On this day a group of scientists, businessmen, and newspapermen sat down to a new year’s eve dinner inside a life-size iguanodon model. It was one of the first full-size reconstructions of a dinosaur ever made, and the dinner was a publicity stunt organised by the Crystal Palace Company. The Company had commissioned the artist, Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, to construct 33 full-size concrete dinosaur models in order to attract the general public to the reopening of the Crystal Palace exhibition complex. The guests that evening enjoyed seven lavish courses, followed by French pastries, jellies, puddings, fresh fruit, and nuts for dessert.
What a table of tramps… How can you think of having a New Year’s Eve dinner without tortellini and wasabi almonds? Not to mention the idea of walking dinosaurs inside a crystal shop… And they were supposed to be a group of scientists, businessmen, and newspapermen… They were a bunch of idiots!
😂 Ah, but can you be sure that there weren’t any tortellini in those “seven lavish courses” and wasabi almonds in those “nuts for dessert”?
Of course I’m sure of it: as my grandfather used to say, “You cannot but take the name of tortellini and wasabi almonds in vain.”
Such depths of wisdom!