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The Museum of Cultural Waste: Kid Kore “Apache”

If there's one lesson I've learned from my numerous trips to charity shops (on both sides of the Irish sea) it is (alas) to expect the expected. For while such places hold out the slight promise of rare oddities and …

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The Museum of Cultural Waste: Quicksilver

Plain People of Ireland: (brightly) "Well", as the divil once said, "That's the Christmas over for another year thank God!"

Myself: Indeed. A bloated orgy of drink, turkey and ostentatious consumption…

Plain People of Ireland: (unsure) That's …

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The Museum of Cultural Waste: Mandy 1973

The second entry to go on display in fustar.info's Museum of Cultural Waste is not (I admit) wholly dissimilar from the first entry. I'd intended to drift away from vintage Girls' comics and discuss (say) the merits of …

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The Flights of Flopear

Due to popular demand, or, more precisely, the demand of a single individual ("graylien"), I hereby present another offering from the Bunty Book for Girls 1983. "More Flopear content! More Flopear content!", he begged. Wish granted.

"The Flights …

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The Museum of Cultural Waste: Bunty for Girls 1983

Since local supplies of shoddy, cheap toys remain limited and undependable, I thought it might prove vaguely amusing to launch a new series on the blog formerly known …