Queen Victoria: Difference between revisions

'''Captain Blackadder:''' ''So your father's German, you're half-German, and you married a German?''"|''[[Blackadder|Blackadder Goes Forth]]''}}

* [[Determinator]]: See the above caption, spoken during the Second Boer War in 1899. For the record, they won, though she didn't live to see it.

* [[Dumbass Has a Point]]: At first the Queen and Prince couldn't decide on the design for the Great Exhibition Building; brick or stone would be too heavy and costly, and would never get done in time, and wood would still take too long and add fire danger. A public contest was held, and the winning answer (a giant greenhouse, which was easy to assemble quickly, let in sunlight and could be built around the trees in the park) came from a lower-class gardener, who was supposedly quite dull. Later, they wondered how to get the sparrows in the trees from defecating on everyone, and his second ingenious answer got him knighted:

** That's kind of selling the man short; Joseph Paxton, the aforementioned Gardener, was in the employ of the Duke of Devonshire, and had spent 25 years turning the Duke's Estate into the most technologically advanced botanical establishment in the whole of Victorian-era Europe. Also, the Crystal Palace looks like a greenhouse because Paxton was one of the men responsible for creating the modern Greenhouse design.

*** He also spawned the saying "Got a problem? Give it to Paxton!"