O the goodly years that might have been — now desolate and bare!
After recently revisiting the retro/manky charms of "Old Maid" and its catalogue of ineligible bachelors, I did a quick search to see...
Toys/Manky Toys Category
To see a world in an old maid’s glasses, and heaven in a motorist’s slacks…
So there we were, Betty Octopus and I, in a newsagent queue. All ready to buy the reasonably-priced jellies and chocolate and water...
Feet that Dance Beneath the Moon In Fairy Jollity: The 2010 Manky Toy Show – Live!
(Scene: The interior of a modest semi-detached house. The décor is fussy, chintzy and predominantly brown. The general air is one...
Aaah! The Manky Toy Show is Dead!
Well…no, not really.
Due to bits and bobs (and a toddler who's a mite pukey) tomorrow night's scheduled Manky Toy Show is hereby...
I See you When You’re Sleeping: 7 Days to Mankageddon…
Frozen, sad-eyed, defeated people of Ireland. Prepare to ignite your dormant pleasure centres. Ready yourselves for giddy fun-times....
I Won Me a Dollar/Send Me Your Mank
Filth pays. It previously secured me a glorious, limited edition badge, and now it has actually won me cash money (courtesy of filth-encourager,...
Fear Factor and Killing Power
Look, I know that Top Trumps, as a game, has most likely always been shit – interminable, tedious and requiring practically no...
Upon Death’s Purple Altar: The 2009 Manky Toy Show – Live!
(Curtain draws back to reveal…not a stage, but bare concrete walls atop a bare concrete floor. On this floor are two bins. In...
‘Tis the Season to be Manky
Christmas is coming! It cannot be stopped! It will kill us all! Aaaaaarrrgggh!!!
It's been one of those years. Economy? Dead. Hope?...
Manky Toy Monday: Footsie for Boys & Girls
932 days ago – back when Manky Toy Monday first announced itself to an awed & agog interweb – the world was a radically...
Manky Toy Monday: Enlighten Children on a Brains
Oh passionate fans of bootleged tat, please forgive me. It's been six full (or empty) months since I brought you any Manky Toy badness....
Bits/Bobs/Odds/Ends/Awards (and Boggly eyes)
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After culls and purges vicious enough to shame Uncle Joe Stalin, 5 battered & wobbly survivors are left (just about) standing...
Don’t Grimace, Be Happy Meal
Back in the early years of this decade, when fustar.info was but a faint twinkle in the deepest recesses of mine eye, I was a reasonably...
None for Anyone in the Audience: The 2008 Manky Toy Show – Live!
9.00 – A pair of cheap, stained curtains open. A thin figure bounds jovially through them and onto the stage. A glamorous, heavily...
Manky Toy Show is Go!
Friday, 5th December, 2008 @ 9.00 p.m.
Pencil that date and that time into your diaries. If you don't have a diary then sprint madly...
