The House Of Odd

There has been a term that has been thrown around the Internet a lot of late. The term I refer to is ‘bat-shit crazy’. It seems to be used a lot to describe a few of the rouge Republican presidential candidates, namely Ron Paul.

Just how crazy is ‘bat-shit crazy’? The Urban Dictionary defines it as “One step beyond just plain crazy” and “Acting in a generally insane manner”. But why ‘bat-shit’?

Real bat shit, or guano as the Spanish prefer to say, is really quite stable. Once excreted by the bat this dull fecal matter just stays plastered to a cave wall or left to pile up on the ground. Most would say that is far from crazy. It’s doubtful anyone would consider this nitrate-laden poop as even eccentric.

When one wishes to describe someone as being crazy beyond what is consider just plain old insane you really should use something that truly is nuts. Perhaps ‘Scientology-crazy’, or ‘Tyra Banks crazy’ would be better suited to describe a loon that goes takes crazy to ‘eleven’.