nut bar

[Jesse Sheidlower]

HDAS (and hence OED) has a 1978 example from _National Lampoon_.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 08:01:18AM -0700, Lisa Galvin wrote:
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> The fiirst time I remember hearing the phrase "nut bar" (as a variation of "nut", meaning crazy person) was in the movie Wayne's World 2 (1993):
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> Del Preston: (Goes off-topic from stage positioning): In the event of capture, I will personally distribute cyanide capsules, to be placed under the tongue like so. Any questions?
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> Garth: Yeah. I have a question. When exactly did you become a nut bar?
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> Lisa Galvin
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> > Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 01:59:24 -0400
> > From: aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM
> > Subject: nut bar
> > To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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> > Poster: Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM>
> > Subject: nut bar
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> > I know I am occasionally surprised by quite ordinary things (I live a
> > sheltered life). So here's another opportunity for somebody to complain
> > about another vapid post. In an LATimes story on Sharron Angle:
> >
> > http://bit.ly/bmViEG
> > > "She gave Reid the opportunity to define her as something of a nut
> > > bar," said Ted G. Jelen, a political science professor at the
> > > University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
> >
> > I've heard several variations on "nut", but "nut bar has not been one of
> > them. But it does appear likely to be rather ordinary:
> >
> > http://bit.ly/bD8tRg
> > > Those familiar with the electrogravitics research of American
> > > physicist T. Townsend Brown will quickly say that he is a nut-bar.
> >
> > http://bit.ly/cU6kMk
> > > Q1.) Did you like working with Peta Wilson on La Femme Nikita?
> > > VON: YES. Peta is a nut bar. She has great dedication to the craft.
> > > Once she is able to harness all that passion she will be a good actor.
> >
> > http://bit.ly/aV0igl
> > > Brucey plaigeized an article from a left-wing nut+bar rag...word for
> > > words...cut-and-paste..with no accredication.
> > > ...
> > > When I sourced the post and indicated that the ENTIRE post was
> > > plagiarized and gave the source, the IDIOT stated (paraphrased)
> > > "thanks for posting and therefore driving traffic to the nut+bar source".
> > > ...
> > > When I called the nut+bar out on his vapid drivel he immediately
> > > posted entirely vitriolic anti-Canadian tripe.
> > > ...
> > > In attempts to "Brucify" posters Brucey had posted under monikers
> > > "Oracle/Will/Diefenbaker/Attak (sic) and others, the only person he
> > > managed to influence was Twitless and now we have Bowie and Maz
> > > conversing with this heluim-weight nut+bar.
> > > ...
> > > Brucey is a nut+bar of MONUMENTAL proportions and everything he posts
> > > that is not totally illiterate is plaigerized.
> >
> > The last source is Canadian and I love the use of "accreditation" in the
> > first line (one A-word is much like the other). But "nut bar" in the
> > comment about Peta Wilson (another Canadian) appears to mean something
> > else entirely. Is there a nut bar for nut bars?
> >
> > VS-)
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