Don't confuse with "clUnker", an old car/machine.

nor with "clackers", and insanely dangerous early 70s toy consisting of two glass balls you smash together at accelerated speeds right in front of your face. I guess they were trying to make us feel better that they were taking our jarts away.

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jimmydddd 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Thanks for the reminder of that! This girl who sat behind me in second grade was great with clackers. Also, my memory is a bit foggy, but I don't think the jart ban was until eigth grade. So no causality there. Pop Rocks causing internal explosions and spider eggs in Bubble Yum occured somewhere between Clackers and Jarts. :-)

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taneliv 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

LOL, what I did just read? I did not understand the concrete nouns in your comment, except for "girl". The "spider eggs" you mention do not seem to be the ones I thought.

Without searching on the internet, I wouldn't even know the context on the level of which decade or country. Fascinating!

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initramfs 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

nor with clappers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJBAnr1lgPg https://www.curiousmindsbusybags.com/products/new-large-hand...

	▲	balamatom 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		nor with the Clacks, the telegraph system of Discworld.

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FMecha 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

The original form of clackers had a popularity in Indonesia and Philippines where it's named latto-latto.

There was also a safer revival of clackers in North America in the 90s, where the balls are attached to a handle.

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tim333 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I thought clunker and figured it must be about car reliability.

Even now I've figured it's about AI, I still don't really get it. Is it supposed to be funny?

Re funny, I think the Onion does better https://theonion.com/ai-chatbot-obviously-trying-to-wind-dow...

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balamatom 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Probably from the same onomatopoeia, though. A car-sized machine makes more of a clunk, while a person-sized machine makes more of a clank, when you smash either with that old monkey wrench and extreme prejudice