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Giacomo the Stripper
This is the nation that invented nearly everything civilised, from the sonnet to Nutella, yet ***Giacomo the Stripper*** rampages through the countryside tearing off baroque stucco to reveal banal brick, as the tourists expect it, and no one can go to La Scala because some of the finest musicians in the world are still being paid in panini.
Perhaps it's elementary, but I don't get it. Can anybody help me understand who Giacomo the Stripper is?
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| 3 +2 | Play on the word "stripper" |
John Bowden
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| 5 | Jack the Ripper |
Patricia Fierro, M. Sc.
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| 5 | ironic |
Clare-Louise Smith (X)
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Non-PRO (1): Patricia Fierro, M. Sc.
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Play on the word "stripper"
HTH
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Note added at 38 mins (2008-11-24 17:53:46 GMT)
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And, as Clare-Louise points out, Giacomo is a common Italian name, like "Bob the BUilder" or "Pete the Plumber"!
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Jack the Ripper
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.
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