I am scared i have just been sent a mysterious parcel which i open and there are holes punched inthe lid as if to let something breathe wtf is it?????

[FrannyandZooey]

help

this has to go into mumsnet classics; I've been on the edge of my seat waiting for someone I don't know to open a box of conch shells!

FandZ

I think you should print off this thread, and give it to ds when he's about 15, and say "Remember that wanky basket full of interesting things Mummy gave you when you were little? Well, read this, it's much more interesting"

oMG southeastastra
these are those smooth spotty shells, perhaps they aren't conches
I can't think what they are called

I don't think anything in it has even BEEN alive, except in plant form.

COWRIE SHELLS

IT WAS FOUR COWRIE SHELLS HALLELUJAH

Thankyou JackieNo, it's hard being ignored when I WAS RIGHT.

Gosh, I've never shouted on MN before, I really think I got a little too sucked into this thread.

Aha. No need to explain Cod, ta. I have been lurking (v slow typing) for a million years or so.

they're lovely, i had some of them with googly eyes in the 70s

Cowrie shells?

Too late, I see...

yes how funny Randy we had the same link

Rusty oh god RUSTY
crikey must get a grip
I am flooded with adrenalin here

May I ask, late in the day, why shells need air?

snigger i only wish i knew
perhaps she knew they smelt damp and was trying to air them?

My bladder was doing ok until you called Rusty, Randy.

Gave me a bit of a start too IB.....

it was the shells
they are all strokable and suggestive

look at this one

OK, I can see why that one might put the word into your head.

If you were slightly strange.....

lol that website is called man and mollusc

ooh dear

GIANT mooncup

Oh shit, you already opened it, I'm wrong...

whats a wanky basket?

Pmsl at Man and Mollusc

It may serve as a giant mooncup if you were really desperate. Gotta watch out for the sharp edges, though

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