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on March 7, 2010

Gotta love old toys. :) This gag requires very little explanation, but out of curiosity, I decided to look up yo-yo info anyway. The oldest surviving yo-yo is from 500 BC, and there are ancient Greek records of kids playing with yo-yos. There are currently many shapes of yo-yos, and the shape and weight distribution makes some better for certain tricks. Tricks, I might add, that I was never able to do. In fact, I found yo-yos highly frustrating as a child. I couldn't even get it to come back to me more than once. Then I got one of those "Yo-yo balls" that reel themselves in like a retractable dog leash. Not only did that remove the difficulty of a yo-yo, it removed the actual fun of one, imo. :-P Evil little toys…

Yo-yo links for the severely bored:
Museum of Yo-yo History
Begin2Spin
World's Largest Yo-yo Collection
Yo-yo on Wikipedia

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