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    Posted: March 28 2011 at 14:31

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 LOL

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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Points: 32524 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 28 2011 at 14:35
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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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 28 2011 at 14:41
Did someone call me?
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Points: 32524 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 28 2011 at 14:42
Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Did someone call me?


LOL
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Points: 402 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 28 2011 at 14:55

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 Smile



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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




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Points: 402 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 28 2011 at 15:57

Logan, thanks!

As always, there's a lot going on in Hammill's lyrics LOL
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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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Originally posted by AtomicCrimsonRush AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:

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!


Really? I always took it to be quite a vicious attack against another individual, nothing to do with Hammill himself.
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Is Nutella the female equivalent of nutter?
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