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Oct. 24th, 2007 12:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
badstarI really really really really want to live in a house with a big, sprawling live oak tree in the back yard someday.
Though, finding such a property is probably just another one of my pipe dreams. Still, it's a very nice pipe dream.
Where on earth did the phrase "pipe dream" come from????
Edit: oh wait...here's what wikipedia says:
A pipe dream is a fantastic hope or plan that is generally regarded as being nearly impossible to achieve. The term derives from the opium pipe, and dates to the late nineteenth century when opium smoking was common in the United States. More specifically, the term derives from the euphoric optimism that is one of the effects of smoking high quality opium. Depending on how much opium is smoked, intoxication may last from eight to twelve hours. During this time smokers go through a period of euphoria followed by a more relaxed state of contentment and well being. Beginning in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, popular literature and music began using the term "pipe dream" to describe any idea or plan whose probable outcome would never reach initial expectations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe_dream
But anyway...who wouldn't want this in their back yard?
Though, finding such a property is probably just another one of my pipe dreams. Still, it's a very nice pipe dream.
Where on earth did the phrase "pipe dream" come from????
Edit: oh wait...here's what wikipedia says:
A pipe dream is a fantastic hope or plan that is generally regarded as being nearly impossible to achieve. The term derives from the opium pipe, and dates to the late nineteenth century when opium smoking was common in the United States. More specifically, the term derives from the euphoric optimism that is one of the effects of smoking high quality opium. Depending on how much opium is smoked, intoxication may last from eight to twelve hours. During this time smokers go through a period of euphoria followed by a more relaxed state of contentment and well being. Beginning in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, popular literature and music began using the term "pipe dream" to describe any idea or plan whose probable outcome would never reach initial expectations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe_dream
But anyway...who wouldn't want this in their back yard?
