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Impossible to deal with pain after tripping out (7)

Thanks to all the setters striving for that ideal clue.

It would be interesting to discover how "Utopia" became synonymous with a "perfect place" given that the society Thomas More described was basically the Soviet Union (although perhaps better managed) with slavery added in. Seems like the slaves would have found it pretty dystopian. Wikipedia suggests that over time utopia ("no place") became confused with eutopia ("good place"). So it goes.


To the clues: my shortlist consists of:
mattrom 7 for the nice sound-alike/charade
mathprof 8 for the nice anagram/charade
mathprof 13 - I like "first note" for UT
jono 14 for the nice "reverse in a container"
paulh 19 for the subtractive anagram and lovely yet depressing surface
aristo 20 - I liked DOH = UT + myOPIA

In the end it came down to paulh 19 vs. aristo 20, and the wordplay in aristo's clue was just too good to resist:

Doh! Short-sightedness not my idea of perfection (6)

Congrats aristo and thanks to all for playing.

Prizes:

Highbrow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD3pUDIAoBY

In honor of the winning clue, even-higher-brow:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnaeIAEp2pU

Congrats, Aristophanes. You're on a winning streak. Thanks for hosting , Buddy, and for the short-listing.

Good clue, Aristo, well done. Thanks, Buddy, for the challenge and the short-listing. Interesting clip about the settlements.

Congrats aristo - nice clue. Thanks buddy. I'll watch the clips tomorrow.

Well done, aristo, and thanks for hosting and the mention, buddy. i am happier with my silver than most of the England footballers at the Euros presentation. They pointedly removed them as soon as the UEFA President had hung them round their necks. Impolite, I thought.

Congrats Aristo, very nice clue. Ut was new to me, so I learned something! Cheers for the mention Buddy and thanks for hosting and providing an interesting challenge

Congrts Aristo and cheers Buddy! Can someone explain "d'oh" meaning "UT"? Unless it's a reflection of something in Utah...

UT="A syllable representing the first note of the scale, now generally superseded by doh"

Whoa! Another happy surprise. Thanks so much, buddy et al.
So Marx was inspired by a disastrous failure. Who would have imagined? Fruitlands isn’t far from here. A beautiful place, now open as a museum. Louisa May Alcott’s family lived there for a while.
Hope to see all of you next week!