When my kids were little, I worked as an editor at the Book Review, and I had the crazy good fortune to possess the desk next to hers.
Benny knew that she was crazy about fortune telling so he went to an astrologer, paid her twenty-five dollars and promised her twenty-five more if she'd draw up Radie's horoscope showing her that the planets were against any change in work.
His two nerd boys, Al and Miggs, had, in the craziest twist of fortune, both succeeded in landing themselves girls that summer.
Granted there were fortunes funding crazy ideas then, but even so.
In the Pacific Northwest, Dr. Chastagner said, previously shaded understory plants like salal and huckleberry celebrated their Christmas good fortune by "going crazy," and evergreens that made it through the tangle developed stunted lower branches.
Fortune magazine was crazy for the dome, proclaiming in April 1946 that "Fuller's house has a better than even chance of upsetting the building industry," partly because Dymaxions would be made "the way everything else is made, in factories".
He said: "That's crazy - I made a fortune, we've had the best year we've had so far".
"This is going to sound crazy, but we're coming full circle," Fortune said.
In Fortune's world that's crazy.
Mike Lupica argues in The Daily News that they would be crazy not to contemplate it, considering the ridiculous fortune paid for the Dodgers.
