Pogs are so dumb.
Source: thingsofmyinterest.com
At some point in the '90s, for reasons which escape you both then and now, you began collecting these things called "Pogs." You'd carry around your lot of decorated cardboard discs in neon plastic tubes, and proudly show off your refined taste for flames and ying-yangs come recess.
The thing is...did anyone ever really know how to play Pogs? You'd stack them up, maybe knock them over, and try to take all of your friends' items. But in the end, since no one ever wanted to trade or lose their precious Pogs — especially not that cool skull and roses one —you just packed them back up, with no clear winner.
It probably looked a lot like this...
So what are Pogs? The name comes from a brand of juice called POG (stands for passion fruit, orange, guava), which came packaged with lids that made good pieces for playing the game we'd eventually just call "Pogs." There have been earlier forms of Pog-like games played for ages — usually with milk bottle caps — but Pog is the term that stuck in the '90s.