Zanies

I discovered the word "zanies" - I can't remember where I read it - and I tried to use it as often as possible. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Even to the pundits on our own side, I was just one of those “Internet zanies” mucking up the debate. ❋ Jack Cashill (2011)

For him to be basically the put-upon straight man surrounded by zanies, including Allison Janney as the wacky boss and Nate Torrence as her nincompoop son, seems like a waste. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Is it a workplace comedy where zanies rule the sometimes literally circus-like atmosphere? ❋ Unknown (2011)

But even in this much earlier comedy, the exiled protagonists lose their fixed identities in wandering — and promptly find themselves in the company of clowns and zanies who might ha ve stolen right out of 'The Year of the Hare.' ❋ Pico Iyer (2010)

Watch the zanies on the far left enjoy this Scott McClellan thing pan out. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The haplessly inept former Alaska governor and VP candidate is a media hot ticket item; a multi-millionaire; and a rallying point for millions of Christian fundamentalist, rightside zanies and disgruntled GOP conservatives who detest Obama's policies. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Truly, the best thing that could happen with the birther thing would be for Obama to produce his full birth certificate and shut all but the utter zanies up. ❋ Steven Barnes (2009)

As part of its marketing effort, HSBC provided a platform labeled "SoapBox" one day last month in New York's Madison Square Park, encouraging folks to make like Hyde Park zanies, to stand on the box and declaim about Big Issues. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The show chronicles the Jewish influence in cartooning from Zuni Maud's satirical drawings in early 20th-century Yiddish newspapers, through the works of comic-strip giants R.be Goldberg, Al Capp and the zanies at Mad magazine, to the hippie-dippy social commentary of R. Crumb and the serious, modern works of Mira Friedmann and Art Spiegelman. ❋ Unknown (2008)

As to 'regurgitating drivel' [I like the expression, by the way] ... the dim witted lord of the 'talking points' and his zanies have made a low art of repeating the same inane material ad nauseam. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But when it comes to news about matters less thrilling -- and of lesser interest to conspiracy theorists and news zanies (you know who you are!) -- we sometimes need to be patient for word to drift out. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Last month in Dallas, the Assassination Symposium on John F. Kennedy drew specimens of all these types-plus a few hardcore zanies. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I hear that this world is full of zanies and fools, who don't believe in sensible rules, and don't believe what sensible people say, and that this is the reason impossible things keep happening everyday. ❋ Elizabeth McClung (2008)

Onstage, after a breathtaking arrival by flying saucer, dripping with ermine and feathers, swaggering on mighty giolden platform boots, George Clinton as Doctor Funkenstein leads his outrageous gang of zanies in a superflash, superfunk extravaganza. ❋ Michael Evans (2005)

The feeling one gets is that he considers most oppositional people as zanies, and most of his audience was clearly in agreement. ❋ Unknown (2006)