Cloud Cuckoo Land

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boer_kameel

Still Mildly Glowing
I've just read an interview with Gavin Pretor-Pinney, creator of the Cloud Appreciation Society.
This was featured in our nation's finest weekly magazine, Humo.

He referenced an English child book, about a fantasy land in the clouds - Cloud Cuckoo Land. Of this, the expression "living in Cloud Cuckoo Land" originated, which is said about daydreamers or naive people.

I saw this as location with one of NMA's members, is this your source for that reference?
 
alec just doesn't like living on the ground.

Clouds are awesome, lets start appreciating them!
 
He referenced an English child book, about a fantasy land in the clouds - Cloud Cuckoo Land. Of this, the expression "living in Cloud Cuckoo Land" originated, which is said about daydreamers or naive people.
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O RLY?

Read "The Birds" by Aristophanes for the real source.

And listen to "Like Spinning Plates" by Radiohead:

While you make pretty speeches,
I'm being cut to shreds.
You feed me to the lions,
a delicate balance.

When this just feels like spinning plates,
I'm living in cloud cuckoo land.
And this just feels like spinning plates.
Our bodies floating down the muddy river.

:drunk:
 
boer_kameel said:
Visited wiki?

Well, I learnt something new :-) Nice reference!

Also, Radiohead: :clap:
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No, don't know about Cloud Cuckoo Land via Wiki. I know about it via Peter Holvoet-Hanssen, a Flemish poet, who wrote a cycle of poems entitled "Wolkenkoekoeksoord", which is a nice Dutch translation of Cloud Cuckoo Land. "The Birds" is a nice read as well, by the way.

Also: Radiohead's 7th album is finished and will probably hit the shelves in November. :aiee:
 
Aristophanes. Period. Everyone else is borrowing it.

Read "The Frogs" too. It has a fart joke. A 2500 year old fart joke. Awesome.
 
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