It is unadulterated, exultant silly British genius. Milo rocks. There's a strength-sport journal named after him (some people even tried the calf thing - and failed, it grows too fast!). Now, anyone want to make up a four for wiff-waff? It's coming home, it's co-oming home, wiff-waff's coming home, it's coming home....
The game has its origins in England as an after-dinner amusement for upper-class Victorians in the 1880s. Mimicking the game of tennis in an indoor environment, everyday objects were originally enlisted to act as the equipment. A line of books would be the net, a rounded top of a Champagne cork or knot of string as the ball, and a cigar box lid as the racket[2].Table tennis evolved into the modern game in Europe, the United States and Japan.[3] The popularity of the game led game manufacturers to sell the equipment commercially. Early rackets were often pieces of parchment stretched upon a frame, and the sound generated in play gave the game its first nicknames of "whiff-whaff" and "Ping-pong."