Tag: pogo sticks

Joe Collidge on a Pogo Stick REPRINT

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I am so prowed of our Stodent Soviet!!! we has got the Collidge to go ahed with our Own Greeen New Deel! and so we has band Fossle Feuls and no boddy thay can has a “car” axept four “the” Comrads whoo reely neeeds one! and no more Ellectrisitty in the Dorms at nihght! And “best of” all the Collidge thay has buyed a hole Lot “of” Pogo Sticks and put themb al aruond “the” Campus so yiu “can” uze one wenevver yiu has got to “go” somware!!!

i has lernt a Importint “thing” abote Pogo Sticks thuohgh and that “is” it is Eezy to Fall Off! Butt at leest the Pogo Sticks thay are al Freee!!!!!! thats rihght yiu hasnt got “to” pay nothing to uze one,, thay jist upped “the” Tution anether $Hundrid Dolors a Samestor!!

Anether “thing” i has lernt “is” not to Go Swimbing if yiu has yur Sell Phoan in yur Pockit!! Yiu see the geye in the viddio he is “a” Deen and he goed Swimbing whith his Pogo Stick butt he fourgetted his Sell Phoan and it got “alll whet” so he throwed it Aweigh!! Otherwyse it “is Fun” to uze yur Pogo Stick “to go” Swimbing i whant to lern how “to” bounts Up and Down on “the Bottum” of the Poool!!! like a Supra Heero!!

We wer “goingto” ban Jett Planes too only we hasnt got one!!!

Finely we are “goingto” ban al Meet And Vegtubbles fromb Campus yiu can only eet other Stuff unlest yiu are “a” Comrad then yiu can eet “waht” yiu whant becose Comrads thay are so Importint!!!

We are “goingto” set a goood Axampul four “the” Rest of The Whirld and aslo the Cuontry!!!!!!

Should I Get a Pogo Stick?

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Hoping to replicate the joys of youth, I’ve been thinking about acquiring a pogo stick. Once upon a time, I was a regular Tanystropheus on pogo stick. If my mother had ever seen some of the tricks I did, she would have had conniptions. Hoping up and down the football bleachers, for instance: oh, she’d’ve loved that. I wonder if I’m daft enough to try again…

Memory Lane: Pogo Stick

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This 1958 (or ’59) pogo stick is the same kind I had at the time, with the red sponge rubber ball on top for a handle. And if my mother had ever seen the tricks I was doing with my pogo stick, she would’ve had a kazoo.

The kid in this video is good–but I was bouncing up and down our cellar stairs and even up and down the high school football bleachers. You do things when you’re ten years old that you wouldn’t dream of attempting after you’ve grown up.

My friends across the street had a pair of stilts just like those in the video, but none of us ever mastered that art.

One day, alas, a kid in the neighborhood who was much too big for my pogo stick tried it out and bent it beyond repair. And so my pogo days were over.

But if I can ever get my hands on another one…

P.S.–Dig the cool cars in the background!