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Friday, 9 March, 2001
1949 - The first all-electric dining car was placed in service--
on the Illinois Central Railroad. Passengers enjoyed all-electric
cooking between Chicago and St. Louis.
1985 - The most requested movie in history, Gone with the Wind,
went on sale in video stores across the US for the first time. The
tape cost buyers 89.95.
***
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance,
nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
-- Aristotle
I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier
than the people who have to wait for them.
(unattributed)
The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the moods
of people, and his tact in dealing with them.
-- Josiah Gilbert Holland
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom
to make mistakes.
-- Gandhi
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
-- Josh Billings
It never occurs to teenagers that someday they will know as little
as their parents.
(unattributed)
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from
the arguments of its opposers
-- William Penn
Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans
which were never reasonable, and often impossible.
-- Edgar Watson Howe
Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, experience tells
you to do, and what your nerves won't let you do.
-- Bruce Crampton
Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a
change.
-- Golnik Eric
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have
lost.
-- Robert H. Schuller
Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
-- Karl Barth
***
Racing pigeons are wearing spangly sequins to protect them from
falcons. The reflective sequins looking like large eyes are fitted
to their wings to stop peregrine falcons from attacking.The Royal
Pigeon Racing Association has adopted the idea after research by
Lancaster University scientists. Falcons kill thousands of the racing
birds each year but there's been a drop in kills since the sequins
were tried out, reports the Daily Record.
***
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has never had a staff photographer.
The tradition goes back to 1889, when the WSJ was first published.
Now that is not to say the WSJ has never run a photograph. Its first
published photo was in 1927 on the occasion of an obituary for the
WSJ's drama critic. In this case, it was a photograph of a painting.
It was not until 1929 that a portrait photo was used. Editors may
call for a photo when they feel the traditional dot drawings (which
we feel are to remind the reader of the drawings of presidents found
on currency) is not appropriate for a story, but this is certainly
not a capricious event.
***
How come Americans use a donkey and an elephant as symbols for
the Democratic and Republican parties?
The donkey started with President Andrew Jackson, a Democrat. He
used the symbol for his party after his opponents in the 1828 presidential
election called him a "jackass". Illustrator Thomas Nast
made Jackson's donkey famous in his political cartoons. Nast himself
came up with the Republican elephant in an 1874 cartoon. The elephant
initially was meant only to represent the strength of the "Republican
Vote," but it soon came to stand for the party as a whole.
***
What do you call Santa's helpers?
Subordinate clauses!
***
Canada-Women on Subs
Ottawa (AP) - Women are now allowed to serve on Canada's submarines.
The Canadian navy made the announcement yesterday -- on International
Women's Day. The move breaks the final barrier to females in Canada's
military.
Vice Admiral Greg Maddison says the decision was made because the
navy's new Victoria-class submarines offer more privacy than the
previous ones. There had been concerns about cramped quarters on
older subs. Maddison also says male and female crew members will
not be segregated on the subs.
Women serve on submarines in only a few countries, including Norway
and Australia -- but not the United States.
***
SI: Swimsuit Facts
(AP) - No, the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition isn't just pictures.
The 222-page tome not only has the babes -- it also has some of
the facts surrounding the photo shoots. In case you forgot to read
the articles, here's some of what you missed. SI reports it took
seven photographers 48 days and 4,400 rolls of film to capture all
those thongs. The location photo crews guzzled more than 100 gallons
coffee during the early morning shoots. They also had to rub 20
bottles of body oil on the 19 supermodels.
***
ATLANTA (AP) - Just one in four U.S. adults exercised enough in
the 1990s, the government said Thursday.
Only 25.4 percent of adults met government recommendations for
physical activity in 1998 - virtually unchanged from the beginning
of the decade, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
Almost 30 percent reported no physical activity at all.
The CDC recommends a half-hour of moderate exercise, like walking,
five times a week, or 20 minutes of vigorous exercise, such as running,
three times a week.
Analysts blame high-stress jobs coupled with lifestyle amenities
that surfaced in the 1990s - from hundreds of cable channels to
a multiplicity of fast-food joints - for making Americans lazier
in their free time.
``People are spending more time watching TV,'' CDC statistician
Sandra Ham said. ``For transportation, they get in their cars rather
than walking or riding bicycles.''
The findings are based on random telephone surveys conducted by
health officials in 43 states and the District of Columbia between
1990 and 1998.
The CDC warned that the numbers could be off in both directions
- made higher by people who exaggerated their physical activity
and made lower by people who did not remember all their exercise
over a month.
Inactivity can lead to obesity, which is closely tied to diabetes.
Diabetes kills 180,000 Americans a year, and the disease is rising
sharply.
Part of the problem is that Americans see exercise as an inconvenience,
Ham said. But the 30-minute requirement can be broken into chunks
as small as 10 minutes, with everyday activities like gardening
counting as exercise.
``It doesn't have to be hard work,'' Ham said. ``A lot of people
don't realize that modern lifestyle activities - being physically
active in general rather than setting aside time - are really what's
important.''
Also Thursday, the government said fewer than half of Americans
age 50 and older are receiving proper screening for colorectal cancer,
which kills more than 50,000 people each year.
On the Net: CDC: http://www.cdc.gov
Wednesday, March 7, 2001
MONOPOLY DAY
It was on this day in 1933 that Charles Darrow created the game
we know as Monopoly. Or was it?
Maybe Lizzie J. Magie's The Landlord's Game, patented on January
5, 1904, was the real monopoly game. Or was it? Lizzie's game was
very similar to Monopoly, except she, a Quaker from Virginia, created
it as a political comment to promote a single land-ownership tax.
She shared it with other Quakers and proponents of the tax measure.
Families copied the game, adding their own favorite street names
and changing the rules as they pleased. The name of the game changed
as the rules changed.
A Reading, Pennsylvania college student, Dan Layman, played the
version his friends called Monopoly in the late 1920s. Once out
of college, and back home in Indianapolis, he produced the game
under the name, Finance. His dorm-mate, Louis Thun, copyrighted
several rules that the two had written. Was Layman's the real Monopoly
game?
Or was it Ruth Hoskins and friends, Quakers who lived in Atlantic
City, who made the Monopoly game we still play? Ruth learned how
to play the game from a friend of Layman's in Indianapolis. She
then moved to Atlantic City and shared it with other friends. In
1930, they made a version complete with Atlantic City street names
like Boardwalk, Park Place, Virginia and Pennsylvania Avenues; even
including Marven Gardens, a residential section at the edge of Margate
City, a suburb of Atlantic City.
Charles Darrow, an inventor of sorts, first saw and played the game
in 1931, when he and his wife were introduced to Monopoly by mutual
friends of Ruth Hoskins. The Darrows, who lived in Germantown, Pennsylvania,
were penniless. The Depression had left them destitute. Fascinated
with the game, Darrow made some modifications, misspelled Marven
Gardens as Marvin Gardens, added copyrighted artwork and produced
games which he then began to sell on this day in 1933.
The popularity of the game was instant. Darrow could not keep up
with the demand. He eventually sold his 'rights' to Parker Brothers
who initially turned Darrow away, saying that his game had "52
fundamental errors." The 50-year-old company eventually agreed
to give Darrow royalties on every Monopoly game sold, on the condition
that they could write "short version" game rules. Ultimately,
Darrow became a millionaire at age 46.
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1908 - Grab hold of your bonnets for this one, ladies. It was on
this day that Cincinnati's mayor, Mark Breith stood before the city
council and announced "Women are not physically fit to operate
automobiles."
***
There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.
-- Charles M. Schulz
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared
to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In a society that judges self-worth on productivity, it's no wonder
we fall prey to the misconception that the more we do, the more
we're worth.
--Ellen Sue Stern
Too many people, too many demands, too much to do; competent, busy,
hurrying people - it just isn't living at all.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The only good is knowledge and the only evil ignorance.
-- Socrates
Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin
through their love of virtue
-- Juvenal
The most dangerous creation of any society is that man who has
nothing to lose.
-- James Baldwin
Sometimes, I think that musicians don't like music at all. Apart
from me and Alfred Brendel, I hardly see any of them at concerts
-- Mitsuko Uchida, from an article in The Independent
Singers are just cannon fodder in the midst of often fairly bloody
battles. You often feel like walking out, but you can't.
-- Thomas Allen, from an article in The Observer
***
California Unveils 'Peanuts' Tribute Sculpture
SANTA ROSA, CA (AP) - The city that ``Peanuts'' creator Charles
Schulz called home is paying tribute to the late cartoonist.
A bronze ``Peanuts'' sculpture of a smiling Charlie Brown with his
arm around
Snoopy was unveiled this weekend.
The 4-foot sculpture was a $270,000 project commissioned by the
city of Santa Rosa and Sonoma County. Schulz had drawn the comic
strip for 50 years. Schulz died at his Santa Rosa home of complications
of cancer on Feb. 12, 2000, the day before his farewell ``Peanuts''
cartoon was published. He was 77.
``I think everyone who will see the sculpture will feel happy,''
said the cartoonist's widow, Jean Schulz. Stan Pawlowski, a Long
Beach artist and friend of Schulz, created the sculpture. He was
licensed nearly a decade ago to sculpt ``Peanuts'' characters.
***
What is a Shogun?
The shoguns were the de facto rulers of Japan from 1192 to 1867.
Originally military commanders, they exercised real power, while
the emperor retained formal sovereignty. The name is an abbreviation
of sei-i-tai-shogun, meaning "barbarian-quelling generalisimo"
***
New York (AP) - A new handy gadget could make calling cards obsolete.
A New York woman invented the disposable cell phone. The inexpensive
paper phone only dials out. It can be used up to 60 minutes and
then thrown away.
"I was driving in my car and kept losing the signal while I
was on the phone, which I shouldn't be all the time. But I'm on
the phone like everybody else and I kept losing the cell site. And
I wanted to throw my phone out the window. It just popped into my
head -- disposable cell phone," said Cliffside Park, N.J.,
resident Randi Altschul, who invented the disposable cell phone.
Four years after her light bulb idea, Altschul made it a reality.
It is the size of a credit card and, except for the circuitry, made
of paper. Altschul said that it is perfect for people who are always
losing things. The disposable phones are about $10.
***
More than 50 people responded to an invitation to a casting call
for a Robert DeNiro movie being shot in Boston. The only problem
was, the invitations were sent by police. To people with outstanding
arrest warrants. One woman complained she "took a day off from
work" to meet DeNiro. She was led away in handcuffs instead.
"It's so nice to scam people who are scammers," one detective
said. The casting call, sent to 3,800 fugitives, offered more than
$200 for two hours of work as extras, plus the chance of "becoming
famous." (UPI)
***
Hatfield-McCoy
Pikeville, KY (AP) - Appalachia's most famous feuding families
now settle their differences with softball and tug-of-war. The Hatfields
lost both events to the McCoys at last year's inaugural reunion
in Pikeville, Kentucky.
Tourism promoters in Kentucky and West Virginia say the reunions,
which are expected to become annual affairs, will pay huge financial
dividends from people coming to see the descendants square off in
friendly competitions. Last year, 3,500 people showed up -- filling
every hotel within 30 miles.
This year's reunion is set for the weekend of June 8-10.
The feud between the McCoys of Kentucky and the Hatfields of West
Virginia is believed to have stemmed from a dispute over a pig and
escalated in a battle over timber rights. By 1888, at least 12 lives
were lost.
***
IS THIS GUY NUTS?
An Australian ex-commando is planning a record-breaking sky dive
-- FROM SPACE.
From a special high-altitude helium balloon, Rodd Millner will parachute
130,000 feet back to Earth -- free-falling from the vacuum of space
and through the frigid air of Earth's upper atmosphere before landing
back on Terra Firma.
The feat is scheduled for March 2002, starting from just outside
Alice Springs, Australia. The "Space Jump" -- as it's
being called -- will be filmed on 70mm film and High Definition
videotape to create a giant format film. It'll take Millner approximately
2 1/2 hours to ascend to 130,000 feet in his special balloon before
taking less than 10 minutes to parachute to Earth.
Wearing a special high-tech suit, Millner hopes to become the first
man to break the sound barrier unaided, the highest skydiver, the
longest free-faller -- and the highest balloonist ever to live.
Tuesday, March 6, 2001
REMEMBER THE ALAMO DAY
It was on this day in 1836, the last of a thirteen-day siege, that
Mexico's
dictator, Santa Anna and his thousand-man army defeated a little
band of
Texas volunteers. The last of these 189 brave men (who included
Davy
Crockett) died on March 6, holed up in the Alamo.
Their fight for Texas' liberty did not go unnoticed. 46 days later,
with the
battle cry, "Remember the Alamo," General Sam Houston
and his Texans
captured Santa Anna and finished the job started at the Alamo. Texas
gained
its independence.
***
1808 - The first college orchestra was founded -- at Harvard University
in Cambridge, MA.
1981 - Walter Cronkite, the dean of American television newscasters,
said "And that's the way it is" for the final time, as
he closed the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite. An audience
estimated at 17,000,000 viewers saw 'the most trusted man in America'
sign-off. Cronkite retired after more than 30 years in broadcasting.
He was replaced by Dan Rather at the anchor desk.
1982 - The most points scored by two teams in the National Basketball
Association made history. San Antonio beat Milwaukee 171-166 in
three overtime periods to set the mark.
1985 - Yul Brynner played his famous role as the king in The King
and I in his 4,500th performance in the musical. The actor, age
64, opened the successful production on Broadway in 1951.
***
If the guy in front of you can't drive, blowing your horn isn't
likely to teach him how.
(unattributed)
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the
value of life.
-- Charles Darwin
Learn by other's mistakes because you do not live long enough to
make them all yourself.
(anonymous)
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget;
the wise forgive but do not forget.
-- Thomas Szasz
Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying,
'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working
with people.
-- Mary Kay
It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes,
than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.
-- Vincent van Gogh
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
-- Ethel Barrymore
The taxpayer -- that's someone who works for the federal government
but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.
-- Ronald Reagan
Some minds are like concrete, thoroughly mixed up and permanently
set.
(unattributed)
The true male never yet walked
Who liked to listen when his mate talked.
-- Anna Wickham
Errol Flynn died on a 70-foot boat with a 17-year-old girl. Walter
has always wanted to go that way, but he's going to have to settle
for a 17-footer with a 70-year-old.
-- Betty Cronkite, of her husband Walter
***
If you have kids in school, remember that it's about more than
just facts and skills:
"The object of education is to prepare the young to educate
themselves throughout their lives."
--Robert Maynard Hutchins
"Education is what survives when what has been learnt has
been forgotten."
--B. F. Skinner
"In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra."
--Fran Lebowitz
***
Alzheimer's-Hobbies
Washington (AP) - A study says adults with hobbies that exercise
their brains are two-and-a-half times less likely to develop Alzheimer's
disease. The study also says leisure limited to TV watching may
increase the risk.
The survey looked at people in their 70s. It says those who regularly
participated in intellectually challenging hobbies in their younger
adult years tended to be protected. These activities included reading,
jigsaw puzzles and chess.
As for the TV, a researcher says the finding supports other studies
showing that brain power unused is brain power lost. The researcher
is at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. The study
is in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
***
Hi/Lo Beam
Detroit (AP) - An automotive supplier has unveiled "smarter"
headlights that know when to switch to high-beams and when to switch
back. Gentex says it could make being blinded by other drivers just
a dim memory.
The company says its SmartBeam system uses a tiny, computer chip-driven
camera that's mounted in a car's rear-view mirror. The technology
automatically activates or dims the brights, depending on the amount
of light that the camera picks up in front of the vehicle. Gentex
executive vice-president Kenneth La Grand says increased use of
high-beams could make nighttime driving safer for those in and out
of vehicles.
SmartBeam is still being refined. But Ford's Lincoln-Mercury division
expects to make it available on Lincoln vehicles starting in the
2004 model year.
***
Are a jackass and a donkey the same thing?
Yes, if you're talking about animals. An ass, a donkey, and a burro
are all names for the same creature--an equine mammal smaller than
a horse and having long ears. "Jackass" or "jack"
is used when you are referring to a male ass. The female ass is
called a "jennet" or "jenny." Burro is a name
Spanish in origin and more commonly refers, at least in the US,
to the smaller sized asses common to Mexico.
What, then, is a mule?
A mule is the domesticated, hybrid offspring of a mare (female
horse) and a jackass (male donkey). The offspring of a male horse
(stallion) and a female ass (jenny) is called a "hinny".
Mules will often grow to a size larger than either parent, and they
live longer than the horse. However, because it is a hybrid, the
mule is sterile and cannot reproduce. There have been extremely
rare reports of a few female mules having produced young after they
were bred to male asses or to stallions. The first mules in North
America are thought to have been bred by George Washington.
***
Como Zoo in St. Paul Minnesota has raised $4,800 by auctioning
paintings done by Amanda, the Orangutan, whose painting technique
consists of dipping the brush into the paint, rubbing it once on
the paper, and then sucking off the remaining paint from the brush.
400 people came to bid on 22 originals with the highest bid for
a picture being $360.
But Amanda has a ways to go to be number one. Ruby, an elephant
at the Phoenix zoo fetched $3,000 for one of her paintings. Dolphin
originals at the Clearwater, Florida Marine Science Center in 1992
fetched as much as $175 per painting.
***
Have you heard these in your Dilbert cubicles?
"As of tomorrow, employees will only be able to access the
building using individual security cards. Pictures will be taken
next Wednesday and employees will receive their cards in two weeks."
(Microsoft)
"What I need is a list of specific unknown problems we will
encounter." (Lykes Lines Shipping)
"This project is so important, we can't let things that are
more important interfere with it." (UPS)
"Doing it right is no excuse for not meeting the schedule"
(3M)
***
When you're hot, you're hot. And if you're a dog, that means winding
up at the top on the American Kennel Club's annual ranking of the
registered breeds that have been in the most demand.
The AKC's roster for the year 2000 is out, and it shows that two
large breeds - labradors followed by golden retrievers - continued
to be the country's most popular dogs. Several of the smaller guys
held their own in the Top 10, and one top breed - the formidable
rottweiler - suffered a sharp drop in popularity.
Overall, according to the AKC, Americans registered 1,175,473 purebred
dogs last year, up five percent when compared to 1999. Labs, which
are large, active but easy-going dogs, dominated the field of 148
AKC breeds with 172,841 registered puppies - almost 15 percent of
all the dogs that were registered.
AKC Top 10 in 2000
Labrador retrievers. 172,841 registrations, up 12 percent
Golden retrievers. 66,300 registrations, up 6 percent
German shepherds. 57,660 registrations, up 1 percent
Dachshunds. 54,773 registrations, up 8 percent
Beagles. 52,026 registrations, up 6 percent
Poodles. 45,868 registrations, up 1 percent
Yorkshire terriers. 43,868 registrations, up 7 percent
Chihuahuas. 43,096 registrations, up 17 percent
Boxers. 38,803 registrations, up 11 percent
Shih Tzus. 37,599, up 9 percent
Rottweilers, pomeranians, miniature schnauzers, cocker spaniels
and pugs filled out the ranks of the top 15 dogs, with rottweilers
representing the only top breed to suffer a significant drop in
popularity. It fell 11 percent between 1999 and 2000.
Monday, March 5, 2001
ANNIE OAKLEY DAY
Just five feet tall, one wouldn't expect Phoebe Anne Oakley Mozee
to be able to use a rifle, a pistol or a shotgun. Yet, the diminutive
Annie Oakley -- as she was better known -- found out, at the age
of nine, that she was a dead shot. Born in a log cabin in Patterson
Township, Ohio, Annie starred in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show for
seventeen years equally adept at hitting targets with any of the
three weapons.
On this day in particular, in 1922, Annie broke all existing records
for women's trap shooting. She smashed 98 out of 100 clay targets
thrown at 16 yards while at a match at the Pinehurst Gun Club in
North Carolina. She hit the first fifty, missed the 51st, then the
67th.
This was a record-breaker, true; but Annie Oakley was well-known
throughout the United States and Europe for her expert shooting
ability. In one day, 'Little Sure Shot' took a .22 rifle and hit
4,772 glass balls out of 5,000 tossed in the air. She could hit
a playing card from 90 feet (the thin side facing her), puncturing
it at least five times before it hit the ground. It was this display
that named free tickets with holes punched in them, Annie Oakleys.
In 1935, Phoebe Mozee was immortalized on film in Annie Get Your
Gun, which was later made into a musical for the stage. In 1985,
another film, Annie Oakley, was made for TV. It included silent-film
footage of the record-breaking sharp-shooter, taken by Thomas Edison.
***
1750 - The first Shakespearean play in America was presented at
the Nassau Street Theatre in New York City. The play enjoyed by
the audience was the famous King Richard III.
1931 - "Without a Song" was recorded by Lawrence Tibbett
for Victor Records. This wonderful melody came from the film, The
Southerner and has been a hit for many, including Willie Nelson,
Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett.
***
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable
uncertainty, not knowing what comes next.
-- Ursula K. Leguin
What you were yesterday is fixed for always, making its mark on
what you are today, what you will be tomorrow.
-- Helen Eustis
The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post.
-- L. Thomas Holdcroft
All of us are watchers -- of television, of time clocks, of traffic
on the freeway -- but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not
many are seeing.
-- Peter M. Leschak
Often the best thing about not saying anything is that it can't
be repeated.
-- Suzan Wiener
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
-- Mark Twain
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes.
Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams
The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
-- H. G. Wells
You can never plan the future by the past.
-- Edmund Burke
The best time to make friends is before you need them.
-- Ethel Barrymore
There's no labor a man can do that's undignified, if he does it
right.
-- Bill Cosby
True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a
plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can
overcome.
-- Walter Anderson
No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great
theatre of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can
make a difference.
-- Liz Carpenter
***
Who are Doleful, Scrappy, Snappy, Crabby, Shifty, and
Biggy-Wiggy?
Those are names considered and rejected for the seven dwarves in
Walt Disney's 1937 animated classic "Snow White and the Seven
Dwarves." The dwarves that made the cut, of course, were Bashful,
Sleepy, Sneezy, Dopey, Grumpy, Happy, and Doc.
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What do the letters in "EPCOT" stand for?
Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. Walt Disney envisioned
EPCOT as an enclosed and regulated community where people would
live and work. The idea was to enclose the whole community within
a dome so it could be entirely controlled and all the bad things
in society, like crime and grime, could be kept out. Instead, EPCOT
became a popular exhibit combining technology with international
cultures.
---
How did Disney animation artists poke fun at a rival theme park
in the film "Beauty and the Beast"?
In the 1991 film "Beauty and the Beast," Belle's father
encounters a fork in the road, with one road sign indicating the
path leads to "Anaheim," while the darker, more sinister
looking path is supposed to lead to "Valencia." Anaheim,
of course, is the site of Disneyland, while Valencia is the home
of the rival Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park.
***
Why do we call unrealistic ideas pipe dreams?
To understand the origins of the expression, imagine that in the
1960s a similar phrase likened unrealistic ideas to the kind of
distorted thinking engendered by using LSD. The drug was often supplied
on a sugar cube, so unrealistic ideas could have been called "sugar
cube fantasies."
The 19th century equivalent of LSD was the hallucinogenic drug opium,
imported into Europe from Asia. It was widely used in certain literary
circles in Britain. Opium was smoked in a pipe and once under the
influence, people had strange visions. But they were only pipe dreams.
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