276: coo coo Sep 10, 2015

Someone who has a lot of coo coo clocks is either very German or very crazy. The word 'kook' is a word started in the 1960's to mean a crazy person, and comes from the word 'cuckoo'. Why birds inspire the idea of craziness is because insane people were thought to make the same ridiculous noises as the cuckoo bird. In this way, swirling your index finger around your ear to explain that someone is a loon is the same as a bird-call

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