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[Spanky]

Thanks for reminding me of tops, Ice. The one shown was not the typical top of my boyhood.  The pictured top is spun with two hands sometimes, like you were trying to start a fire with a straight stick on a prepared piece of wood.  The tops I remember vied with yo-you s as toys. Looked like this: 

   

The cord is shown.  The round piece would be slipped on the middle finger and the cord would be attached to it. Then the cord would be wrapped around the "top" and "thrown" slickly to a hard surface where it would spin.  You could also have top fights, where one guy would throw his top and try to knock another top off kilter.  Great fun.