Nutter Alert - meaning of this idiom?
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Topic: Nutter Alert - meaning of this idiom?
Posted By: Thandrus
Subject: Nutter Alert - meaning of this idiom?
Date Posted: March 28 2011 at 14:31
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Hello guys, As a resident of non-English speaking country, my language fluency has certain limits; reading the lyrics for VDGG's "Nutter Alert", I didn't understad the meaning of the title itself My internet search for the definition was in vain. I failed to find any exact definition of it. So, could anybody of you tell me, what "Nutter Alert" means? |
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: March 28 2011 at 14:35
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It's not really an idiom- a "nutter" is an insane or crazy person. So I think "Nutter Alert" would basically mean "Beware! Here comes a crazy person!"
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: March 28 2011 at 14:41
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: March 28 2011 at 14:42
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Snow Dog wrote:Posted By: Thandrus
Date Posted: March 28 2011 at 14:55
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That's actually what I thought at first, but Google found some uses of this expression all over the internet, so I thought it had some special meaning |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: March 28 2011 at 15:22
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Nutter alert: Nutter is also a town in the Netherland in the municipality of Dinkland (spelling?) which is not to be confused with the look-alike town but a few miles away from it called I Can't Believe it's Not Nutter. Nutter alert may be used by a navigator to alert the vehicle driver that the town of Nutter is near. For example, if the navigator sees a signpost, the navigator may excalim, "Nutter alert! Take a right at the next intersection". More commonly the navigator will utter "Nutter ho!", however. More commonly it is used as a warning meaning "beware of the town of Nutter". Incidentally, Nutter butter is quite famous for being very high in cholesterol, so the warning can refer to Nutter butter, but then the old saying is more often muttered "Nutter butter alert! Better stick to the Nutter butter substitute, I Can't Believe It's Not Nutter Butter" -- at least it's s said that way when it comes to English-speaking tourists. The Dutch, on the other hand, go Dutch, and the Greek.... EDIT: Here is a map of Nutter so you know how to avoid it: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_NL_-_Dinkelland_-_Nutter.png?uselang=fr" rel="nofollow - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_NL_-_Dinkelland_-_Nutter.png?uselang=fr |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: March 28 2011 at 15:25
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Posted By: Thandrus
Date Posted: March 28 2011 at 15:57
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Logan, thanks! As always, there's a lot going on in Hammill's lyrics |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: March 29 2011 at 00:52
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I think Hammill has always been referred to as a bit of a nutter, a madman, due to his lyrics, music and lifestyle and so he was responding to that with some spiteful digs at the things people judge him for. So the nutter alert means - hey guys, it's me, I'm back! The nutter is back so take cover! ------------- 
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Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: March 29 2011 at 02:10
Really? I always took it to be quite a vicious attack against another individual, nothing to do with Hammill himself. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: March 29 2011 at 20:46
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Is Nutella the female equivalent of nutter?
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