Palaeontological Fads

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What determines current tastes? Perhaps nothing more than chance.

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	Palaeontological Fads
1 – 3	Newspapers luridly depict the monsters uncovered in the mud near the Stolen River.
4	Newspapers print headlines such as 'Lyme Regis: Genuine Surface Town or Hoax?'
5 – 9	Newspapers report unusual bones washing up near the Docks.
10 – 14	Newspapers report on an influx of bones from further up-river.
15 – 19	Newspapers report an astonishing find near Wolfstack.
20 – 24	Newspapers carry articles such as 'Let the Behemoths be Reborn!' and 'Restore Ancient Life!'
25 – 29	Rubbery Men are flocking to view skeletons on display.
30 – 34	Someone has traced an outline of helical bones on the statue of a former Lord Mayor. Implying the former Mayor was of Rubbery extraction?
35 – 39	Rubbery Men are seen carting piles of thigh-bones around London.
40 – 44	There is a brief fad for hats trimmed with fossilised birds.
45 – 46	Fashion introduces ballgowns with dinosaur-tail trains in scale-covered fabrics.
47 – 49	Every Salon in town is booking Palaeontologists to speak.
50 – 59	Learned treatises on palaeozoology are being sold on every corner.
60 – 69	Monthly serials tell the story of the Palaeolithic Frog-Man.
70 – 74	The Constabulary have put up posters seeking a wanted bone-thief.
75 – 79	A lurid popular novel describes the activities of a Forensic Palaeontologist who sometimes assists the Law.
80 – 84	The devout circulate pamphlets advising against too much interest in the bones of the Ancient World.
85 – 89	Sermons in Church preach against trying to bring back extinct creatures.
90 – 94	Even small children are wild for antique creatures.
95 – 100	An Urchin goes around town offering genuine coprolites for sale.