Clackers took a piece of ranching equipment and turned it into the most dangerous fad on the American playground. The toy’s basic design traces back to the bola, a throwing weapon used by South ...

DOES ANYONE remember clackers? One of the most basic – not to say genitally suggestive – toys of the 1970s comprised two plastic spheres, each suspended from a string attached to the same plastic tab.

"Meet Clackers the class bear, Gabriel’s got him for the weekend,” said my friend Amanda, as we trudged up the hill to the Iron Age fort with the kids early on Sunday morning. Ah, I thought, that ...

Modern kids: you can keep your Pokémon, your wi-fi devices and your 'video' games. Back in the day all they had were Clackers. Good, old-fashioned, potentially deadly Clackers. This clip is from ...

The Man may have confiscated your clackers (it's health and safety gone mad!) but fret not, Blue Peter has the solution. Originally broadcast 14 October 1971. 1971: Alternatives to dangerous Clackers.

We officially started watching Christmas films this weekend gone (alright, three weekends ago). One of them was the hilariously awful Jingle All the Way, starring Schwarzenegger, Sinbad (the comedian, ...

IN THE 1970s, "clackers" were all the rage. The two acrylic spheres attached to the end of a piece of string captured kids' attention like no other toy could. Clackers came in many colors and some ...

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