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Spinner is the surname of: Bryson Spinner (born 1980), American football quarterback; Francis E. Spinner (1802–1890), U.S. Representative from New York; Jackie Spinner (born 1970), American journalist; Leopold Spinner (1906–1980), Ukrainian-born, British-domiciled composer and editor; Tony Spinner (born 1963), American rock and blues singer ...
The "Steering Wheel Spinner Knob" was invented by Joel R. Thorp of Wisconsin in 1936. [5] The name "Brodie knob" is a reference to Steve Brodie and was meant to describe all manner of reckless stunts that can be performed with the spinner knob.
Some role-playing games use tops to augment dice in generating randomized results; it is in this case referred to as a spinner. Gould mentions maple seeds , celts (leading to rattlebacks ), the fire-drill , the spindle whorl , and the potter's wheel as possible predecessors to the top, which he assumes was invented or discovered multiple times ...
Whirligig store. A whirligig is an object that spins or whirls, or has at least one part that spins or whirls. It can also be a pinwheel, spinning top, buzzer, comic weathervane, gee-haw, spinner, whirlygig, whirlijig, whirlyjig, whirlybird, or simply a whirly.
A six-sided Chinese teetotum. In its earliest form, the body was square (in some cases via a stick through a regular six-sided die [3]), marked on the four sides by the letters A (Lat. aufer, take), indicating that the player takes one from the pool, D (Lat. depone, put down) when a fine has to be paid, N (Lat. nihil, nothing), and T (Lat. totum, all), when the whole pool is to be taken.
The Fidget Spinner that replaces the buffering icon; When watching a video with "fidget spinner" in the title, the buffering icon would change into a spinning fidget spinner. This easter egg no longer works. [250] In 2011, the Nyan Cat video on YouTube was updated to show a custom progress bar with an animated Nyan Cat and a rainbow trail.
Twister competition in 1966. In 1964, Reyn Guyer Sr. owned and managed a design company which made in-store displays for Fortune 500 companies. [2]Charles Foley was a respected and successful toy designer for Lakeside Industries in Minneapolis and answered an ad for an experienced toy designer by Reynolds Guyer Sr. of Guyer Company. [2]
Dorothy Spinner first appeared in issue #14 of the second volume of the series Doom Patrol.Her name is an in-joke referring to Dorothy Gale and how she arrived in Oz, by a tornado, or spinning wind.