Yo-Yo originally invented as a weapon? [Archive]

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Yao Sing

03-25-2008, 04:39 AM

According to a Montain Dew commercial (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8LkBWPYcY8) the yo-yo is a weapon. Bet the Chinese invented it too.

Jimbo

03-25-2008, 04:43 AM

It was a Filipino invention.

mickey

03-25-2008, 04:59 AM

Greetings,

It was a Semitic weapon.

Invented during the time of David after he slew Goliath. His grandpa stepped up behind him and slapped David wickedly across the back of his head and told him, "You slung away a good stone you putz!! Next time put a string around it so you can get it back."

Lo and behold, the yoyo was born.

mickey

MasterKiller

03-25-2008, 05:40 PM

The earliest surviving yo-yo dates to 500 BC, made using Terra cotta disks. A Greek vase (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Yo-yo_player_Antikensammlung_Berlin_F2549.jpg/280px-Yo-yo_player_Antikensammlung_Berlin_F2549.jpg) from this period shows a boy playing yo-yo.

GeneChing

03-25-2008, 06:21 PM

Check out Yo Yo Girl Cop (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccVG_CfPRvI).