What a Difference a Year Makes? Not a Whole Lot According to Gridskipper

A tipster has alerted us to an interesting phenomenon. It seems that Gridskipper has been repackaging old posts and presenting them as new by merely changing the date. Behold Monday’s posting on ping pong in Berlin.

When did tischtennis (ping pong) grow cool? Its roots in Berlin go back to 1899, when the first ping pong verein (club) was established. Members were of the “upper crust” and may have been cool. But the current ping-pong furor seems to be riding on the coattails (or legwarmers) of the 1980s fashion craze (or the upcoming Balls of Fury).