Freak weather effects on radar and overeager sonarmen may have accounted for many reports.

" Freak " in this sense may be used either as a pejorative, a term of admiration, or a self-description.

Freak out or similar may refer to:

Freak Show also served as the name for a CD-ROM released by the Voyager Company on January 1994, shortly after Laurie Anderson's first multimedia CD-ROM experiment, Puppet Motel.

Freak Show was also a stage performance by a theater company at the Archa Theater in Prague that premiered on November 1, 1995, and a comic book.

1998 also marked the first-ever Mailorder Freak Singles Club and featured Quasi, Small Stars, Sta-Prest and Rock-A-Teens among others.

* Saga of Darren Shan also known as the Cirque Du Freak series ( 2000 – 4 ) series by Darren Shan.

* Fat Freddy's Cat, who appears mainly in his own, separate strip at the bottom of the one-page Freak Brothers strips ( getting his start just as Krazy Kat did ) also has several multi-page stories devoted to him.

The title track, " Jesus Freak ," is also of historical importance.

Three 6 Mafia's " 2-Way Freak " and the smash hit " Bugaboo " from Destiny's Child also make reference to pagers.

After a relative flop with his fourth album, Garden of Love, in 1980, in which he traded most of his disco / funk origins for a more pop-R & B flavored project, he returned to the top with the grittier Street Songs, which was also the first to include rock and new wave elements, particularly in the album's leading single, " Super Freak ", which became James ' biggest pop hit, reaching number-sixteen on the Billboard Hot 100 and later winning him a Grammy Award nomination.

" " Freak " can also be used in a verb form, and can mean: " to become stressed and upset ".

' Freak ' can also be seen being used as a surname, derived from French and Scottish heritage.

Everett's music has also been featured on a number of films, including American Beauty (" Cancer for the Cure "), Road Trip (" Mr. E's Beautiful Blues "), Holes (" Eyes Down ," " Mighty Fine Blues "), Shrek (" My Beloved Monster "), Shrek 2 (" I Need Some Sleep "), Shrek The Third (" Royal Pain " and " Losing Streak "), Shrek the Halls (" The Stars Shine in the Sky Tonight "), Hellboy II: The Golden Army (" Beautiful Freak "), The Big White ( Last Stop ; This Town ) Hot Fuzz (" Souljacker, pt. 1 "), as well as most of the music in Yes Man.

" Weird Al " Yankovic also uses it in " Another One Rides the Bus ", and it is featured in Rick James ' " Super Freak ".

They also released the singles " I Used to Cry ", " Language of Love ", " Stop Breaking My Heart ", and " Le Freak-Tú Freak ", a cover version of the 1978 Chic song " Le Freak ".

He would also frequently refer to Criss Angel's show " Mind Freak " and how it was " the perfect title, everyone KNOWS what you mean and you can advertise ", whereas they could not.

After a strip named Feds ' n ' Heads ( published by Print Mint ), Gilbert created his most famous strip, The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers in 1968, and a spin-off strip, Fat Freddy's Cat in 1969, when he also co-founded Rip Off Press.

Max frequently mentions his old friend Kevin, also nicknamed Freak, throughout the book.

Of late, Cross has been song writing, singing, guitars and producing surf rock band ( now defunct ) Betty Airs, is performing, recording and producing folk duo Jep and Dep, recording his sophomore E. L. F folk album " Freak Out Inn ", and has also recently founded a new musical production company Bernstein Studios, in Sydney.

They also podcast their morning show " Dave and Chuck " The Freak "" along with their rock interviews.

" A 2009 Vice Records mix lists the following songs Bloc Party are influenced by: Eagle Boston's " Wild Wild Ost ", Pylon's " Working Is No Problem ", Delta 5's " Mind Your Own Business ", John Foxx's " Underpass ", Prince's " I Would Die 4 U " ( also covered live ), Sonic Youth's " Youth Against Fascism ", Dinosaur Jr .' s " Freak Scene ", La Roux's " Quicksand ( Nightrunners Edit )", and Bruce Springsteen's " 57 Channels ( And Nothin ' On )".

At the end of the opening sequence, she always finds something different under her desk ( similar to The Simpsons ' couch gag ), such as a mood ring or maracas ( also the letter Q in the episode " Vanessa Less Tessa ", a glowing green stick in the episode " Hazelnut's Finest ", a singing Dieter doll in the episode " Presenting Stewart Waldinger ", Mardi Gras beads, and her Ann's remote control in the episode " Radio Freak Hazelnut ".

" Jesus Freak Hideout also took notice of this, mentioning in a review that " Underoath's sound has evolved a lot-from metal to emocore to straight-up hardcore.

In 2006, Arnett voiced the character Duncan Schiesst for the Comedy Central animated program Freak Show, which was created by and also stars the voice of his former Arrested Development co-star, David Cross.

" Freak Show " also served as the name for a CD-ROM that was released in 1994, a stage performance by a theater company at the Archa Theater in Prague that premiered on November 1, 1995, and a comic book.

Studios like Insomniac and Game Freak are very rare in the video game industry because without the direct support of the platform owner, it is very risky financially to be developing solely for a particular platform.

Cook then went on to be a member of numerous other acts including Freak Power, Pizzaman and The Mighty Dub Katz to moderate success.

) This is a reference to the comic strip Fat Freddy's Cat, a spin-off from the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers ; in the original comic, the quirkafleeg was an obscure ritual in a foreign country, required to be performed upon the sight of dead furry animals.

Rick James ( born James Ambrose Johnson, Jr .; February 1, 1948August 6, 2004 ) was an American singer, songwriter, musician and record producer, best known for being one of the popularizers of funk music in the late 1970s and early 1980s thanks to million-selling hits such as " You and I " ( 1978 ), " Give It to Me Baby " ( 1981 ) and " Super Freak " ( 1981 ), the latter song crossing him over to pop audiences and selling over three million copies, later contributing to the success of rapper MC Hammer's " U Can't Touch This " ( 1990 ), which James sued to be credited for.

" Freak " continues to be used to describe genetic mutations in plants and animals, i. e. " freaks of nature.

Morimoto programmed Mew into the game secretly, as a prank amongst the staff just prior to its release in Japan, intending it to be a Pokémon only Game Freak staff members would know about and be able to obtain.

Everett wrote the song " Beautiful Freak " for a girlfriend, and he jokingly remarks in his memoir, Things The Grandchildren Should Know ( 2008 ) " Perhaps if I hadn't referred to her as a ' freak ' she'd still be my girlfriend ".

" They go on adventures such as going to the hospital which Freak claims has a secret department called the " Bionics Department " which has had his brain cat scanned to be fitted into a bionic body.

Kane gives up on training Max to be his obedient assistant and tries to kill him by strangling him, but Freak arrives just in time and saves Max by squirting Kane with a squirt gun in the eye which he claims is filled with sulfuric acid when in fact, it is filled with soap, vinegar, and curry powder.

For the special endings in The King of Fighters ' 97, three video games journals, Gamest, Famitsu and Neo Geo Freak, had to create a team composed of three characters from the game so that they would be featured in an image after passing the arcade mode.

Kelly has been shooting videos to the new Freak Asylum singles You Better Leave written by US Billboard No1 hit writer Toby Gad and Throwaway Girl which will be Freak Asylum second single.

According to Scott Shaw, the character was originally supposed to be called The Freak, but was renamed to The Geek due to concerns by DC Comics management over the possible drug reference " freak " implied at the time.

Her new book, Passing As Human / Freak Nation: How I Discovered That No One Is Normal will be released in December 2009.

Designed by Game Freak and originally intended to be renamed Spectre for North American audiences, their name is a derivative of the verb " to haunt ", and is both the singular and plural name of the species.

A coalition of the Democratic and Republican candidates during the Mayor's election ( along with mail votes and alleged vote-fixing ) managed to defeat Edwards by 6 votes ( although there were 5 absentee ballots for Edwards, but they did not arrive in time to count ), which Thompson said had confirmed his suspicion that both Aspen and America at large could be more radical than he had imagined, and thus that a " Freak Power " campaign on a local or national scale could work.

The third and final greatest hits release from the band, it proved to be more a definitive collection than the 10-track Greatest Hits collection and the best of / sampler collection, Nothing Safe: Best of the Box, featuring almost all of the band's hits and singles ( with the exception of " Bleed the Freak ", " Down in a Hole " " Fear the Voices " and " Don't Follow ") as well as fan favorites and also two unplugged tracks.

18 Amazing Ways to Freak Out Your Friends will be published by Kids Can Press.

* Freak or Unique-Every week, there would be five people waiting outside the studio, of whom three would be selected to show off a special if freakish talent ( such as juicing an orange with their shoulders, or drinking milk which they then forced out of their tear ducts ).