The Electric Tablecloth

People would end up spending like 80,000 pounds in order to have one of these things. You need the heated bathtub though because you don't want to get into the bath tub and have it cold. There's a famous photo of a man who'd been continuously cooked in his for about a week. This is a real era of mod cons though, wasn't it? I mean, that's kind of such a mod con. And then all your electrical appliances like your toaster and your like candlesticks with lamps on them and stuff have got spikes on the bottom. And you stab them through and they make the connections.

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