Despite this, audiences still gobbled up this story because it was quirky – because it was kooky – because it celebrated letting your freak flag fly.
A three-way tie-up with the Left Party is mathematically possible, but the party is considered kooky by the centre-left mainstream and contaminated by its East German roots.The two likelier outcomes are thus a coalition between Mrs Merkel's camp and one of the centre-left parties, especially the less ideological SPD.
But that activity was regarded as novel and slightly kooky.
A Dalí-influenced Dalí-influenced a shat manageshapede chic, not kooky.
Still, kooky anti-vaccination fears appear to be doing real harm.
Far from being a kooky outsider who merely exorcised images from his subconscious, he is now understood as an artist inspired by the imagery of his hard life.
As kooky and Californian as this strategy sounds, Ms Smiley is convinced it works.
Meanwhile the far-left party Die Linke (The Left) gradually disciplines its most kooky elements and begins seeming responsible, at least some of the time.
Yet kooky as it sounds, the idea of an ocean-going campus does fit into wider trends.
Others, less jaded, offer kooky observations: Chinese women come into the labour wards just before midnight (as restaurants close), Pakistanis in the small hours (as taxi-drivers come off shift) and Hasidic Jews at 10pm (no one knows why).Not all of the cast of thousands are engrossing and the level of detail sometimes confuses more than it illustrates.
They called him kooky, and laughed at him for doing weird stuff.In the early 1950s, when he began to get into it all, computers meant serried desks of girls with hand-held calculators.
