Friday, May 10, 2013

Remember these?

How many of you sported bumps and bruises
from trying to master the Clacker?
How many of you turned into ninjas
5 minutes after picking them up?
These were responsible for making
me look like a child abuse victim.

20 comments:

Paladin said...

My sister had some when I was little. I can still remember hearing that racket on the other side of the house :)

Bob S. said...

Oh yeah, the glass ones not the plastic tied together at the top can't hurt yourself model!


I don't know how my parents survived our youth; 4 kids each getting a set of them for Christmas.

Angel eyes said...

We had those. They would explode occasionally.

Phil said...

Those things were evil.

I'm positive they were invented by some grumpy old bastard muttering get off my lawn the whole time he was drawing them up.

Flier389 said...

WOW! We use to make them in shop class. Course, the ones we made were not as good as the store bought ones. I've got scar's on my arm, from when mine exploded.
We use to call them, Wacky Clackers. It got so bad, that they were banned from our school in Junior High.

Aww, what memories.

The Steel Ibeam said...

I want to know how many women became magicians with these toys. HA!

hiswiserangel said...

Really, Steel?! Whatever do you mean?

Anonymous said...

OMG! My oldest son has those now. I remember when he got them and I was so excited for the blast from the past. haha now they are driving me crazy... LOL

Anonymous said...

Ibeam hinted at it, I'll just come right out with it: aren't those Ben Wa Balls?

hiswiserangel said...

ccbpc, ben wa balls?! Still not getting it...

Devil Tongue said...

HWA, I refuse to draw you a picture if you truly are at a loss (which I doubt), however (and I shall go out on a limb here), exercise of the female genitalia is involved in this conversation.

The Steel Ibeam said...

Oh come on now Angel and dont play coy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Wa_balls

Now you see them, now you dont.

hiswiserangel said...

Devil Tongue, how are you darlin'? Been a while. And yeah, I'm just yankin' y'alls, um, chains? ;-)

Steel, thank you for the visual, now I know what the little ring at the end of the strings is for.

But honestly? Ouch. WAY TOO BIG.

Angel eyes said...

mine looked like that after my first "interaction" ahem, with wiserangel.

Unknown said...

I found a pair of wacky clackers recently at a fair. My name is Kelley. Around 50 (double entendre there) who has been lurking for a bit on your blog. Enjoying the banter...

Unknown said...
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hiswiserangel said...

Hey Kelley! Hope to hear from you more, you gosh darned lurker. ;-)

Unknown said...

Thanks Angel! I do most of my stuff from a phone and it isn't always that easy. I am from Texas on the north side.

hiswiserangel said...

Yea! a fellow Texan! Well anytime you've got something to say, just pipe in. We're all just a big bat-shit crazy family here.

Unknown said...

I knew I would be right at home from the first blog. ;)