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Back from vacation!

“The Iguana That Ate Chrysler”

Leonard poking fun at the Fifth Avenue Association for sponsoring an extravaganza of the rich and famous for the introduction of a new car (The Chrysler Fifth Avenue) while using zoning laws to have the 100ft iguana removed from the roof of the Lone Start Café (all in 1978)He has some fun with comments like, “St. Patrick would have loved him (the iguana). They were both in the snake business.”…reference to the real St. Patrick or the people who like to be seen at St. Patrick’s on Fifth Avenue?

Here’s the lizard:

There are color pictures available, but looks much more historic in B&W.

New word: omophagous = eater of raw food (“What do you do with an iguana in a restricted neighborhood? It might eat a Plimpton!”)

New learning: Geas is a curse, a death taboo of the ancient Celts.