When the trend started a few months ago, it was usually just a humble bean sprout clipped to the hair and erect like a little green flagpole.... Now heads are bristling with clover, sunflowers, chrysanthemums, lavender, mushrooms, chilies, cherries, gourds and pine trees....IN THE COMMENTS: MadisonMan said: "Should I wear my deely-boppers in a show of support -- while playing with my klick-klacks?"
The most common explanation on the streets was that the floral fascinators just looked cute — “meng meng da,” in a cloying term made popular on the Internet.
Oh, yeah, deely-boppers... That name always bothered me. I think of Dealey Plaza. But what were klick-klacks? Hmmm...
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Very interesting. But Americans post gang killer videos.
Should I wear my deely-boppers in a show of support -- while playing with my klick-klacks?
It's not individualism when you do the same thing as everyone else.
That said, I think they're kinda cute
Foliage bukkake.
Internet equivalent of a gateway drug.
I am Laslo.
Dr Seuss should sue.
It is cute though. I suppose anything cute can be characterized as "cloying" but since this is the first time I have seen it, I am going with "cute."
Hair feng shui.
They are lucky to have a well run communist government.
From what I've heard, Chinese cities are awful-- hardly any greenspace at all. So maybe this soothes the soul that yearns for open fields?
Men Without Hats' "Living In China
"They got the red book
They got the new look
The little people that are living in China
They got the answers to all the questions
All the little people that are living in China
The solution is revolution
For all the little people that are living in China
Got ping pong egg foo yung
All of the people that are living in China "
Prescient.
I am Laslo.
Kroger no longer carries mung beans, so I stopped growing them long ago.
Those are pussy click-clacks.
In my day...
there was no handle or hand guard. It was just two balls of easily broken clear plastic tied together by a string. Eye and skull injuries ensued until the balls-and-string device ended-up tied around a high tension wire for years until the string rotted in the sun and the elements.
And we liked it!
EDH- yep, I remember the simple ball and string version too. If I remember correctly they were pulled from the market because of injuries.
As for Deely Boppers, I recall a toy by that name which was a set of interconnecting plastic flower disc shapes (sort of daisies that fit together at 90 degree angles.) My memeorandum may be faulty because I'm not seeing any google hits to support it, but that's what I always think of when I hear that term.
We were more easily entertained in those days. Ours didn't have the fancy hand-protecting handle, though. The strings were just attached to a plastic ring at the top.
Time to go paint some faces on rocks.
My god. I hadn't thought about that toy in probably 40 years, and even the video didn't remind me of them because it's so different with the stick. I never knew they were called Klick-Klacks. I just remember heavy red acrylic balls, connected by string to a metal ring in the center, probably two feet long end to end. So dangerous. How did we survive in the '70s, with that and a Strange Change Machine in the toy box and Jarts out on the lawn? Parents today would faint.
Here we go. Sadly, they've already been sold.
Kerbangers! They advertised on TV.
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