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Where to plank in Toronto. Or, how to partake in the Internet’s weirdest trend since Rickrolling

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Have you spotted someone randomly lying face down in a weird place lately? Chances are they were planking. This so-called “art” has been the meme of the moment since earlier this year, and it doesn’t look like it’s ending anytime soon. Personally, we think it’s a pretty ridiculous pastime, but being good sports, we thought we would help out our local plankers (planksters?) with our list of the most ridiculous spots to plank in Toronto.

That’s a tasty beverage: Chartreuse livens up T.O.'s cocktail scene

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In Death Proof’s seedy Texan watering hole scene, Quentin Tarantino’s signature cameo character — this time a wily sleaze of a barkeep — feeds shots of mysterious green liqueur to his unwitting and saturated clientele. His response to a post-quaff barrage of gag-reflexes and slurred obscenities is an emphatic defense: “Chartreuse! The only liquor so good, they named a colour after it!”