Talk:Cloud cuckoo land

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Thatcher and Ingram
I just added fact to this:
 * It is commonly thought that Margaret Thatcher famously used this phrase in the 1980s. "Anyone who thinks the ANC will form the government of South Africa is living in cloud cuckoo-land" However, it was actually a misquotation of her spokesman, Bernard Ingram.

Two objections. First, the line is written in quotes as though it is a direct quote, yet web searching reveals those exact words are found on WikiClones only. Second and far more important, I find no cites that Ingram said those words. It's completely consistent with Ingram's position (a position he kept long after Thatcher embraced Mandela), and in 1987 he would have been saying it for Thatcher, but that falls short of verification.  Randall Bart    Talk   21:16, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Suggestion for further research: While it may have been Aristophanes who coined the phrase, I think it's possible that the phrase itself was introduced into 20th Century English by the Germans. Specifically, the German officer corps in World War II regularly referred to Hitler's sometimes tenuous grasp on reality as "wolkenkuckuckscheim." I would suggest that the researcher might discover that the phrase came into popular parlance in the English language with the publication of German war memoirs starting in the late 1940s. Sofa King (talk) 20:11, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

Cloud Cuckoo Land
What about the level in the N64 video game Banjo Tooie? :D I think that at least deserves mention. RandyS0725 (talk) 22:41, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

Lego movie
While I'm a fan of the movie, I don't think the lengthy description of the world fits this article. I'm placing the original below.


 * "Cloud Cuckoo Land" is one of the many realms featured in the 2014 film The Lego Movie. Cloud Cuckoo Land is located above Middle Zealand and is the home of Princess Uni-Kitty. It is described as "a land up in the clouds where there are no rules, no government, no babysitters, no bedtimes, no frowny faces, no bushy mustaches, and no negativity of any kind". Reached by traveling up a rainbow, and home to the sweet and plucky Princess Unikitty, Cloud Cuckoo Land is built from every kind of piece using every type of LEGO imagination.". The Master Builders meet with Vitruvius in order to discuss how to stop Lord Business from unleashing the power of the Kragle on Taco Tuesday. Cloud Cuckoo Land was destroyed when Bad Cop/Good Cop leads the Super Secret Police into raiding it to capture Emmet Brickowski and the Piece of Resistance.

Imran Khan section?
This section is completely politically biased, not to mention unprofessionally written and lacking credible sources. I would go so far as to call it vandalism which has somehow gotten through undetected. The whole section should be removed, as it does not eben pertain to Cloud Cuckoo Land, but serves only to push some anonymous editor's political agenda. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.132.206.182 (talk) 15:29, 27 August 2017 (UTC)

Dsm (talk) 23:50, 11 October 2014 (UTC)

Quotation
I would like to prominently display a quotation from an Queensland conservative politician who engaging in this type of behaviour publicly. I don't mean an example of using the phrase, but publicly demonstrations of this type of fantasy. Katter imagining no homosexuals in his electorate is a perfect example. Another good one is Peter Dutton imagining he has some authority over what song is performed by an artist at a sporting event. There are doubtless, many other. The next best one would be Pauline Hanson, who imagines she can make an assessment on climate change by looking out the windows of any plane. I pick these three examples because they most represent cloud cloud cuckoo land. I will do some more reading about it and see if I can find a better general representative group for this thing as well as the best displays. - Shiftchange (talk) 06:31, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

What about Rommel vs Hitler?
What about Erwin Rommel's quote regarding Hitler's idea of defending occupied France with the Atlantic Wall as "something out of his wolkenkuckucksheim mind" (to paraphrase)? This is the German equivalent of "Cloud cuckoo land", and I had actually assumed it was a German quote, or something Rommel had made up before this. http://militaryhistorynow.com/2014/06/04/the-atlantic-wall-11-amazing-facts-about-the-nazi-defences-at-normandy/ I probably picked it up from reading "The Longest Day" numerous times when I was younger, since it's something that I seem to have had in my head for a long time. AnnaGoFast (talk) 07:33, 21 January 2018 (UTC)