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• n  an insane person
• n  a reckless impetuous irresponsible person
• s  insane and believed to be affected by the phases of the moon

• Among the seven-minute masterpieces: Tex Avery's lunatic Porky's Preview, Frank Tashlin's magnificent Scrap Happy Daffy (a wartime fantasy of scrap-saving and Hitler-bashing) and .
• They promised to kill innocent Americans and praised the lunatic murderer Charles Manson.
• It's also all in the telling, so it plays on comics' need to earn approval through lurid pirouettes of a lunatic imagination.

• madman
• maniac
• daredevil
• madcap
• hothead
• swashbuckler
• harum-scarum
• moonstruck

News & Articles

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• Newspaper Profiles CM Punk’s Stint with Backyard Wrestling Promotion
  Hyping CM Punk’s much-anticipated return to the squared circle on Sunday night at WWE Payback, the Chicago Tribune has published an article profiling his first wrestling venture; a stint in the late 1990?s for a backyard wrestling promotion called Lunatic Wrestling Federation.
  June 16, 2013 - The Wrestling News Page
• Chicago Newspaper Takes A Look Back At CM Punk's Stint With A Backyard Wrestling Promotion
  Hyping CM Punk's much-anticipated return to the squared circle on Sunday night at WWE Payback , the Chicago Tribune has published an article profiling his first wrestling venture; a stint in the late 1990's for a backyard wrestling promotion called Lunatic Wrestling Federation.
  June 16, 2013 - Lords of Pain
• Our five favorite ALL-CAPS rants
  This week, the U.S. Navy forsook a tradition dating back to the 1800s. Why? Because it's now too easily confused with the musings of an Internet lunatic.
  June 15, 2013 - CNN

Quotes

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• Darren Fletcher in Donside Today
  I have turned into a mental fan now I am not on the pitch,Fletcher said. "I really need to calm down. People are looking at me and wondering 'who is that lunatic?'" "But it is just getting to that stage where the club want to...
• Stephen Lewis in News24
  Lewis accused it of espousing "theories more worthy of a lunatic fringe than of a concerned and compassionate state."