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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