Oh God, even in her sleep she was a basket case.

She'd be sent to Virginia and come out a basket case.

This whole business is turning me into a basket case, he thought.

According to all the statistics, you should be a basket case by now.

"If not, they're going to be a basket case into the next century."

Who knew whether the little basket case might be packing something?

But who would lend money to such a basket case of a government?

In the end, he's still a basket case, but somehow all right.

Pam says he's been a basket case since his wife died.

But I think it's fair to say that better than half of us still warm were basket cases.

After tea she wrapped up some fruit cake for me to take back home.

"There's a nice bit of fruit cake for your tea," she said.

One of the older girls had made tea, and now she brought this in, together with the rich fruit cake on a plate.

It is often referred to as Hawaii's version of a fruit cake.

Now give me a piece of that fruit cake and stop being silly.

There was time to make a fruit cake too and everything she needed to make it with.

She went to the ice chest and took out a lump of fruit cake.

Cut a 2.5cm/1in thick slice from one side of the fruit cake.

Stands 15cm/6in high and can bear the heaviest fruit cake.

"His wife kept her fruit cake and the good sheets in it."

I need all five of the space cadets for the infrastructure work.

Murray rolled her eyes, giving me the same look I gave my kids when they were playing space cadet.

And you're just what you always were, an incorrigible space cadet.

Maybe that explains your being a space cadet all day.

"Those two space cadets never know when to quit," Leslie said.

Friends they might be, but she was not a naïve space cadet anymore.

She seems like a bit of a space cadet, but I suspect she's quite shrewd, really.

Here she stood face-to-face with a genuine space cadet and, for once, not one born on this world.

But the most important show of all time, at least for us space cadets, was Star Trek.

He just can't communicate a clear idea because he always seems like such a space cadet.

Pirate - 1 month 19 days ago This woman has been a complete nut job for years.

It takes a nut job, as far as I am concerned.

I'm not one of the nut jobs saying that medication is all evil and bad.

This nut job is going to go on killing until somebody stops him.

What if some nut job like this got his finger on that button?

Concerns about Iran - who wouldn't be with nut jobs in charge?

Many of them seem like nut jobs and are ultimately unelectable.

There's just way too many nut jobs out there for us to keep up with the leads.

An increasing number of men have also forked out for a "nut job".

Given the politics around here, it could be some nut job against the death penalty.