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Waiter delivers a shovel of spaghetti [code], client happy.


Yeah I get that much (Sorry should have said so) I am trying to understand the real-life context.


So the image is actually a link, but the page 404s. Putting it into the Wayback machine results in 63 snapshots, only the oldest of which (From 1998! It was gone in 2000!) has content: http://web.archive.org/web/19981206071543/http://oak.cats.oh...

No images though. However, I noticed down at the bottom this text:

> All Beatles Images (c) Apple Corps Ltd. Page Design (c) 1997 jwinterprises

Well... off to google?

"Beatles shovel spaghetti" brings up multiple copies of this image, including an explanation: https://biteswiththebeatles.wordpress.com/2017/09/27/aunt-je...

> If you have ever owned a vinyl copy (or certain CD copies) of Magical Mystery Tour, you’ll know that it comes with a 28-page booklet containing song lyrics, drawings by cartoonist Bob Gibson, and scenes from the Magical Mystery Tour movie.

> [..]

> Yes, you looked at that correctly. That is John Lennon, dressed as an Italian waiter, literally shoveling buckets of spaghetti on this woman’s plate. You’re probably gonna want some context…

(Edit: and if I only scrolled further I see someone else already posted that link)


I suppose the same context as serving a drink in a jar.


The important lesson being to do it with a big smile!




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