cacotopia

[Jonathan Lighter]

Aristophanes' "Cloud-Cuckoo-Land" sounds so awkward in English that I propose :

  Cuckootopia.

  Just a thought. Sorry.

  JL

Charles Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU> wrote:
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I wonder if anybody except us Texans calls the city "Corpus"?

Remember several years ago when some blasphemous and warmongering administration was going to christen a warship (or maybe a nuculer submarine) "The Corpus Christi"?

--Charlie
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>Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:06:25 -0400
>From: Wilson Gray
>Subject: Re: cacotopia
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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>Get real, Charlie! I can deal with that. What got to me is the fact that, as a fellow Texan, you failed to have my back.
>
>BTW, did you notice that William Salmon is from Corpus?
>
>-Wilson

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