cuckoo-for-cocoa-puffs

[Joel S. Berson]

This comes from the commercial (of the '80s, I'm told).  That cuckoo
was certainly "crazily enthusiastic"; he/she can be seen in
YouTube.  So not purely an alliterative origin; alien archaeologists
20 years from now will certainly know what it means and be able to
trace its source.

Joel

At 8/25/2012 01:14 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>I heard somebody else use this phrase on CNN in the past week (as a synonym
>for "crazy" or "crazily enthusiastic").
>
>JL
>On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:
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> > In 20 years,  will anyone know what this means?
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> > "That in itself speaks volumes about the cuckoo-for-cocoa-puffs essence
> > of the contemporary GOP."
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> > Or will we be analyzing it as some sort of alliterative iteration?
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> >      VS-)
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> > PS: If anyone cares about the origin, that's Kathleen Geier, subbing on
> > weekends at the Washington Monthly blog.
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