This urge to push our physical limits can be seen in the rise in popularity of what I call lunatic or non-fun runs.
She was always fun — inspired, lunatic, playful.
Trump "is a lunatic who even makes fun of people with disabilities," said a Twitter user from Saudi Arabia writing in Arabic.
"I am the lunatic bride I always made fun of".
It's fun, and it's lunatic and finally, after 40 minutes, the pageant ends, and Ringmaster Galliano, draped in an off-the-shoulder raccoon coat, po' boy hat atop his slick head, comes out for a bow.
During my truck racing days I gained the reputation of being a lunatic and it is not much fun because you start believing it yourself if you are not careful.
Tremble Copse, Wrath Copse, Anxious Crossroads, Howl, Doleful and Crazy Trenches, Folly Lane, Ominous Alley, Worry Trench, Mad Point, Lunatic Sap, and then Unbearable Trench, next to Fun Trench, Worry Trench, Hope Trench, And Happy Alley.
And, honestly, the more I watched, the more my mind kept wandering to Shonda Rhimes's "Scandal" — an ABC series that's soapy rather than noirish but much more fun, and that, in its lunatic way, may have more to say about Washington ambition.
To the strains of Fun Boy Three's "The Lunatics Are Taking Over The Asylum" (now that's more like it), and wearing cowboy boots and a white leather biker jacket, though happily not together, Alex Drake and Gene Hunt are back.
Have you ever been to a rave at a hockey rink, surrounded by 6,000 dancing lunatics, and thought to yourself: "This is fun.
