Yo-yos

[MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu]

The good doktor's obviously a stranger to the Philadelphia streets of my youth
 where the *Imperial Conk* was a favorite, if expert level, manuever--
much harder than a full five-second Rocking the Cradle (Walking the Dog? You call that a 
yo-yo trick? sneeeer)--but much more satisfying.  Little wrist flick, straight horizontal 
frozen vector POP, off the left occiput and back in the sweaty hand, concealed, before the 
victim IS AWARE HE'S BEEN STRUCK.

But maybe I know this only because of Rafik, a childhood buddy of Pilipino origin.
Hey Feeky, whatever became of you?

john m
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jimmydr writes:
>Most interesting (to a Pynhead like me, at least) was the claim that yo-yos
[ . . .] began as weapons and wound up as kids' toys