Anyone who forecast such news two years ago would have been consigned to the funny farm.
The wonder is that none of these people have yet been carted off to the funny farm.
British Dictionary definitions for funny farm
funny farm
noun
1.
(facetious) a mental institution
Slang definitions & phrases for funny farm
funny farm
noun phrase
A mental hospital, rest home for alcoholics, etc; laughing academy: Who put me in your private funny house?/ They must all have died in flop-houses or on state funny-farms(1963+)