"either to drink a cup filled with wine or to set the drinking game automaton in motion again." (3/3)

Museum of Arts and Crafts (Hamburg)

"This marvel of mechanics moved across the tabletop on hidden wheels and automatically came to a stop at the edge of the table. The courtly guest, before whom the wind-up tortoise stopped, had to spin the top in the vintner's hand and follow the toast presented to him: (2/3)

*thus

Yay!

I wish so much they would do that here!

(the smiley kiss sticker is from 2020, when I voted by mail and US didn't get a sticker, so I gave myself one of the stickers I put on letters to voters)

What a charming hangout spot! I would be cranky if someone bugged me when I was curled up there, too

Feel like I remember rolling my eyes so heartily at that article that I saw skull.

Someone please tell him it's a laptop not an etch a sketch

Found this treasure trove of Big Boys a few months ago, I'm still slightly haunted by it
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