What is "pipe dream"

1870; the sort of improbable fantasy one has while smoking opium; from pipe (n.1) + dream (n.). Old English pipdream meant "piping."

n. (context idiomatic English) A plan, desire, or idea that will not likely work; a near impossibility.

n. a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe); "I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe" [syn: dream]

Pipe Dream is the bi-weekly student newspaper of Binghamton University in Vestal, N.Y. Printed as a tabloid until Spring 2012, Pipe Dream now prints as a broadsheet paper with full color front and back pages.

Pipe Dream is one of the few student newspapers in the country that is and always has been entirely student-run, without the supervision or assistance of an advisor. Though there is no journalism school at Binghamton University, Pipe Dream was named in 2010 as one of the nation's top college newspapers by the Princeton Review.

Pipe Dream is the seventh musical by the team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II; it premiered on Broadway on November 30, 1955. The work is based on John Steinbeck's short novel Sweet Thursday—Steinbeck wrote the novel, a sequel to Cannery Row, in the hope of having it adapted into a musical. Set in Monterey, California, the musical tells the story of the romance between Doc, a marine biologist, and Suzy, who in the novel is a prostitute; her profession is only alluded to in the stage work. Pipe Dream was a flop and a financial disaster for Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Broadway producers Cy Feuer and Ernie Martin held the rights to Sweet Thursday and wanted Frank Loesser to compose a musical based on it. When Loesser proved unavailable, Feuer and Martin succeeded in interesting Rodgers and Hammerstein in the project. As Hammerstein adapted Sweet Thursday, he and Rodgers had concerns about featuring a prostitute as female lead and setting part of the musical in a bordello. They signed operatic diva Helen Traubel to play Fauna, the house madam.

As the show progressed through tryouts, Hammerstein repeatedly revised it, obscuring Suzy's profession and the nature of Fauna's house. Pipe Dream met with poor reviews, and rapidly closed once it exhausted its advance sale. It had no national tour or London production, and has rarely been presented since. No movie version of the show was made; the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization (which licenses their works) once hoped for a film version featuring the Muppets with Fauna played by Miss Piggy.

Pipe dream may refer to:

Pipe Dream is a 2002 romantic comedy film, starring Mary-Louise Parker and Martin Donovan. The film was directed by John C. Walsh, who previously wrote and directed the film Ed's Next Move.

Pipe Dream is a television program on the American cable channel NBC Golf Channel. It follows the story of Mark Burk, a homeless golfer who is trying to get his life on back on track. The story and original program is a documentary reality series in 10 episodes which tell Burk's story.

As Golf Channel tells this complicated story of a man who lived in a Pipe, which also came with a back story that was told buy "National Enquirer" Magazine 2009, i.e. Headlines reading, "SHE'S LYING ABOUT BEATING." Then later again in "Page Six NY," another celebrity tabloid therein claiming that "Burk is guilty ." Referring to former Supermodel Beverly Johnson regarding her "allegation" of domestic violence, the National Enquirer magazine went deeper into story and discovered the involvement of actor Christopher Noth of "Law n Order " "Sex in The City" and CBS "Good Wife." Noth was actually subpoenaed to testify in Burk's defense. Celebrity private detective Dano Hanks who worked for Johnson declared under oath that Noth never stalked her. That was a fabrication. Chris Noth was written off the television series "Law n Order" based on Johnson's 1995 claims. In 2008. Beverly Johnson under court records, entered photographs under oath, in a trial proceeding of puroprted injuries. Burk claimed photos were forged/ doctored. Those photos were subpoenaed by defendant Burk but were then destroyed immediately in the courthouse by accuser Beverly Johnson (affidavit) & Richard Houghton, Esq. Palm Desert CA. Both Johnson & Houghton 'wrote sworn statements'to these facts. Destroying evidence is a crime 133-5 PC. Charges of the destruction of evidence were never brought against Johnson by the Office of District Attorney County of Riverside.