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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread La-la land #193137 09/17/2010 12:40 PM Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 3 loisart stranger loisart stranger Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 3 I always thought that la-la land referred to Shangri-La that fabled utopia of fiction and film, but I guess that there is a link through filmdom. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: La-la land loisart #193145 09/18/2010 9:03 PM Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague BranShea Carpal Tunnel BranShea Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague Welcome. It makes me think of la-di-da land. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: La-la land loisart #193157 09/20/2010 3:10 PM Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 2 Seoirse stranger Seoirse stranger Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 2 Yes, how is it that this week's theme never took us to Shangri-la or [incredibly] to the grandmother of them all -- Utopia? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: La-la land Seoirse #193158 09/20/2010 4:27 PM Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,971 Likes: 3 Land of the Flat Water LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,971 Likes: 3 Land of the Flat Water I was wondering the same thing myself, thanks for bringing it to the forefront. Welcome ----please, draw me a sheep---- Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: La-la land loisart #193159 09/20/2010 4:27 PM Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,971 Likes: 3 Land of the Flat Water LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,971 Likes: 3 Land of the Flat Water Originally Posted By: loisart I always thought that la-la land referred to Shangri-La that fabled utopia of fiction and film, but I guess that there is a link through filmdom. Welcome as well ----please, draw me a sheep---- Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: La-la land Seoirse #193160 09/20/2010 5:27 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass Originally Posted By: Seoirse Yes, how is it that this week's theme never took us to Shangri-la or [incredibly] to the grandmother of them all -- Utopia? perhaps this is why.. from the week of May 10, 2010: This week's words utopia cockaigne shangri-la Garden of Eden Land of Oz -joe (obviousizing the facticity) friday Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: La-la land Seoirse #193161 09/20/2010 7:32 PM Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague BranShea Carpal Tunnel BranShea Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague See, we already had the old Utopias. Now that we have this dubble list would there be still some paradises we overlooked? Luilekkerland? ( lazy-goodies-land )That was our childhood paradise. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: La-la land BranShea #193163 09/20/2010 9:06 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass "Finding shapes in clouds is an old endeavor. There's even a word for it: nephelococcygia, literally cloud cuckooland, from the Aristophanes play The Birds. Thoreau practiced it, describing a sunset in which he saw a "phantom city." About a hundred years later cartoonist Charles Schulz created a Peanuts comic strip in which Linus gazed at the clouds and spied the outline of British Honduras, the profile of artist Thomas Eakins, and a group of forms reminding him of the biblical stoning of Stephen. 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