"Wacky" is a very 80s word. Not sure if that’s true, but it feels true.
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Replying to @zinoman
I think we, at the DL show first iteration, revived that word ironically because it was so 70's variety show TV. I don't think anyone was using it seriously except hack TV.
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Replying to @Merrillmarkoe
Interesting. I def learned the word through you all, and probably didn’t catch onto the irony at first, but then did, and delighted by it. Was it common in 70s variety?
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Replying to @zinoman @Merrillmarkoe
I associate it with Wacky Packs: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wacky_Packages …
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Replying to @emilynussbaum @Merrillmarkoe
You’re the third person to tweet this, so you’re not alone. But I had never heard of it at all.
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The New Yorker, in reviewing my first novel in 1991, said that I was "wacky." Given that I imagined myself to be a mashup of John Barth, James Joyce, and Donald Barthelme, it was not exactly the adjective I had dreamed of.
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Haha. Would not have guessed the New Yorker to use the word then.
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Phew. And I thought I was alone chasing rabbit holes. :)
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