Back on Earth a crackpot inventor had a lawyer busily garnering free advertisement by press conferences about the injury done his client by Spaceways, Inc.
I'm pathologically in revolt against such imbecilities as an overcrowded Earth and people being afraid of their jobs and people going crackpot from despair.
The possibility that the crackpot fringe could produce such a break-through panicked him.
I'll show you what it would be like to give attention to every halfwit and crackpot that comes begging for a handout.
This year, Baker is accused of giving upwards of five million dollars to crackpot groups and individuals who have no standing in the scientific community whatever.
Therefore, it wouldn't have happened--outside the crackpot fringe.
It would blast a hole in Baker's conviction that nothing of value could come from the crackpot fringe.
These had to be investigated--every lousy, crackpotone of them.
I do not doubt that the American Society for Psychical Research, for instance, has hundreds of crackpot books which I have never read, or even heard of.
In spite of the fact that the label was literally true, it sounded so crackpot that no one but a crackpot would bother to look into it.
Senator Gonzales was fond of the Society's crackpot receptionist, and he knew exactly what kind of hokum would please her most.
To any place away from Boulder Lake Park, and where I'm a human being instead of a crackpot civilian.
They merely told him that Makann was a crackpot with a contemptible following of half-wits, and just wait till the election and see what happened.
A crackpot agitator in Drepplin; he had a coven of fellow-crackpots, who met in the back room of a saloon and had their office in a cigar box.
You mentioned that you thought he was probably a little bit of a crackpot or somewhat of a crackpot for playing this game with his fingers like he was shooting a gun, but just generally what did you think of this guy?
I used to look at him, and I said, "Boy, what a crackpot this guy is!
I had no idea there were so many varieties of crackpot politico-economic systems among the UP membership.
During it a crackpot organization called Thirty Dollars Every Thursday managed to get itself on the ballot.
But you see, Ronny, the best colonists are usually made up of the, well, crackpot element.
Calmly they accepted their rise in the world as being due to one of their local townspeople, a crackpot professor.
Home of the crackpot theory and the latter-day alchemist.
One, it was so obviously crackpot that no one paid any attention to it except crackpots, and, two, it was perfectly, literally true.
You got no association with crackpot organizations, anything like that?
Look here, every crackpot on the planet will get into the act.
