ALL'S I'M SAYING IS THERE'S A LOT OF WHACKO STUFF OUT THERE.
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Yet Ms Ward and her whacko pals illustrate another reason to fear for his party's future.
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Trump, not surprisingly, is not his biggest fan -- calling him a "total whacko" at a recent rally in West Virginia.
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"I think he's totally whacko, but I do think that there's a segment of the population that is appealed by that whackoness," he added.
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"Rhetoric" didn't make today's whacko shoot either" National Review Online Editor Charles Cooke: "This editorial is an unconscionable disgrace and the Times should be ashamed.
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And you think when you're over it, it just sort of goes away, but then it comes back in the form of a mad man, a whacko.
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I imagine that Johnston would have enjoyed Tisa's humor, his DIY aesthetic of iffy proportions and whacko pizzazz, though I'm not sure she'd understand how the rest of the exhibition derives from her dynamic vision of the future.
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Republicans both mainstream and whacko, from Jeb Bush to Donald Trump, describe a country enfeebled militarily, ailing economically and culturally corrupted by seven years of Democratic rule; on the left, Bernie Sanders describes an economy rigged against ordinary Americans.
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President Donald Trump, speaking at the Values Voter Summit over the weekend, told religious conservatives that he would "never allow the IRS to be used as a political weapon" and referred to O'Rourke as a "whacko" for his proposal.
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"To think that if there's massive inflation that Congress and the president will be able to act is completely whacko," says Marc Goldwein, policy director at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, which advocates for lowering the national debt.
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"He didn't qualify for the state hospital because he didn't show all the symptoms of being a complete whacko," says Bickart, who adds that Kohlhepp's birth father put him up for adoption when he was younger because "he couldn't control" his son's violent temper and unpredictable outbursts.
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Campbell also named one of his dogs 'Whoppit'. Another teddy bear mascot was found as a 'wife' for Whoppit, named 'Mrs Whacko', who did not ride with Whoppit but stayed with Tonia and the pit crew.
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The former longtime chief editor Iain Calder in his book The Untold Story asserted that after the Burnett lawsuit, while under his leadership, the Enquirer worked hard to check the reliability of its facts and its sources. Carol Burnett and Whacko, Inc. vs. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation In 2007, Burnett and Whacko, Inc. brought a suit against Twentieth Century Fox requesting at least $2 million in damages, alleging copyright infringement, violation of publicity rights, and misappropriation of name and likeness due to the use of her charwoman character and an altered version of "Carol's Theme", the theme song used in The Carol Burnett Show, without her permission.
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She has been described as someone "viewers love to hate", a "superbitch" and a "fun whacko", but Gem also been called "one of the soap's most irritating characters". One critic thought Beck was doing "an excellent job" and the character's appearance and introduction also received positive attention.
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Mhlongo's acting career began when he was 13, appearing on the film Scavengers in 1987. In 1992, he then joined the musical and political film, Sarafina! in which he played his own name but was given the nickname "Whacko". He also appeared in films including Kein Himmel über Afrika (1993) and Cry, the Beloved Country (1995).
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Swan discussed this period in an interview: "I was getting terrible migraine headaches and had these verbal battles with Mort. So it was emotional, physical. It just drained me and I thought I'd better get out of here before I go whacko." After leaving comics for the advertising world in 1951, Swan soon returned, for DC's higher paychecks.
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From 1968 to 1972 The Beano ran a similar series, The Belles of St. Lemons. The Dandy has had two similar series: the 1970s Whacko (about a teacher who taught in a suit of armour because of his unruly pupils) and P5 from 1998 to 2000, also about a class and their long-suffering teacher. P5 was republished in 2006 as Class Act.
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The Edwards character bore more than a passing resemblance to Sergeant Bilko as he tried to swindle the children out of their pocket money to finance his many schemes. The first six episodes were subtitled "Six of the Best". In 1959 a film was made based on the show, called Bottoms Up!. The series was revived in colour with updated scripts in 1971–72, slightly retitled Whacko!.
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Rebecca Lake from the same publication called her a "fun whacko".The Age's Larissa Dubecki said "Another year, another psycho alert in the Anglo-Saxon enclave of Erinsborough", while also branding Gem "increasingly unstable". A writer for TV Soap observed that the addition of "superbitch" Gem was another new direction for Neighbours and that she was the first bad girl "viewers love to hate" since Izzy Hoyland (Natalie Bassingthwaighte). The Daily Star's Peter Dyke and Katie Begley called Gem "an evil schemer".
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Gary Warren (born 5 July 1954) is a British former child actor, best remembered for his role as Peter in the 1970 film The Railway Children. Warren was born in Cricklewood, London. As well as his film appearances, he played Cedric Collingford ("Owl Face") in the TV series Catweazle (1971) and Taplow (the troublemaking pupil) in Whacko, as well as starring as Alexander in his own TV sitcom Alexander the Greatest (1971). In the West End, he played Mame's nephew in the musical Mame starring Ginger Rogers.
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Thus, in 1936, the pavilion prepared to enter its second era - that of variety entertainment. This was to be the theatre's golden age, with the Pavilion firmly on the tour list of every major artist. Thousands of top acts appeared there over the years, including household names like George Formby, Ted Ray, Semprini, Petula Clark, Arthur Askey, Bryan Johnson, Bill Maynard ("Greengrass" in Heartbeat), Jimmy Edwards (Whacko!), Russ Conway, the Beverley Sisters, Cyril Fletcher and Cliff Richard. Special mention should be made of Welsh singer Ivor Emmanuel, who appeared regularly on Sunday night bills for many years.
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In the 2019 sitcom Year of the Rabbit, Merrick was played by David Dawson as a pretentious theatrical type. In 2002, American heavy metal band Mastodon included an instrumental track, "Elephant Man", on their album Remission. In 2004, on their album Leviathan, they included a similar instrumental, "Joseph Merrick", as well as "Pendulous Skin", on 2006's Blood Mountain. On their 2005 album Doppelgänger, American band The Fall Of Troy released a song titled "Whacko Jacko Steals the Elephant Man's Bones", the title referencing reports that Michael Jackson had attempted to buy the skeleton from London Hospital.
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At the time, the cane was still used in many British schools and coincided with the revival of the Jimmy Edwards TV show Whacko so this sort of behaviour was deemed perfectly innocent, as were the regular slipperings that Dennis The Menace received. In one strip Whacky reasons how he got his name: that when he was first born the nurse smacked him on his rear! The character was typically dressed as an old fashioned schoolboy: blazer (when in colour it would either be green, orange or red), matching cap, shirt and tie and school shorts, even in the winter. When not at school he usually wore a sweater; however, he still sported his school uniform shorts.
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