Nuthead

If she ever referred to the events, she laughed them off as silly kid stuff, and called the ex-boyfriend a nuthead, the way you speak of someone who drove around in high school smacking metal mailboxes with a baseball bat.

As Joanne Hartzell, a longtime clinic administrator in a South Atlantic state, stated pithily in explaining why she does not worry, “We're a target with some, but there are nutheads out there everywhere.”

“The people at the British Museum told us afterwards,” Einarsson recalled, “that they get so many letters every day from nutheads! They considered us nutheads!”

Mum doesn't want a diamond ring out of a cracker, nuthead!

Hey, I wasn't kidding myself that I was writing for a bunch of stupid little nutheads. I was writing for kids who could understand stuff as well as I could — at least, I felt they were that way.

You called all of us nutheads. I can do that arithmetic as good as you can.