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Mother Clap's Vampirate Porno Cake: a recipe.
I just came to the startling realisation that I've never written down the recipe for the cake of chocolately alcoholic death I make when I have visitors.
The Devil would eat this cake after giving faux-birth to a wooden doll in a Whitechapel molly house full of petticoated sphyilitic sailors.
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Jack The Ripper's Face 'Revealed'.
Exciting, if faintly implausible, news! Using e-fit techniques, investigators have released an image of Jack The Ripper's face.
Here he is, the grisly beast:
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Scans of the theatrical photographs
I've finally got round to scanning those Victorian photographs in.
None of them are dated, but quite a few in the box were 1880-ish.
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Is it me...
...or does "Moxie" sounds like something obscene you'd find scrawled on the walls of male public toilets at the turn of the century? "Do you Moxie?", "Be my Moxie", "Charles loves to Moxie", etc.
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Those kinky Edwardians...
Cool article on nipple piercing and tattoos in the Edwardian age. How fresh nipple rings and corsets co-existed, I'm not sure, but the ladies quoted seem to be quite serene about the experience:
"I partially undressed and seated myself on a couch by the side of Madame B, who passed her arm round my neck and held me steadily..."
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