How the little balls got into hula hoops? Okay, it's actually a couple of steel balls, like BBs.
It turns out that the original hula hoop had no sound effects. The first rackety hula hoops were called Shoop Shoop Hula Hoops, and the sound effects were added by bits of walnut shell, apparently. Which later led to the steel balls.
The famous eskimo words for snow are: kaniktshaq, (snow); qanik, (falling snow); anijo, (snow on the ground); hiko, (ice); tsikut, (large broken up masses of ice); hikuliaq, (thin ice); quahak, (new ice without snow); kanut, (new ice with snow); pugtaq, (drift ice); peqalujaq, (old ice); manelaq, (pack ice); ivuneq, (high pack ice); maneraq, (smooth ice); akuvijarjuak, (thin ice on the sea); kuhugaq, (icicle); nilak, (fresh water ice); and tugartaq, (firm winter ice).
There is no word for snow which falls for no reason when it is 45 degrees outside and then melts immediately. We had some more this morning, my kids are so disappointed. Snow on the way to school and walking down to the pond to feed the ducks in the afternoon. It jus' ain't natural.
Hey, I was bored this evening and went poking about on the Internet. A great thing, the www. Just think how much poorer we all would be without knowing abotu the walnut shells in the hula hoops.
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Jeannine
Do you remember making our own hula hoops At Abingdon? I remember we made some of them nosey but I don't remember what we put in them. I'm sure it wasn't BB's because I was one of those no BB gun mothers.
Love Mom
Beans. We used dried kidney beans, to be specific. I asked if we could use limas because I hated them but the only ones we had were canned.
No, I don't remember anything about that, why do you ask?
*grin*
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