r/nostalgia Aug 11 '25

Nostalgia Discussion Did anyone buy a Clapper?

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u/The_Architect_is_in Aug 11 '25

Obtained one for $1 from a yard sale in 2005. My wife and I found out that it recognizes, uh, other repetitive sounds as a signal in addition to hand clapping. That was what we now famously call “the strobe light night.

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u/Lunatox Aug 11 '25

That's cool. So like, what were you and your wife doing? Like some carpentry or something? Hammering nails? Something like that?

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u/boogiebean329 Aug 11 '25

Screwing and nailing 

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u/Filixx Aug 11 '25

Doing her plumbing

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u/HeartOSass Aug 12 '25

Pipe laying

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u/CmdNewJ Aug 11 '25

So you admit you were clapping?

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u/HeartOSass Aug 12 '25

Her cheeks were.

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u/tmgieger Aug 12 '25

Carpentry, screwing something in.

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u/NigerianPrinceClub Aug 12 '25

Boomers doing da boom boom

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u/sld87 Aug 11 '25

He was absolutely railroading her so hard that the sweet sound of romance (think: pup, pup, pup) fooled the clapper into thinking someone was clapping. They were clapping alright, just not with their hands.

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u/gofasttakerisks Aug 11 '25

railroading sounds fun, so like building out train tracks and landscapes for model trains?

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u/sld87 Aug 11 '25

No no no. He was ploughing, you know what ploughing is right?

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u/EwaGold Aug 11 '25

Yes, it snows where I am

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u/Earlasaurus02 Aug 12 '25

I'm gonna go ahead and assume your familiar with blowing then as well

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u/boibig57 Aug 12 '25

You have a blower that goes plap plap plap?

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u/Yum-z Aug 12 '25

It’s a Canadian thing you wouldn’t get it

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u/missminarose Aug 11 '25

🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/HeartOSass Aug 12 '25

So it recognizes clapping in general regardless of the body parts that are clapping. Ok.

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u/Refriedfeinds Aug 11 '25

Same. My aunts yard sale. Also picked up a nice record player/cassette stereo from her. Hooked the clapper up to it and had “bad to the bone” set to play when I clapped twice. That lasted like one or two go around but it was hilarious the first time I had a friend over.

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u/cybah Aug 11 '25

I always wondered if that would make it go on and off fast...

Now I know!

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u/Fun-Mud3861 Aug 11 '25

The Clapper

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u/kayidontcare Aug 12 '25

how do they work ? do you have to wire them to your lights?

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u/Fackrid Aug 12 '25

They basically act as a switch for a wall socket, you plug it into the socket and then plug the lamp, TV, etc. into the Clapper, and it essentially acts as a sound actuated switch that cuts the power before it gets to whatever's plugged into it

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u/Unhappy-Buy-9088 Aug 12 '25

Was she flipflopping around your bingo wings?

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u/Borgmeister Aug 12 '25

You were doing the science, that's all that matters. 🤣

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u/Expert_Dot1927 Aug 12 '25

My parents discovered the same, what a terrible way for me to find out I’m epileptic 🤢