"Out of his tree" (crazy)

[Wilson Gray]

I agree with Jon, too. That may be slightly more meaningful, given that I
was born, sadly, in the mid '30's. Well, to look on the bright side, at
least I'll be dead before the world runs out of oil - assuming that the
supply lasts reasonably beyond 2010 - and I have no children to worry about.
;-) And I have been fortunate enough to outlive the old "New Look": hems no
higher than six inches above the floor. These days, a flash of kneecap isn't
enough to cause a guy to get a concussion walking into a tree or break his
ankle stepping off the curb.

-Wilson

On 3/29/06, Jim Parish <jparish at siue.edu> wrote:
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> Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> > Goes back to the '60s in my experience.
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> Same here (although, since I was born in the late '50s, that doesn't
> mean much). There was a classic Peanuts cartoon from that era, in
> which Lucy is berating Linus for talking about the Great Pumpkin: "You
> talk like someone who's fallen out of a tree! You're stark raving stupid!"
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> Jim Parish
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