One of the big fads when I was in eighth grade was a thing called "Knicker Knockers" or "Clackers", everyone had them including myself. If I recall accurately mine were green. They consisted of two colored glass balls about the size of plums. The balls were suspended on a string about twenty four inches long and doubled over and tied like those in the hand drawn picture at the bottom so you had a handle.
You played with these by knocking
the balls together hard enough to have them bounce again at the top. That force was hard enough to cause them to hit again at the bottom of the arc. The object of the game was to see who could keep them going the longest without stopping, in this manner. This fad lasted only a short time, although they were great fun, it was determined they were actually dangerous as the glass balls could chip or sliver, and had on occasion blinded a few people. My parents made me throw mine away.
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