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SWBTATTReg

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2. I had to look up 'professional crank'...seems to fit this idiot's description...

Reply to Zorro (Original post)

Thu Jul 23, 2020, 01:44 PM

Jul 2020

Crank (person) explained. "Crank" is a pejorative term used for a person who holds an unshakable belief that most of his or her contemporaries consider to be false. A crank belief is so wildly at variance with those commonly held that it is considered ludicrous.

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