Talk:Freak
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This page has now been updated from the starting file, a redirecting link to the article "Freak Show".LunarMoon 22:38, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Article cleanup
Have cleaned up article but work still has to be done on Naturaul freaks and made freaks.
Work is needed on the first sentence as well. The first sentence should be a consice definition. Bertus 13:53, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
== See also "malaprop" reference to "Freaks and Geeks" is a bit inappropriate following the Napoleon Dynamite example. N.D. definitely fits into the "geeks" portion of the F&G cast. "Freaks" in the TV show's title refered to Lindsay's new friends, the alienated stoners (as opposed to her brother's friends, the alienated nerds).
Judd Apatow's use of "freak" in that sense was not novel, of course, as anyone who's ever seen a copy of The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers can attest. "Freak" as a synonym for "heads" was intended to be highly insulting, but was co-opted (as most slanderous labels eventually are) and soon hippie-types were encouraging one another to "let your freak flag fly".
On the other hand, the use of the phrase "solar ellipses" later on the page is beautiful and should be kept.
Edited out some obvious attempts at defamation - cyberliche 4:20pm EST 9/11/06
[edit] made freak
We need a few examples of 'made freaks'.
[edit] Cleaned up
I've done a general rewrite and clean-up + provided more examples.
