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Skip-It, the hula hoop for your ankle that tripped up kids all through the 80s and 90s.
Skip-It looked like an 80s plastic neon version of a prison-style ball and chain, and it was a children's torture device that brought hours upon hours of simple entertainment. I tried to conquer Skip-It twice, but quit that shit when I almost left half of my face on the asphalt. It was much more fun to sit on the curb and watch other kids almost eat cement and break their ankles. You could tell who the Skip-It masters were, because the skin on their ankle was also chaffed. Skip-Its should've come with anti-chafing cream and condom socks. But the best part of a Skip-It was the ball counter. You didn't even have to know how to count to use it!
Wikipedia says Skip-It was buried in 2009, but I'll remember it forever thanks to its theme song. The Skip-It song is like musical herpes. Every now and again, it will break out in my brain and never leave:
Skiiiiip it, Skiiiiiiip it... Shit, it's never leaving.
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I remember seeing this still in the package at my bff's house. Her little sister had put on weight and thier mom bought it cuz she was thinking "you in danger (of getting fat) girl!"
She never did take it out of the damn package. And I wanted it!
Love,
Mabel
I loved this thing- I used to rock it all the time as well as jumping rope, jumping on a trampoline at my cousins' house after school for HOURS until my mom picked me up, etc. Now I walk up two flights of stairs and I need a moment. I'm training to run in 5ks and eventually a 10k too though!
Lindsay Lohan's costar's nalgas flew her so close to the sun that they both exploded into stardust that still lights up Hollywood.
Had this hot slut in the mid-late 90's...the greatest feat were skip it handstands...my record was 29
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Someone by the bar keeps looking at us dancing. I see him starring at me, I see what he wants be
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Mr. Mercury ♥
I was the shit at skip it. I got the counter so high it went back to 0. Weird, because now I can't walk through a doorway without smashing my face. I think the head injury and the booze fucked up my skip it game.
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You dumb bitch, I am home.-MK
I think I am also a donkey. I do not know what happened when I left the bar, but I am seriously in love with the donkey.
Submitted by Orangina on Sat, 11/24/2012 - 5:39pm.
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And then came the San Francisco General Hospital bill. He probably wasn't happy about that beast either (I'm calling the bill a beast).
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True dat! lol
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I've written a letter to MK...saying...I...love...youuuuuu.
@Super Stew
LOL I feel your pain!
I was a competitive swimmer back in the day. Put me or my fellow co-whores around ANYTHING with water and we were AWESOME. Dry land? Not so much. We all should have been duct-daped with Nerf Balls, accessorized with dark sunglasses and a black cane sporting a white tip!
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I wouldn't have been good at Skip It. If I look at my feet when I am going up or downstairs, I get confused and try to pick up the wrong food and end up stumbling or falling.
Sigh. And I was a competetive gymnast in high school Go figure.
For me it's the Slinky song and it makes me want to sing it. "Slinky, it's Slinky, for fun it's wonderful toy, it's Slinky, it's Slinky, it's fun for a girl and a boy."
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My favorite toy as a kid. It had a counter and everything.
Submitted by Mani6 on Sat, 11/24/2012 - 4:33pm.
My sister had one, which I of course kept stealing and using it for a weapon to smack my brothers heads with.
heh, that was my first thought when I watched the commercial - use it like bolas gauchos use on the pampas of Argentina.
Much too uncoordinated for the Skip-It. I loved my Pogo Ball though! I did breaks my sister's kitty's tail with my Pogo Ball. : (
There was a version of this in the 70s, too, by a different maker, I want to say Romper Room to go along with those diabolical Romper Stompers. Blessedly, I was too old for this shit by then and just watched the little kids fall on their asses.
I remember Skip-it! There were two toys that I wanted badly and never got: Big Wheel and the Barbie's Dream House. My mom said the Big Wheel was for boys, so I got a purple trike instead. I got the Barbie Townhouse, but I was almost 12 when I got it.
My favorite birthday gift ever was a pair of skates--the real old school ones that had the key.
I had a skip it for about a week until the ball part hit a pole and shattered. lol
Submitted by didimao on Sat, 11/24/2012 - 5:47pm.
LMFAO -- Action Jackson!
http://www.skooldays.com/categories/toys/ty1099.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYXeHtRaRX0
All 90s food was insanely-colored corn syrup water made to taste like blue raspberry or cotton candy, but most 90s kids were rail thin because of crap like the Skip It.
Catholic school could only afford one Skip It for all of us, so on the yearly basis that you got the Skip It, you usually ate pavement and never wanted to use it again.
I got a skip it on my 8th birthday and I loved it. I thought I was so cool using it in the front of my driveway as cars drove by. Totally forgot about it until now. Thanks MK!
What about all the pervy sounding toys back then? That we never realized were pervy until later as adults...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQY3TFokPZU&feature=endscreen&NR=1
"The first to get their balls in Mr. Bucket wins!!!"
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"And it don't matter who you are, if I'm doin my job, its your resolve that breaks..Cause the hook brings you back, I ain't tellin you no lie. The hook brings you back, on that you can rely."
http://www.squidoo.com/the-best-70s-and-80s-toys
http://www.skooldays.com/blog/toys-in-the-70s/
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What in the praying mantis crackhooker hell is this?! - MK 9/09
Traumatizing Flashback Time!
I had a version of this in the '70's. I got tripped up, fell and broke my arm. My father had to lose a day's pay to take me to the ER at San Francisco General.The only day of work he missed. He never let me forget that until the day he died.
THANKS MK!
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And then came the San Francisco General Hospital bill. He probably wasn't happy about that beast either (I'm calling the bill a beast).
I LOVED this thing. I never seemed to have trouble with tripping. I was also good at pogo stick and stilts. My parents got a little crazy that I could do these things and got me a unicycle. I fell off first thing and didn't ever get back on. Nothing broken, just didn't like it.
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This was such amazing exercise! Ooooh, I want one.
I would have broken my neck playing Skip-it. I was a danger to myself and others with a regular jump rope.
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"You will drink the black sperm of my vengeance!" Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
LOVE the Reeboks they are wearing!!!! I had two pair of shoes back in the early eighties- white Reeboks and hot pink Converse high tops!
But NOTHING will come close to beating Super Elastic Bubble Plastic!!! Its by Wham-O!!
http://www.retroland.com/super-elastic-bubble-plastic/
Traumatizing Flashback Time!
I had a version of this in the '70's. I got tripped up, fell and broke my arm. My father had to lose a day's pay to take me to the ER at San Francisco General.The only day of work he missed. He never let me forget that until the day he died.
THANKS MK!
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I've written a letter to MK...saying...I...love...youuuuuu.
Back in the 70's Skipits were Lemontwists. They were awesome, or so I thought. Until my friends asked me, "Are you going to Lemontwist to school?" "Is that your new Lemontwisting car?" "Maybe you should Lemontwist over to HotSlut's house and ask him to Lemontwist in the park with you." Poor Lemontwist sat in the basement after that. Little did I know 30 yrs later it would be a hotter slut than that dude!
My sister had one, which I of course kept stealing and using it for a weapon to smack my brothers heads with.
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I hated this thing, along with hoola hoops, double dutch, yo yos, pogo sticks, and all of the other toys that I was bad at.
I had a hot pink one in the mid 90s. Ugh, I want one again. I was thinking about this awhile ago.
HAHAHA YASSS! Skiiip it, SKIIIP IT! Thanks for that MK
I don't remember the item or the commercial. The announcer (in the commercial) sounds familiar, though.
Submitted by Spoiled on Sat, 11/24/2012 - 3:24pm.
um hmmm. yep. uh huh. Footsie. chipped tooth from sidewalk face plant trying to spin one of those gd things on each ankle while hopping down the sidewalk
hoppity horse!! yeah, my parents wouldn't get me one. *side eyes cemeteries* but there was another thing like that with a handle instead of the horse head. i think i may have had that thing
ok, does anyone remember the horse that came with a suit of armor and medieval weapons and stuff? loved that thing!
"Voodoo is forgetting who's the john and who's the whore." MK, 3/20/12
I was never good at the Skip It. Too uncoordinated :(
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Submitted by P.T.Bull on Tue, 09/25/2012 - 10:33pm.
"This bitch is crazier than a pillowcase full of clear-level scientologist possums."
I fucking LOVED skip-its in elementary school! My best friend had the moon shoes and I didn't find them very enjoyable. Awkward and clunky. Also loved the Pogo Ball.
I loved my Hoppity Horse. And that Zim Zam tennis ball tethered to a stick game.
I had a Lemon Twist!! I loved that thing. Kept me busy for hours. Entertainment was so simple then.
Submitted by harperharper on Sat, 11/24/2012 - 3:33pm.
Dear bored; my mom wouldn't pop for a skip it either- I also remember the kinder gentler70's version
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Maybe our parents knew the end result and didn't want to waste the ineviable visit to the emergency room. *sigh*
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"And it don't matter who you are, if I'm doin my job, its your resolve that breaks..Cause the hook brings you back, I ain't tellin you no lie. The hook brings you back, on that you can rely."
You are probably right about that. If their is one thing , besides spending money on toys, that my mom hated it was spending money on doctors!
Submitted by Spoiled on Sat, 11/24/2012 - 3:26pm.
Bored, I got my kids those Moonshoes, but they never used them. I think they were way too big and awkward. I seem to remember some twisted ankles.
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Twisted ankles are no bueno. There seemed to be a lot of those kinds of toys,that or they were defective(teddy ruxpin), and I was so jelly because I wanted them!:(
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"And it don't matter who you are, if I'm doin my job, its your resolve that breaks..Cause the hook brings you back, I ain't tellin you no lie. The hook brings you back, on that you can rely."
Dear bored; my mom wouldn't pop for a skip it either- I also remember the kinder gentler70's version
No. I have enough trouble functioning with the 11 wides as it is. I don't need to have balls flailing around my ankles.
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Bored, I got my kids those Moonshoes, but they never used them. I think they were way too big and awkward. I seem to remember some twisted ankles.
I always wanted a skip it....did I get one? No! I also wanted a Bop it and those Moonshoes(I wanted those Moon shoes sooooooooooooooooooooo bad) and never got them. :(
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"And it don't matter who you are, if I'm doin my job, its your resolve that breaks..Cause the hook brings you back, I ain't tellin you no lie. The hook brings you back, on that you can rely."
My sister had the 70s version of this, which was much kinder and gentler. It was a red plastic bell instead of that weighted block. That and my Hoppity Horse kept me occupied for hours.
ETA: Photos! It was called a Footsie:
http://www.mortaljourney.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Footsie.png
Hoppity Horse:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/The_Childrens_Museum_...
Argh! My brain!
I skipped the Skip-It way back when. Regular jump ropes tripped me plenty, never mind double-Dutch.
These and Pogo Balls were the only reason I wasn't a major heffer as a kid. I could EAT and EAT and EAT all day but it never mattered because I was skipping and bouncing my ass off. Though I have no clue how there weren't more broken ankles on the playground. I could whip that thing around 90 miles an hour.
God bless the skip-it