Someone tell me, what exactly is batshit crazy?

[KillCapitalism]

Just curious as to what DU's definition of this is. I'm kind of guessing it means crazy to the extreme.

Would these two individuals be considered batshit crazy?

[Symarip]

1. If seven out of eight threads you start have something to do with how great Billy Corgan is

You're probably a few short of a six pack.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

5. If you profess to liking a band whose greatest contribution to the world was....

....a musical interlude in the Rodney Dangerfield movie "Back to School" (which--to its credit--I'll admit had its moments as a lightweight 1980s comedy), then you are probably a few beans short of a chalupa.

[jobycom]

6. Or if eight of eight threads you start are to start fights by bashing entertainers.

You might also not have a full load in your truck bed. :P

[XemaSab]

2. Batshit is rumored to be the vector for Ebola

People with Ebola are pretty fuckin' nuts.

Hence, batshit insane.

[PeaceNikki]

3. Another

[geardaddy]

4. You forgot the poster child for Batshit Crazy

[Noodleboy13]

15. DING DING DING DING!

[jobycom]

7. Dried guano is a disorienting drug, and constant exposure to it can cause insanity.

So it's a very crude, old saying that was probably more prevalent in the days when guano mining was a mainstream job.

And if there's any truth to my comments, it is purely by accident, although it sounds so believable I'll have to look it up.

[woo me with science]

8. Interesting.

I didn't know that guano could refer to bat shit. I looked it up, and you are right.

Thank you for that bit of information.

[jobycom]

10. You've obviously never seen

[woo me with science]

11. Well, what do you know.

I wonder what else Jim Carrey could have taught me.

[jobycom]

19. He was pretty good at blowing David Caruso's routine on CSI...

[Bertha Venation]

9. Me when the Halos won the Series in '02

Oh, wait, not THAT kind of batshit crazy.

Never mind.

[BarenakedLady]

12. Did you look it up in the dictionary?

What picture did you see?

:shrug:

[av8rdave]

13. I can't remember if batshit crazy is a level above or below toys in the attic crazy

[stklurker]

14. The "Three Little Pigs Sandwich"

http://www.eatmedaily.com/2009/02/bourdain-calls-three-little-pigs-sandwich-greatest-sandwich-in-america-video/
(bottom video clip)

Tony says so himself at about the :42 mark...


I would like to try one of these some day.. his description at the :42 mark seems appropriate...

[kwassa]

16. The possible origin

However, it was interesting to note the first recorded usage of each of the elements of the phrase: bat appeared as bakke in C.E. 1340; shit appeared as schite in C.E. 1308; and crazy appeared as crasie in C.E. 1583. Knowing as we do that a) modern English words beginning in sh or sch began life as Scandinavian words beginning in sk, and b) bakke, with its hard b and double k, is obviously also of Norse derivation, it wouldn’t be too improbable to guess that Vikings were running around Northern Europe describing last night’s pillaging as totally “bakke-skite.”

http://therebuker.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/batshit-crazy/

[TK421]

17. The top one is Batshit crazy...the one on the bottom is just Batshit n/t

[SoxFan]

18. Different kind of batshit

Good Batshit Nuts:




Bad Batshit Nuts:


http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_bGFQXeEAqLw/SRIodXL1zNI/AAAAAAAACHw/dXTEsbEikQk/S306/Palin+Jindal.jpg

[applegrove]

20. Right on both counts though I only know both of them by reputation. Never seen

either on the tube.

[Currently Unemployed]

21. Look, bats crap when they are hanging upside down.... Isn't that crazy? nt