I learned something new today

[PhiLandShiR 18]

I think the Filpino people lost out big time here....

1929: Yo-Yos (Duncan)

Hotel bellhop Pedro Flores, attracted a crowd playing a traditional Filipino game with an object on a string during his lunch break, he started the Flores Yo-Yo Company. (Incidentally, "yo-yo" means "come-come" or "come back.")

Could have been a major money maker for some smart Filipino....

-Phil

[muñequita linda 0]

I think the Filpino people lost out big time here....

1929: Yo-Yos (Duncan)

Hotel bellhop Pedro Flores, attracted a crowd playing a traditional Filipino game with an object on a string during his lunch break, he started the Flores Yo-Yo Company. (Incidentally, "yo-yo" means "come-come" or "come back.")

Could have been a major money maker for some smart Filipino....

-Phil

So, yo-yo means come-come, eh! I didn't know that. All I know is when my husband is ready to come-come!

[Ban Hammer 13,395]

^^^

[Darnell 8,478]

Ya, was a tool for attack, first, yes?

[Deputy Purple 1,294]

Ya, was a tool for attack, first, yes?

Yep, originally used for hunting. A skilled striker could render the target game (like a wild pig) unconscious with a single blow to the head!

[PhiLandShiR 18]

Countless households across America would be stunned to know they have bought weapons for their children to play with...

I learned 2 things today!

-Phil

Ya, was a tool for attack, first, yes?

Yep, originally used for hunting. A skilled striker could render the target game (like a wild pig) unconscious with a single blow to the head!

[Ban Hammer 13,395]

Ya, was a tool for attack, first, yes?

Yep, originally used for hunting. A skilled striker could render the target game (like a wild pig) unconscious with a single blow to the head!

good thing they are not popular in the usa, otherwise we'd have to get a license to carry them concealed.

[Darnell 8,478]

I modded one, once, when I lived in a bad part of town, usually carried it when I went outside.

GREAT CONCEALED WEAPON

[PhiLandShiR 18]

Actually they are popular...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo-yo

-Phil

Ya, was a tool for attack, first, yes?

Yep, originally used for hunting. A skilled striker could render the target game (like a wild pig) unconscious with a single blow to the head!

good thing they are not popular in the usa, otherwise we'd have to get a license to carry them concealed.

[Jasman0717 9]

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So, yo-yo means come-come, eh! I didn't know that. All I know is when my husband is ready to come-come!

[Jasman0717 9]

D.F. Duncan Sr. was the co-patent holder of a four-wheel hydraulic automobile brake and the marketer of the first successful parking meter. He was also the genius behind the first premium incentive where you sent in two cereal box tops and received a toy rocket ship. However, Duncan is best known for being responsible for promoting the first great yoyo fad in the United States.

Duncan was not the inventor of the yoyo; they have been around for over twenty-five hundred years. In fact the yoyo or yo-yo is considered the second oldest toy in history, the oldest being the doll. In ancient Greece, the toy was made of wood, metal and terra cotta. The Greeks decorated the two halves of the yoyo with pictures of their gods. As a right of passage into adulthood Greek children often gave up their toys and placed them on the family alter to pay homage. Around 1800, the yoyo moved into Europe from the Orient. The British called the yoyo the bandalore, quiz or the Prince of Wales toy. The French used the name incroyable or l'emigrette. However, it is a Tagalog word, the native language of the Philippines, and means "come back". In the Philippines, the yoyo was used as a weapon for over 400 hundred years. Their version was large with sharp edges and studs and attached to thick twenty-foot ropes for flinging at enemies or prey.

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[PhiLandShiR 18]

Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary states that the word "yo-yo" probably derives from the northern Philippine Ilokano language word "yóyo".

Many other sources including Panati's Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things say that "yo-yo" was a Tagalog word supposedly meaning

"come-come" or "return". It is sometimes asserted that the yo-yo was a weapon in the Philippines. Others assert this is an urban legend

and that stories about how the yo-yo was a Filipino weapon did not originate in the Philippines. Lucky Meisenheimer, author of

"Lucky's Collectors Guide to 20th Century Yo-Yos - History and Values", characterizes this as popular but fabricated.

-Phil

D.F. Duncan Sr. was the co-patent holder of a four-wheel hydraulic automobile brake and the marketer of the first successful parking meter. He was also the genius behind the first premium incentive where you sent in two cereal box tops and received a toy rocket ship. However, Duncan is best known for being responsible for promoting the first great yoyo fad in the United States.

Duncan was not the inventor of the yoyo; they have been around for over twenty-five hundred years. In fact the yoyo or yo-yo is considered the second oldest toy in history, the oldest being the doll. In ancient Greece, the toy was made of wood, metal and terra cotta. The Greeks decorated the two halves of the yoyo with pictures of their gods. As a right of passage into adulthood Greek children often gave up their toys and placed them on the family alter to pay homage. Around 1800, the yoyo moved into Europe from the Orient. The British called the yoyo the bandalore, quiz or the Prince of Wales toy. The French used the name incroyable or l'emigrette. However, it is a Tagalog word, the native language of the Philippines, and means "come back". In the Philippines, the yoyo was used as a weapon for over 400 hundred years. Their version was large with sharp edges and studs and attached to thick twenty-foot ropes for flinging at enemies or prey.

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[Veemer 0]

I will remember this the next time I am in bed with the Fiancee I will tell her im going to Yo-Yo !!!

[SuperDuper! 230]

I modded one, once, when I lived in a bad part of town, usually carried it when I went outside.

GREAT CONCEALED WEAPON

[tallcoolone 102]

I will remember this the next time I am in bed with the Fiancee I will tell her im going to Yo-Yo !!!

I know this chick she lives down on Melrose

She ain't satisfied without some pain

Friday night is goin' up inside her...again

Well crack the whip

'Cause that ###### is just insane

I'm serious

She's pretty tied up

Hangin' upside down

She's pretty tied up

An you can ride her

She's pretty tied up

Hangin' upside down

I can't tell you she's the right one

Oh no,oh no,oh no

Once there was this rock n' roll band rollin' on the streets

Time went by and it became a joke

We just needed more and more fulfilling- Uh-huh

Time went by and it all went up in smoke

But check it out

She's pretty tied up

Hangin' upside down

She's pretty tied up

An you can ride her

She's pretty tied up

Hangin' upside down

Ohh I can't tell you she's the

right one

Oh no,oh no,oh no

Once you made that money it costs more now

It might cost a lot more than you'd think

I just found a million dollars

That someone forgot

It's days like this that push me o'er the brinks

Cool and stressing

(pronounced:Kool ranch dres'ing)

She's pretty tied up

Hangin' upside down

She's pretty tied up

An you can ride her

She's pretty tied up

Hangin' upside down

And I can't tell you she's the

right one

Oh she's the right one...[etc.]

(But I can tell you a thing or two

'Bout somethin' else

If you really wanna know-Know what

I'm sayin')