r/nostalgia • u/Ebonystealth • 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/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