"crazy cottage"?

[John Doe]

Which one of these housed the crooked little man?




On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 7:52 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole <
adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Joel S. Berson wrote:
> > No I don't mean the TV game show.  Is "crazy cottage" a phrase used
> > (more than once or twice) to describe a lopsided building?  The OED
> > has no quotes.  Is there some more common term?
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> The term "crooked house" is sometimes used for lopsided and oddly
> proportioned buildings, I think.
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> The Crooked House is a public house in South Staffordshire England
> sayeth Wikipedia.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crooked_House
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> Crooked House of Windsor in Windsor, United Kingdom
> http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/photos/0,,20268781_20602002,00.html
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> Kids Crooked House website displays various playhouses
> http://www.kidscrookedhouse.com/
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> Crooked buildings: Flickr gallery curated by RadamesM - 16 photos
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/radamesm/galleries/72157626006219937/
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> The famous short story "And He Built a Crooked House" by Robert A.
> Heinlein is about a four-dimensional tesseract.
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> Garson
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