Pogo Sticks

Anoba · Post by **Anoba** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 21:16

I'm really a fan of the standard looking, silver colored, old school pogo sticks. like this one. -> http://www.vaiden.net/vintage_pogo_stick1.jpg
I really want a good friend of mine to buy a pogo stick so that he be the only guy in town in hops to campus, smoking a cigarette, and taking swigs of his whiskey. He's a good guy. And a fine artist.

If anyone has a pogo stick and a little brother (neither of which do I have) could you please get him on the pogo stick in some outdoor settings, preferably woodsy and rocky ones? If you could make these photos for me, I'd like to use them to help illustrate the Keen fiction piece I've been working on. For that matter, any kind of pictures of a Billy looking boy, especially ones that seem to pertain to my story (if youve not read it, I could breifly explain the settings and circumstances to you in a PM). There's okay random pics on the net which is what I've mostly been using, but for Billy I want a more gallant effort put forth.

Feel free to just post back about pogo sticks in general. I think they're a great discussion topic.

Anoba · Post by **Anoba** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 13:00

I'm really great at starting a conversation I guess. Here is a pogo-stick myth. One of some popularity I think.

"There is a legend that, 'either George Hansburg or a anonymous German was traveling through Burma when he meet a poor farmer with a daughter named Pogo. Pogo wanted to go to temple every day to pray, but couldn't because she had no shoes to wear for the long walk through the mud and rocks. So the poor farmer built a jumping stick for her, and when George Hansburg or the anonymous German returned home, he made and sold a similar jumping stick of his own.' " (cited below)

I like that. It's a good origins myth. The site goes on to insist that it isn't true, which isn't too surprising but it is too bad. It would probably make a good Christopher Walken movie.

http://inventors.about.com/library/inve ... _stick.htm

StupidBunny · Post by **StupidBunny** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 15:54

Pogo sticks are bouncy. That pretty much sums up my thoughts about pogo sticks.

Oh, and they make me think of Commander Keen.

MortimerInBlack · Post by **MortimerInBlack** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 0:13

A long time ago, I had a small pogo stick, and i liked Keen so i liked it. It was noisy, and bruised my knees, and when the rubber bottom came off it marked up the patio. But it was cool. I remember my personal record was over 200 jumps before falling off.

Toomuchsparetime · Post by **Toomuchsparetime** » Wed Mar 04, 2009 4:43

I had a pogo stick back in the day. The "foot" (the bit with the spring coiled around it, whatever that part is called) got bent out of shape though.

Gr1nreaper · Post by **Gr1nreaper** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 14:22

I've wanted a pogo stick for years, but the price seems outrageous, and I'm a bit worried about how difficult it is to ride. I know someone here has one, so perhaps they could enlighten us on how steep the learning curve is, and how many scraped elbows/knees/foreheads, to expect in the process?

Post by **KeenRush** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 15:36

I won't get one until you can jump five times your own height with it.

MortimerInBlack · Post by **MortimerInBlack** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 22:40

You can easily do that on Mars; no need for a superpowerful one

Commander Spleen · Post by **Commander Spleen** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 0:43

I'll have to get some photos of my friend's pogo that he built himself. It's pretty chunky and works quite well. Superbly dangerous.

Toomuchsparetime · Post by **Toomuchsparetime** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 21:06

That myth about the original pogo stick being used as a means of transportation to go to temple is a great tie-in with Commander Keen's "Holy" Pogo stick.

And also with the pic of Pogo-Pope in CK10YO.

Post by **KeenRush** » Fri Mar 06, 2009 22:37

Hey, yeah! I wonder if the iD team knew about that myth.

MortimerInBlack · Post by **MortimerInBlack** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 3:14

Toomuchsparetime wrote: And also with the pic of Pogo-Pope in CK10YO.

What is that? A mod?

Genius314 · Post by **Genius314** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 3:34

MortimerInBlack wrote:
Toomuchsparetime wrote: And also with the pic of Pogo-Pope in CK10YO.
What is that? A mod?

Commander Keen: 10 Years On

(Btw, I actually had never read through the entire thing until a few days ago...

)

Post by **Levellass** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 22:14

I had a pogo stick once, second hand, and a skateboard. Both I never really learned to do anything with, a few injuries was enough to deter me. (Even the Bloogs do not fear me.)