From: ted@loft.tnolan.com   
      
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   Jan Dean   wrote:   
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   >The old geezer wrote:   
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   >> Jan Dean wrote:   
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   >>>Can anyone explain what this expression MEANS?   
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   >>>It makes no sense whatsoever.   
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   >> He's been "going out of his mind".   
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   >How does "out doin' in my head" mean "going out of my mind"?   
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   >"Out" is the opposite of "in."   
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   >Can a person by "in" his head while "out" of his mind?   
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   >Exactly WHAT is he "doin'" in his head?   
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   >Or should we understand "out doin'" to mean "outdoing?"   
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   >Is he "outdoing" some crazy people by acting even crazier?   
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   >Could it be he's "Busy Doin' Nothing" in his head? Har har!   
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   >Is it some idiomatic expression indigenous to Hawthorne, California?   
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   To "do in" something is to ruin or murder it.  "He was done in by   
   the mob".  To "do in" your head is to get wasted, go on a bender,   
   go crazy.   
      
      
   				Ted   
      
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