The Discovery...
Oh so many all around the same time…

Anyone remember ‘Wicked Willy’… My dad a book under his bed – always read it when they went out….
loved the pictures – never got the jokes.

But…

There was an alleyway near our house and the kids used to collect conkers from there every autumn. It was only round the corner from our house. We’d always be found down there - it was great until….The Discovery happened. Not 1, not 2 , not 10 – but a bin liner full of ‘Johhny Vaughn’ mags. Not your old classics like Razzle or Escort. These had blokes in it as well - doing things to the protagonists. It was a haul of biblical proportions.
These were what you would call ‘Truckers Specials’ - hand selected by our Logistic Knights of the Road on their visits to the continent. Either someone had decided to have a good clear out of their lorry or someones’s wife had found it and told him to ‘get rid’.

I can still picture some of the images…If these were on the internet now – they’ come under the category of ‘Specialst’ or ‘Other’

IT didn’t last for long… there was a Turd in the Punchbowl. Someone had told one of the parents of this discovery and so they all met up in the street – and took action. They got one of those garden furnaces (a metal bin with holes in it) and opted to burn them.

One thing I remember was that it was the Mums that went and located the haul and dragged it back to its firery grave not the Dads…Like they all knew that had the Dads taken control of the situation – the bin liner would have come back a lot lighter than it should have been…

I can’t help but think that these were being stored for someone else – only put there the previous night, until a safehouse could be found – he might have paid a handsome sum too… .

From that days onwards (my childhood), I never walked past a bin liner or plastic bag without kicking it open with my feet – and it payed on several occasions.
(Pat mustard, Thu 11 Aug 2011, 14:14, 3 replies)

I remeber disposing of my stash.
Must have been shortly before heading off to uni. It wasn't much (a few issues of Parade, and an alarming number of Daily Sports), but I did briefly toy with the idea of just dumping them in an alleyway. As it was, I put them in a paper recycling bin, and regretted in immediately.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 11 Aug 2011, 14:26, closed)

Well, think of the emissions you prevented.

( Ghoti Fingers, Thu 11 Aug 2011, 14:41, closed)

Oh, very good!
*applause*
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 11 Aug 2011, 14:45, closed)