[jimmydddd]

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. :-)

[taneliv]

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!

[initramfs]

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

[balamatom]

nor with the Clacks, the telegraph system of Discworld.

[initramfs]

nice to know!