Clackers or Klackers or Klaquers & Cherries

Hey! Our friends told us that since the Catster & Dogster codes had changed that we needed to check out our pages & make sure the writing could still be read & that the page actually loaded & that falling objects still fell from the top of the page & not at the bottom or in a straight line in a very small line down the bottom of the page. Uh, falling objects? Can you find us some falling objects? Okay, our people are ill so could you just give us some codes? Don't suppose they have any toys? Oh yeah, great cause Morse's Mom played with Clackers when she was a kid too & so when she saw these things that were supposed to be cherries she said oh wait, these look just like Clackers! That was one of the toys we named & she laughed & said oh I kind of doubt anyone would have those! These look similar to them, but the strings aren't quite long enough -- they had long strings & a loop at the top big enough for a couple of fingers to fit into them & were supposed to be made of high density (not computer diskettes or tv or CD's or DVD's as those didn't exist then) plastic & to be unbreakable & then later much to my human male's regrets & his sister's the toys were recalled because some very energetic kids bouncing them off walls & other objects as kids will do, managed to break them & shatter them into pieces & get injured. Cat Darn shame too cause those were really fun to bat around the floor when the kids weren't around, were away at school or wherever & didn't take those two plastic things like the large superball but maybe a little smaller on their string with them. Loved it when they left the Clackers on their door too cause those were really fun to bat back & forth & they would make really cat cool loud noises too! They bounced down the stairs with wonderful great thuds too & were fun to chase down the stairs too!

The object of clackers was exactly what you think, to bounce them together & learn to do tricks with them like to make them bounce together on the down & to swing all the way up over the fingers & bounce together. Of course my human male child said the reason they were actually probably banned was because they made such excellent weapons & kids were hitting each other in the head with them on the school bus & at the bus stop & at school so that they got banned from school & school events, which was why they hung on the door when the kids were at school. His were cherry red & red was one of his favorite colors at the time -- yeah, he was asking his Dad if he could paint his room red & then Chinese lacquered red & then if not then maybe black & red striped or no? Then how about a checkerboard pattern & we can find or make some giant checkers & attach them to the wall? NO! Humph! You're no fun! That's not fair! You said I could paint my room any color I wanted! I still don't see how painting his room a dulled white was rebellious but he sure thought it was! But I digress....

I loved jumping up in the air after those Clackers because they were just so much fun & one of the Russian Blue cats was there or that other oh, what's the name of the French breed with the fur like wool? Remember that & how upset the kids would get at being head butted because man oh man cat oh cat how all those grey cats liked to head butt. The grey cat, maybe Ratt who was a British Blue breed & a gift that couldn't be refused, would head butt them hard in the chest or actually in the head trying to get those clackers away from them & then he would grab the braided cord string in his mouth & run with them & wouldn't want to give them back. I tried to tell him to chill about those head butts & maybe he would get to stay, but then he would head butt me! So I just left him alone about it & tried to get him locked away in the bedroom or bathroom while they were playing by yowling & yowling at Mother until she locked me out of her room & put something against the door -- preferably with him in the room because he was a real fighter, just loved to wrestle & play cat boxing & he could knock me across the room. Those muscular grey cats just never seemed to know their own strength either....

My male child boy human had red clackers with a braided black cord stream & my female child had purple ones with a red braided string & with red balls inside or that's what they looked like resembling polka dots though she said hearts. Didn't care cause those things were just such fun & the kids would get so annoyed and so would their friends when I came out of nowhere & jumped into the air to bat at the balls on a string & messed up their clacker games though sometimes I made them go up over the hand & clack together. Wasn't that a fun game?! Yeah.... Miss being an earth bound cat sometimes...
Thomas the Great Hunter from the sky