Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for December 17, 2012

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    unnormal  almost 12 years ago

    And they cost — what? — $1.37?

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    Superfrog  almost 12 years ago

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

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    Linguist  almost 12 years ago

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

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    Can't Sleep  almost 12 years ago

    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?)

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    Gigantor  almost 12 years ago

    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.

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    cdoorn98  almost 12 years ago

    “You know, for kids.”

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    Varnes  almost 12 years ago

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

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    Varnes  almost 12 years ago

    Show her how to use it, Dad…..

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    jazzmoose  almost 12 years ago

    Be thankful it wasn’t a Slinky, Danae.

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    einarbt7  almost 12 years ago

    Danae cry? Has that ever happened?

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    alviebird  almost 12 years ago

    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.

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    tripwire45  almost 12 years ago

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

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    Coyoty Premium Member almost 12 years ago

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

    “It’s supposed to be used outside.”

    “They played outside? On purpose?”

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    hariseldon59  almost 12 years ago

    Where do insert the batteries?

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    alviebird  almost 12 years ago

    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

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    BluePumpkin  almost 12 years ago

    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

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    Linguist  almost 12 years ago

    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 !

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    I'll fly away  almost 12 years ago

    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.

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    ostviking  almost 12 years ago

    Alexikakos & “Decomposing Composers”

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

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    tazz555  almost 12 years ago

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

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    chriscc63  almost 12 years ago

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

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    notinksanymore  almost 12 years ago

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

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    workingathome  almost 12 years ago

    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.

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    Vonne Anton  almost 12 years ago

    No comment. (See?)

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    Rickapolis  almost 12 years ago

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

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    pcolli  almost 12 years ago

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

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    roctor  almost 12 years ago

    Wheres the stick?

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    vwdualnomand  almost 12 years ago

    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?

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    Buggerlugs  almost 12 years ago

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

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    bevgrey  almost 12 years ago

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

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    orz  almost 12 years ago

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

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