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Smash Wogan writes, "we all love our Mums, but we all know that Mums can be cunts, throwing out our carefully hoarded crap that we know is going to be worth millions some day."

What priceless junk have you lost because someone just threw it out?

Zero points for "all my porn". Unless it was particularly good porn...

(, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 16:32)
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I would also
like more transformers. In fact, this is how this post would look in a perfect world:

A good friendtransformer of mine had been living up in Manchester around '91-'92 and had arranged a flat for himself to stay. A colleague2000AD Enthusiast had just bought a place at auction that needed clearing out, so hehis mum went along to help clear the stuff and chuck it in the dustbin.

What hehis mum found however still staggers us to this very day. The former owner of the flat had been none other than Factory Records, who had just gone toes up owing a small fortune. The flat and it's contents had been flogged at auction (at the height of the last recession remember) for absolute peanuts. The man that wrote and printed 2000AD and manufactured Star Wars and Transformers Toys

Inside, my friend and his colleague stumbled upon a stash of vinyl, both for retail and white label and radio only for New Order (amongst other bands). By far the best find of all were a number or original metal master discs, from which the vinyl mouldings would be taken.

This stuff would probably be worth a fortune. However, I'm pleased to report that in lieu of payment for his help, my friend received a stack of white labels and a couple of metal master discs and having half a brain has hung on to them to this very day.

My friend was generous enough to pass on to me a small selection of his haul of discs, including Technique, Round & Round and Confusion (retail copies only I'm afraid) together with a couple of white labels for Round & Round and one half of the Substance compilation. I've got radio only 7" for Run 2 also.

Throw them out? Not on your nelly...


But his mum threw them out as "he wasn't using them" and he threw a girly hissy fit and whinged on an internet forum about it despite the fact that NOBODY CARED

Sadly it's not a perfect world, so this story gets a click for being a valid contribution to the QOTW.
(, Tue 19 Aug 2008, 14:58, Reply)

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