Giacomo the Stripper
English translation: Play on the word "stripper"
| 17:15 Nov 24, 2008 |
| English language (monolingual) [PRO] Art/Literary - Journalism / Article about Italy | |||||||
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| giacomo the stripper Jack the Ripper Explanation: Babylon English-English Jack the Ripper n. serial murderer that terrorized London in the 1800's Jack the Ripper Jack the Ripper is an alias given to an unidentified serial killer active in the largely impoverished Whitechapel area and adjacent districts of London, England in the latter half of 1888. The name is taken from a letter to the Central News Agency by someone claiming to be the murderer, published at the time of the killings. The legends surrounding the Ripper murders have become a combination of genuine historical research, conspiracy theory and folklore. The lack of a confirmed identity for the killer has allowed Ripperologists — the term used within the field for the authors, historians and amateur detectives who study the case — to accuse a wide variety of individuals of being the Ripper. Newspapers, whose circulation had been growing during this era, bestowed widespread and enduring notoriety on the killer owing to the savagery of the attacks and the failure of the police in their attempts to capture the Ripper, sometimes missing the murderer at his crime scenes by mere minutes. Reference: http://www.babylon.com |
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| giacomo the stripper ironic Explanation: I think the article is being sarcastic/ironic. Giacomo is a stereotypical Italian name, so I think the idea the article is trying to convey is that random Italian strippers are very common in a country which is supposed to be synonymous with class. |
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peer agreement (net): +2| giacomo the stripper Play on the word "stripper" Explanation: Yes, it has echoes of "Jack the RIpper", and also of the meaning of stripper as in strip clubs etc, but the "stripping" here is the removal of the stucco - decorative plaster - from walls to take them back to the more "modern" bare brick. (You can "strip" paint etc. with liquid "paint stripper") - i.e. Giacomo is perpetrating "violence" on historical decoration on Italian buildings, as Jak the Ripper perpetrated vilence perhaps, to make the buildings more acceptable to tourists and thus robbing them of their charm and Italian character. HTH -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 38 mins (2008-11-24 17:53:46 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- And, as Clare-Louise points out, Giacomo is a common Italian name, like "Bob the BUilder" or "Pete the Plumber"! Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stucco |
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