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(via Dark Roasted Blend: Extraordinary Inventions: Victorian-Era Prank Machines)
The Pledge Altar
The candidate kneels before the altar in a darkened room, when—Lo! Up before him jumps a skeleton with large, illuminated, glaring eyes; a blank cartridge is exploded; a stream of water hits him in the face; an electric shock is shot into his knees. $76.00
Hey… I have $76.00.
Those wacky Victorians.
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