One year...
My folks fell on really hard times and it looked like my brother and I would be getting stationary or some such crap. Luckily my uncle came to visit that year. Now he's a bit of an aged hippy, believes in the power of crop circles or some such but he has been around the world especially India and south asia. So I was expecting something exotic that I could at least brag about in school.

The old stoner didn't give us jack. He just gave my dad some cheesy ethnic good luck charm he'd got in a bazaar and expected us to put him up and feed him for the rest of the month. I was seething.

I'd almost given up going back to school with anything cool when all of a sudden my parents got a windfall and I got tons of stuff, a bike, a new console, cool trainers and everything.

My uncle said it was thanks to his good luck charm but it was just a stuffed monkey paw, honestly he'd take credit for the weather if he could.

Wierdly that was the same week that my brother disappeared. My parents are really reticent to discuss it so I don't push.
(Bo Nidle Coming back in from the cold., Tue 1 Dec 2009, 19:37, 4 replies)

got it at good luck charm

( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Tue 1 Dec 2009, 19:45, closed)

Hmm,
Sold your bro eh? Sounds like they got a good price!

Wonder if I could get away with that...

(Sorry if I'm missing an obv' film/tv reference, I'm lost as to what it is if so...)
(AndyC4m Eject Eject [><], Wed 2 Dec 2009, 13:29, closed)

look up "The monkey's paw"
the Simpsons did a version of it on one of their haloween shows.
(Bo Nidle Coming back in from the cold., Wed 2 Dec 2009, 15:47, closed)

The Frogurt is also cursed
ooo that's bad
(The Oscillating Gibbon is eating curried squid, Wed 2 Dec 2009, 21:35, closed)