The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for January 02, 2021

Kids nowadays!! Everything has to have batteries in their devices to be “functional!!” Life was so much simpler…back then!

:-(

He’s probably never seen a rotary telephone either or even an 8 track player.

Invented by a Pennsylvanian and fun for all ages.

Some toys never go out of style-and they never should!

Is there a Bluetooth version?

Where is the console ?

New Year , old nickname , new avatar .

Quote by Patricia Briggs: “Some people are like Slinkies. They aren’t really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.”

I tried that stair thing when I was a kid. I think our condo had defective stairs. The Slinky would get two or three steps in, and then fall all over itself. It wasn’t near as much fun as one sees on TV. Hot Wheels and stairs now, that’s a different story.

Wait till you try programming it!

It’s amazing it lasted this long without getting bent or tangled up…

Put the batteries in your tazer.

A child and I were playing with a shape-sorter when the dad said, “Wait- you forgot to turn it on!” Never even thought of turning it on! I was focused on helping the child’s mind to ‘turn on’.

Ah, the innocence of youth. Though as a Grandpa, I would have said,“The same place where you put them in your yoyo”……

and if you stretch it out and tap it with a screwdriver you get the sound of a ray gun

Or the “ears” antennae on top of the ol’ T.V.’s !!!

At the top of the stairs.

Why would it walk down the stairs? What if you live in a single story house??

In high school physics in 1972 the teacher stretched out a slinky on the floor and used it to demonstrate wave theory

Ah, the good ol’ days, when a slinky was a child’s toy instead of a fashion statement.

I had a slinky that did not perform as advertised. I tried some modifications and then it not perform at all. There was a Barbie with a very unfortunate haircut too. :)

“What walks downstairs, alone or in pairs and makes a slinkety sound? A spring, a spring, a marvelous thing, everyone knows its Slinky!”…

A slinky is a clear demonstration of Hooke’s law is a law of physics that states that the force (F) needed to extend or compress a spring by some distance (x) scales linearly with respect to that distance.

Which is sure to inspire Wilberforce to a career in Physics.

That is as soon as he understands it doesn’t need batteries to operate

Anywhere you want.