very very old pukey lego
My (ex)mother in law gave my children all the lego her kids used to play with. There was a lot of it and it was about 20 years old at the time. At some point during my ex's childhood, her brother had puked into the lego box and it had never been cleaned very thoroughly and therefore still smelled of stale vomit. I spent an age cleaning it all, using a toothbrush to get all the little chunks out. I was outraged when I recently heard the ex had offloaded it all to a charity shop recently. Then I remembered that it's around 30 years old now, mostly broken (lego robot wars games are lots of fun but not so good for the lego), It's perished and brittle and probably still smells very faintly of very old vomit.

PS what the hell is with merkins calling it legos?
(teasus likes tea, Thu 10 May 2012, 12:48, 2 replies)

They borrow the 's' from maths

(LetsGetDownToIt, Thu 10 May 2012, 12:57, closed)

Much easier to put it in the washing machine
Tie it in a pillow case to stop the small bits escaping.

I did the same with some manky ebayed Fischertechnik - came out clean as a whistle.
( le brian, Thu 10 May 2012, 13:03, closed)