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warrrreagl · 08-17-2006, 05:02 AM

Clackers.

Grancey still has hers. Does anybody else remember these weapons of mass destruction? They were two colored solid glass balls dangling from each end of a thin rope. You grabbed the rope in the middle and moved your hand up and down. The balls would then fly up and down and CLACK into each other above and below your wrist and you'd see how long you could keep it up. It sounded like a machine gun if you did it right.

Every kid in school at one point had horrible black-and-blue bruises all over their forearms from these little missiles, but the only reason they finally outlawed them was because the glass would eventually BREAK on you. Yikes!

How did we survive childhood? We're the same generation that played with Lawn Darts.....

08-17-2006, 05:02 AM	#32 (permalink)
warrrreagl pinche vato Location: backwater, Third World, land of cotton	Clackers. Grancey still has hers. Does anybody else remember these weapons of mass destruction? They were two colored solid glass balls dangling from each end of a thin rope. You grabbed the rope in the middle and moved your hand up and down. The balls would then fly up and down and CLACK into each other above and below your wrist and you'd see how long you could keep it up. It sounded like a machine gun if you did it right. Every kid in school at one point had horrible black-and-blue bruises all over their forearms from these little missiles, but the only reason they finally outlawed them was because the glass would eventually BREAK on you. Yikes! How did we survive childhood? We're the same generation that played with Lawn Darts..... __________________ Living is easy with eyes closed. Last edited by warrrreagl; 08-17-2006 at 05:04 AM..