Talk:Pogo stick

Name Origin Dispute

There are two versions of how this item was named in this article. Was it after the little German girl (unlikely) or the company (more likely)? Sailorknightwing 18:03, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Spitzmesser's motorized pogo stick?

Any thoughts on the veracity of http://bpmlegal.com/wpogo.html ? If true it would be an amusing addition...

Links to patents are broken

The links to the pogo stick patents at the foot of this page result in the msg "No patents have matched your query"

2793036 appears in about.com illustration as a 1957 patent, not 1919. Earlier than '57, pogo sticks usually had single vertical handles above a single spring in a cylinder. There is another patent for the pneumatic piston/cylinder spring type, which appeared on the market around 1957.

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I have found Hansburg applied for a patent in 1919. He received a patent for an improved pogo stick design in 1955 {todayinsci.com/5/5_21.htm}.

System of a Down

OMG, the song is not literally about a pogo stick... it's a euphemism for a penis... --Mynabull 19:51, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Yeah I was gonna say that too. According to this article; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo_%28dance%29 , the song is actually about group sex. Teh darkcloud 22:52, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Doesn't matter. It mentions a pogo stick, as a euphamism or not. Sailorknightwing 18:04, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Cleanup on Aisle 12!

Someone just killed the entire article for the pleasure of saying a few words with no meaning. Someone need to fix this up. ELV

William Heard

Appears to be a Wikipedia prank. No record of him as a pogo sticker outside of prank-style webpages and Wikipedia pages. -- 69.143.115.66 05:02, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

I can find no references to either this movie or either person listed. Unless some citations can be provided, I'm removing this section. --Visual77 00:03, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Picture

I think that the article deserves a better picture. Moreover the guy in the picture is not actually using the pogo stick as claimed by the picture text, he only holds the pogo stick.

Los Gayos

Los Gaoyos are not the u.k band that recorded "late in the day". It was Supergrass. I doubt "los Gayos" is even a real band.... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 222.154.92.13 (talk) 05:10, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Incorrect history

The history of the pogo stick seems to be incomplete and innacurate. Pogo sticks could not have been invented by the Russian military in WWII. In addition to the rather absurd notion that a pogo stick could be used to flee from German tanks, pogos were around for decades before WWII. There was a patent application in 1919. They were used by the Ziegfeld (sp?) Follies in the 20's, and there are many more examples.

THe stuff about cold war reasearch into jumping out of planes without parachutes seems rather silly as well. I wonder if this whole history was written as a bad joke.

I don't have time to write a revision to the article right now. But it badly needs one. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mike hintze (talk • contribs) 20:58, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

Indeed. It was introduced in this edit. Utter nonsense.--84.175.222.164 (talk) 08:55, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

Thanks. I looked at that edit, and there appear to be a few other false or at lest questionable changes there. E.g. the addition of "Pogo Bob" to the list of video games (no such game appears to exist), and changing "United Kingdom" to "Soviet Union." So I reversed those as well. There are also some other questionable aspects of this article. I'll try to do some more work on it soon. Mike hintze (talk) 15:35, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

I've removed it all. For crying out loud people, please just remove obvious vandalism and nonsense on sight. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 22:19, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Proof of the origin of the pogo stick

The inventor George B Hansburg was a contestant on the game show "what`s my line" in 1959, at the end of this show he was asked to tell the history of the invention (pretty much as stated in the article). If you look at the end of the youtube video of this broadcast (begins at 6:50) he tells this very story in his own words.

WML 1959 George B Hansburg Pogo Stick —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.49.211.46 (talk) 23:18, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

Proof of the origin of pogo sticks? Evidence of the origin of the pogo stick fable, I'd say. 75.45.106.140 (talk) 04:13, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

Variant with small ball

A - probably - PVC-Ball with a diameter of about 16-18 cm underneath a plate from plastics at the bottom of a similar stick works as progressive spring to store energy and repell the - not to heavy - person up again. Seen 2012 in the fundus of an artist in Austria, sold possibly 15 or 20 years earlier. --Helium4 (talk) 09:40, 13 December 2012 (UTC)

Politician on a pogo stick

Is there a suitably available picture of the 'best known example of a politician (whether or not wearing a bowler hat) on a pogo stick'? 80.254.147.68 (talk) 13:02, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

See [1] for further details. 80.254.147.68 (talk) 15:12, 17 January 2013 (UTC)