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Originally Posted by GeoffC
What does it mean " to be sick ? " ..
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I looked it up in my "OED For The Common Man":
Sick,
adj.
1. Afflicted with an unnatural fetish of some variety, particularly one related with either squirrels, gorillas, cockroaches, lions, squids, dogs, bubbles, pastries, poissons (especially if it's next to the blue one), canards (and, basically, all other French nouns), liseuses (let me try again: liseuses, liseuses; I just can't get that one), avatars which are not your own, or the spleens, intestines, or other internal organs which are not you own.
2. Not in proper condition; impaired:
you're a sicko [noun, sorry] because you spend time reading and/or posting messages in The Lounge at MobileRead (or, anywhere else in the forum if you do so while completely nekkid - not even a towel!).
3. Mentally, morally, or emotionally deranged, corrupt, or unsound:
a sick mind; c.f. 1, 2