Klackers

[orleans]

watch it here on the bbc!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/ilove/years/1971/toysclip.shtml

"Klackers

Also known as Klick-Klacks, Whackers, Ker-Knockers, Whack'os, Bangers, Poppers, Knockers, and various other names you wouldn’t want to put into an Internet search engine.

Klik-Klaks consisted of a pair of hard plastic balls tied to a ring by two pieces of string.

The ‘aim’ of the game was to swing them together and make a hugely annoying racket. Kids loved them, but doctors and teachers weren’t so impressed after a frightening succession of serious Klacker accidents.

After a nation outbreak of badly bruised arms and bloodshot eyes they were pretty much withdrawn from sale."

(ah, those were the days)

[maveric]

1. You can seriously fuck someone up with those!

I've seen them in action.

[KitchenWitch]

2. Klackers and Jarts

damn, why can't we have toys that have inherent danger in them anymore!

[lapfog_1]

3. I loved my "Jarts"...

but seriously, they could kill you without even trying hard.

[KitchenWitch]

4. Life is risky

LOL, seriously I loved my Jarts too....but they were not to be used by children or way too baked adults.

[orleans]

9. remember bag-o-glass from snl?

[WCGreen]

5. See what you can do with all that excess plastic from

the mill....

PSstt. Ithought they were ben wah balls at first...

Don't tell anyone.....

[roguevalley]

6. ah, the 70's. what an obnoxious but somehow intriguing decade.

stadium and corporate rock
leisure suits
phases one to four
gas lines
disco and roller skating

[WCGreen]

8. The decade that gave us Andrew Lloyd Weber

Bob seger, supertramp and the resurgent Bee Gees....

[Kathleen04]

7. When I was a kid...

they'd already changed them to these:



All plastic, not on a free-wielding string, similarly annoying to parents I'm sure! :)