Hula girls, tipsy birds and other ancestors
Posted: March 10, 2013 at 4 a.m.
Drinking Birds have been bobbing for almost 70 years, thanks to thermodynamic science that takes a smart duck to understand.
Bobbleheads come from a long line of waggish toys — enough ancestors to fill a wiggle room, including: The dashboard hula girl: She sways her hips to every jiggle in the road. Dashboard hula girls have been distracting drivers ever since the 1950s.
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