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Popular Toys Throughout the Ages
Ant writes "MSNBC has a story on the 'must-have' items from decades past. From the article: 'With so many new toys and games hitting store shelves every year, it may be a little surprising that many of the most popular playthings are actually quite old. But people have been playing for a very long time. In 4000 B.C., Babylonians played a board game that was probably the ancestor of chess and checkers. Stone yo-yos were first used in ancient Greece around 1000 B.C. Kites appeared in China around the same time, though historians speculate that they have probably been flown since before recorded history.'"
So it's still being used for training the U.S. military?
Yep, because everybody knows that all middle eastern countries look the same. Saudi Arabia, Iraq, what's the difference?
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Nice troll. Oh, and you're full of shit - you made the whole thing up. OK, maybe it's what you wanted to say. See, no cynical geek has the balls to actually say what he thinks because he knows that everybody around him will just laugh at him and call him an asshole. And that's terribly destructive to the fragile psyche of the self-centered cynical geek. So, they just go around telling their friends (and posting on /.) what they would have said if they would have had a solid brass pair. But instead of saying that they would have told that Marine off, they tell their buddies that they did tell the Marine off. Oh, and that they used their double black belt ju-jitsu/karate/kung-fu/anime martial arts move and left him bleeding on the floor.
/. helps you out, so we understand. You're special in that way.
Yeah, you want to be the cynical elite, but when you're pale, fat and unemployed and living in your mother's basement, it's tough for you to have a strong sense of a positive self image. We all know that posting your tripe on
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