ski-boxing.)

-- Mark A. Mandel