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"Coked-up Dracula playing poker" could actually work

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But it would be very strange for an old Eastern European noble to be playing a Japanese card game and drinking a recently invented American beverage
- With a skeptical brow raised, the count begrudgingly sipped from a glass of Coca-Cola, a recently invented American beverage vastly different from the Romanian wines of his cellar. "Passable," he muttered under his breath, with a reluctant nod, betraying centuries of noble pride. Yet, as the night unfolded, a subtle smile crept over his pale face.
  
  He looked over to his guest, sitting opposite him on an old wooden chair. A traveler from a far away land, lost in these dark forests in this dark and stormy night, glad to have been given shelter. The man - he could not be older than thirty - had bowed profusely after his rescue from the elements.
  "I could never repay you completely for you help, but may I offer you a small token of thanks for your kindness? It's a game from my home, quite simple to play, it would be an honor to teach you. I have not seen its likeness in these lands, so it might offer you a sliver of fresh entertainment."
  
  Ahaha 👏
  
  " (Do) You like Huey Lewis and the News?
  Their early work was a little too new wave for my taste. But when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor."
  
  "Caffeine is terrible! I was up all night!"
  
  I do sometimes wonder what drinking the Cokaine-Cola must have been like
  
  If it's anything like just doing cocaine:
  Drink like 3 monster energies. It feels like that, but faster starting
  
  He never drinks... wine.
- It is historically plausible for a samurai to have sent a fax to Abraham Lincoln
- Any stranger than him being a vampire?
- Of any "class/type" of person to be doing something like that a noble is the most likely. High standing and money gives you easier access to things.
  
  That is true though anyone based on Vlad Tepij isn’t the type to get super into American beverages or East Asian games. Now show me a novel middle eastern game and a German beverage and that motherfucker is in
- He could travel to Baltimore for a bridge tournament.
  
  Did Nintendo make poker decks back then? They started out making cards for traditional Japanese card games like hanafuda because Western card games had limited presence in Japan.
  So this just presents the question of why someone is playing a bridge tournament in Baltimore using what would be to them weird cards they've never seen anything like before made by some Orientals.
  
  Bridge being the modern version of Russian Whist, where Whist would have been a better fit, being of the right era and eastern european origin.
  And Nintendo was simply producing cards so the Japanese diplomats might better understand their Russian counterparts by understanding their passtimes in an attempt to diffuse rising tensions before they lead to war...
  But alas no barge knocked down a whist anywhere recently.

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