cacotopia

[Jonathan Lighter]

There are cornucopias of topias, including both the HOPE-A-TOPIA and the MOPE-A-TOPIA. Skiiers yearn for SLOPE-A-TOPIA, teenagers for GROPE-A-TOPIA, and entomologists for CECROPIA-TOPIA.

  And Muhammad Ali used to turn the prize ring into

  A ROPE-A-DOPE-A-TOPIA.

  JL

Charles Doyle <cdoyle at UGA.EDU> wrote:
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Subject: Re: cacotopia
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And a place that gets no respect is a DISTOPIA?

--Charlie
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---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 07:30:26 -0700
>From: Jonathan Lighter
>Subject: Re: cacotopia
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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>
>Aristophanes' "Cloud-Cuckoo-Land" sounds so awkward in English that I propose :
>
> Cuckootopia.
>
> Just a thought. Sorry.
>
> JL
>

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