Skip-it
By Lisa Stemmons
When someone decided jump-roping was too old school for the children of the ‘90s, the wondrous Skip-It was created, and the toy world hasn’t been the same since. It’s so simple that it’s frustrating I didn’t come up with it first (even though I wasn’t even a fetus at its inception).
Simply place the small plastic hoop around your ankle and find the most comfortable direction to spin it around in a 360-degree rotation. It’s a child’s first opportunity to impress peers. The speed of your Skip-It, moving while using it or doing a little jig, are all next-level skills that were sure to wow the admiring audience.
If you don’t mind the inevitable chopping at the ankles, the Skip-It is a great tool to get your sweat on, even as an adult. There were several models of the Skip-It. However, the version we have come to know and love was put on the map when the counter was added. Later editions include glitter as well as streamers, but you can never go wrong investing in the original.
To my surprise, Skip-It and Twister procreated to produce the “Twister Rave Skip-It” in 2013. For a mere $11.98 at Toys ‘R’ Us, you can relive two of your favorite childhood games in the weirdest spin-off of the 21st century.
TAG body spray
By Jaylyn Cook
Gentlemen, here are a couple of pro tips: If you want others to be frequently offended by your odor, keep wearing Axe body spray. If you want to make people physically ill by the way you smell, try to find a can of TAG body spray online.
People can go on for hours about how noxious the smell of Axe is, but many forget the abominable aromas that came packed inside each can of TAG. Each scent, no matter what it was, smelled like someone farted in a glass, lit it on fire, put out the flames with gasoline and then farted in the glass again.
Can you imagine being in a high school locker room with a bunch of sweaty dudes who have to drown themselves in TAG to mask the gym smell? I can, and I assure you that walking around the hallways smelling like a Dow Chemical plant is not the ideal way to endear yourself to others.
TAG was taken off the shelves in 2010, thankfully saving future generations from making the bad decision of purchasing it. Now, if we could only send every can of Axe back to Hell from whence it came, the world will be a much better (and less smelly) place.
