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0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
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#1: Mar 15th 2012 at 9:30:50 PM

As of Page 2, this is now a thread dedicated to fads in general.

Ahahaha, trope names. But seriously, DOES anyone remember Pogs, as in what the hell their purpose was or why people even thought they were worth collecting? I remember that my family and I would collect them way back when they, well, existed, but heck if I know why.

edited 18th Mar '12 7:41:21 PM by 0dd1

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#2: Mar 15th 2012 at 9:38:05 PM

There was some sort of game involving stacking them and seeing how many you could knock over or something like that.

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#4: Mar 15th 2012 at 9:40:22 PM

Yes, I remember Pogs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogs

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Aondeug Oh My from Our Dreams Since: Jun, 2009
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#5: Mar 15th 2012 at 9:53:48 PM

I've seen pogs and things suspiciously similar to these magical disks. Does this count?

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#6: Mar 15th 2012 at 10:11:13 PM

We fooled around with them for a bit ourselves, when we lived somewhere else. Haven't seen them in forever, though.

Landstander God Of Cake from Somewhere else Since: Jan, 2001
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#7: Mar 15th 2012 at 10:53:38 PM

They were the shit when I was 10. There were pogs and slammers, with which you hit a stack of logs and... Something was supposed to happen. I remember holographic pogs were awesomer than awesome.

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0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
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#8: Mar 15th 2012 at 10:56:48 PM

Ooh, yeah, I'd forgotten about those holographic ones until now!

I know I have a tube full of 'em somewhere. It used to be in my closet, but my closet's a mess, so I don't know if it's still there.

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Nyarly Das kann doch nicht sein! from Saksa Since: Feb, 2012
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#9: Mar 16th 2012 at 12:11:10 AM

Yeah, I do.

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#11: Mar 16th 2012 at 2:04:13 AM

Of course! In my time pogs weren't so big. Until Pokemon Pogs went out. You would get them out of potato chip bags, and then bet them against other little kids. I didnt play so well, but did I ever put my heart into collecting them. My favorite one was a extra-thick gyarados that made it easier to win when playing pogs.

0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
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#12: Mar 16th 2012 at 2:11:48 AM

Odd, I was really into Pokemon but don't remember Pokemon pogs...

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#13: Mar 16th 2012 at 2:14:27 AM

Maybe they where just a Mexican thing? Over here they were called "Tazos", but they are basically the same idea only translated and adapted to the pokemon craze.

Ah, the good old times. Back in my day the church/concerned parent hivemind was against the pokemon thing. They were weird hearsay rumors and massive pokemon burnings and all that. Ah, mindless controversy.

....OH SHIT I'M OLD.

edited 16th Mar '12 2:17:19 AM by ElRigo

0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
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#14: Mar 16th 2012 at 3:05:44 AM

Hey, every generation needs a hobby. Back in the day that was my parents' day, Beatles records were the firewood of choice for Moral Guardians.

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#15: Mar 16th 2012 at 4:37:30 AM

Pogs...why did you have to remind me of the fad from my 4th/5th grade years?

Premonition45 Since: Mar, 2011
#16: Mar 16th 2012 at 8:53:42 AM

I remember a friend got her eye scratched with them. So I stayed away from them.

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#17: Mar 16th 2012 at 9:57:42 AM

Is your friend Klutzy?

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#18: Mar 16th 2012 at 9:58:24 AM

I think I saw them...once, at summer camp.

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#19: Mar 16th 2012 at 12:53:20 PM

I used to have a few that I got as a promotion for something. I think they were Spider-Man.

Stupid doomed timeline...
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#20: Mar 16th 2012 at 1:24:05 PM

I think I ended up finding one of those somewhere once, or at least something like one. I didn't really know what it was or what it was for, but it was shiny and looked interesting so I kept it. It was holographic, and I think it might have been Pokemon themed. I think I still have it somewhere.

edited 16th Mar '12 1:25:46 PM by KatanaCat

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Premonition45 Since: Mar, 2011
#21: Mar 16th 2012 at 5:06:59 PM

[up][up][up][up] Hell no! Well, it happened when we were 6, so it was pretty scary.

edited 16th Mar '12 5:07:21 PM by Premonition45

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#22: Mar 16th 2012 at 5:08:01 PM

Yeah, I still cant figure out how someone can get hurt with a pog unless its on purpose.

MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#23: Mar 16th 2012 at 11:56:30 PM

I remember having some, but I don't think I ever played an actual game of pogs. The "slammer" I had is tied to a memorable example of my dad's occasional bouts of Everyone Is Satan in Hell about things I was into when I was growing up - it had a peace sign on one side and a skull and crossbones on the other, and everyone knows a skull and crossbones means poison, so obviously my pog carried the message that "peace is poison".

Also, I occasionally read "prog" (as in Progressive Rock) as "pog". They should have Prog Pogs, with like, Yes album covers on them or something.

edited 16th Mar '12 11:58:12 PM by MikeK

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#24: Mar 18th 2012 at 6:19:48 AM

Yeah they used to have pogs in chips too when I was a littlely. can't say I cared much for them.

now Oddbodz, they were the shit.

edited 18th Mar '12 6:27:54 AM by joeyjojo

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#25: Mar 18th 2012 at 10:09:14 AM

I had some Pogs back in the day, but never played whatever game it was that you were supposed to play with them, just thought they looked cool.

Man, this makes me think that maybe we should have a thread for old fads.

Somehow you know that the time is right.

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