Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for December 17, 2012

And they cost — what? — $1.37?

Danae, a girl with a hula hoop had no trouble getting her own space.

I guess Danae isn’t interested in being a swinger.

Oh, how true!When’s the last time you saw a kid play with something as simple as that? (Yeah, right. 1968.)What really bothers me is that I remember them from the 50s. (How can my body be so old when my mind feels so young?)

Ah, yes, the good, old days of prehistory, when we had to “suffer” with toys like pogo sticks or Super Elastic Bubble Plastic. Kids don’t know what they’re missing.

“You know, for kids.”

I liked rolling them out with back spin, so it would slide away, but then would reverse and come back to you……

Show her how to use it, Dad…..

Be thankful it wasn’t a Slinky, Danae.

Danae cry? Has that ever happened?

Yes, pity us poor children of yesteryear. We actually had to use our imaginations in order to play with most toys. Not just have it diddled.

Something that wasn’t computerized and it was fun. Imagine that.

“It must have been hard to use without breaking anything.”

“It’s supposed to be used outside.”

“They played outside? On purpose?”

Where do insert the batteries?

And then there is the ‘Shoop-Shoop Hula Hoop’. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2gVJT_IcR0

They just kept trying to bring the hula hoop back, all through the ’70s.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF968AGzsDg

This one’s actually mildly entertaining.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bObi1PDWrNc

Multiples were easy if you knew how to get one going. Of course now I’d need a lead ball bearing inside one to get it to work. That’s how I knew I was old . . when I tried to hula hoop with some friends in a Walmart and all I got was one rotation before the darned thing was on the floor. :p

MY GOD! You actually mean in the “Fresh Air”, and “Sunshine”??>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Even if they are involved with outdoor activities, today’s screenagers are never far from the electrical umbilical cord. They text while playing sports !

I had a pogo stick in the 70’s. It gave me a good workout. I was always to heavy to use a Hulahoop right. Oh, well.

Alexikakos & “Decomposing Composers”

I don’t know when Monty Python first used that old joke but it was already old in 1966

I understand imagination was key years ago…but who came up with Hoola Hoop? Were they drunk and/or high?

I think there was a suble joke in there, like Diane thought it might be a iud or something.

I want a hula hoop. It’s a great workout and fun too! Wonder where you can get them these days…

My kids love hula hoops. I’m not sure why it is, but both times we’ve rented a house with a back yard, there has been a hula hoop already in the yard. Not even broken ones, they were perfectly good.

No comment. (See?)

Hey, I had a hula hoop. You mean I could have GRANDCHILDREN?? Oh, right. I’m 60.

All you people who are complaining that kids love their technology….who buys it for them????

Wheres the stick?

toys of our youth. lincoln logs, gi joe, transformers, legos, ball and stick. ball and cup, not that many cares in the world. nowadays, bills, war, violence, adulthood. was it always this hard?

Young kids still prefer to play with the box it came in.

They’re still around. I saw a bunch of 20 somethings playing with them in a local park a few months back.

I think Wiley draws and writes for Danae as a person that embodies all that he secretly hates about people.