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Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials
AMAT 223.31-3.2%3:59 PM EST
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To: Gottfried who wrote (54701)10/26/2001 9:05:48 PM
From: Tito L. Nisperos Jr.  Read Replies (1) of 70976
 
Gottfried, OT RE " ... the yo-yo was used in the Philippines as a weapon. Made of stone, it weighed about four pounds and was attached to 20 feet of rope"

Thanks for the Info! It must be very painful to the unknowing opponent to be hit and hit again with a 4 pound stone!

This is the first time I learned about it. I wonder who among our Ancestors first used them as a Weapon: whether the Aetas (black), Malayan/Indonesianm, Hindu, Arabic (we got Old alphabets that look like Arabic with variations or unique in each Dialect), Chinese, Mongolian (they made the Rice Terraces carved around the edges of the mountains that look like Stairway to the Clouds), Spanish or Americans or other kinds of people (we have now 111 Dialects, only 70 when I left the Philippines some 27 years ago).

Yes, Gottfried, now I know why I always talk about the AMAT Kid playing the YoYo while negotiating the StairCase! Probably it's in my Gene to "hit" repeatedly the Opponent (AMAT Bear) with my YoYo talks.

I first learned the Yo-Yo was invented in the Philippines right here in the U.S. while watching a game show. It was related that A Filipino guy introduced the game to the World when he played and Wowed a crowd in New York at the turn of the last century. It was made of wood though --- the Yo-Yo he used.
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