Check out this nineteenth-century version of Cards Against Humanity, “A Trip to Paris, A Laughable Game,” courtesy of our friends at the American Antiquarian Society. You, too, will thrill to the answer of the question, “a tender-hearted doughnut, or an intoxicated clam?”
My question remains, however: what’s the nineteenth-century version of “naked and face-down in a Denny’s parking lot?”
Historiann 
My question remains, however: what’s the nineteenth-century version of “naked and face-down in a Denny’s parking lot?”
I am a nice guy so I would not know, but if I were to speculate it involved Rimbaud, absinthe, and the Bois de Bologne
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Or in the early nineteenth century Baudeliare, opium, and a nasty alley behind Palais Royal.
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How about just “Edgar Allan Poe”?
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HA-hahaha!!! Love it.
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“An oppressed bootjack” reminds me that I’d like to steal one of those Greek columns underlying the busts behind the gamebrarians, to place it under a miniature 1745 cheap reproduction French globe that I have. Anyone out there know where you can actually get those things, without having to resort to the “smash-and-grab” methodology that I can’t bring myself to try on the street? Every time I see one in a flower shop, a coffee shop, or some other retail venue, doing its decorative duty, and ask the proprietors, it almost seems as though it’s some kind of a cult thing, where you have to know somebody. Hopefully this bootjack didn’t lead me into a threadjack, which is one level beneath smash-and-grab.
Face down in parking lot puts me in mind, for now, of that awful biker thing in Waco.
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I did a web search on “fake Greek column” and found several places that would like to sell me one. I think I’ve seen them at home-and-garden stores, too—look in the plants section.
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