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Why are there so many throwing sports? Did Greeks really use a discus in hunting, like that Xena WP chick does with her vaginal symbol. Is there a distinct kind of throwing that is not properly represented.

― Pete, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(Xena WP chiXoR uzes a "chakrum ring" which works likes a boomerang (first attempt: moomerang = somehow bettah, in context), ie returns if does not bonk a centaur dead.)

Is there not a sport called Hurling?

― mark s, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm assuming they did use a discus in hunting otherwise when in myths some golden-limbed youth or other is out hunting w/discus it would have looked a bit mad.

CABERS.

― Tom, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hurling is like a cross between rugby and hockey. It looks very violent indeed, even more so than ice hockey or Aussie rules.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The one I've never understood is the hammer. It looks nothing like a hammer, so why is it called that?

― MarkH, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Throwing a ball like a 'girly'.

― Billy Dods, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have a hammer but I have never thrown it at anyone. Yet.

― Emma, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What else is in your tool box, Emma?

― AP, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Taking Sides: Hurling vs Tossing? Who on ILE has not at some time tested the sharp joys of the one or the other?

(Or both at once = Kodanshi...)

― mark s, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Emma has a screwdriver too - which is odd because she is rarely to be found screwing.

― Pete, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I also have 2 screwdrivers, one with like a straight edge and one with like a cross. I think these have proper names but I fear it would seem unfeminine if I knew these.

Oh, and do tweezers count? Or eyelash curlers? Plus I have hair straighteners AND hair crimpers.

― Emma, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Which field event is it that involves a basic "jerking" technique?

― Greg, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Doesn't weightlifting have a category called 'clean and jerk'?

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I believe the other technique is known as the snatch.

― Madchen, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Weightlifting has the best terminology.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

As Dr. Frank N. Furter always puts it on Saturday night, "He'll do the snatch, clean and jerk" (cue audience: "OFF!").

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Why has nobody pointed out that Pete deserves a good spanking because he surely has little interest in the discus but posted anyway because he felt the need to show us all what an 'amusing' subject line he'd come up with?

― Madchen, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pete's good at that. I was thinking about this a while back. The majority of athletics events are about useful stuff, like how far you can throw shit, how fast you can run, how far you can jump, etc. However, who came up with the pole vault? How high you can jump over something using a specially designed flexible pole with perfect flexibility and a special hole in the ground to put it in. To be honest, that's just crazy. When they want to go higher they get a bigger pole. I'm not saying it's not hard, just that it's useless, whereas other track and field events are generally useful to some extent.

― Greg, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Where is the usefulness in the triple jump? That's another stupid contrivance. I mean when did real life ever require you to jump specifically in threes (even in monkey times)

― Nick, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The monkey times clearly never ended. And as evidence I present to you...

Hanle y.

― Dave M., Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Golden-limbed youth: Classic.

― Lyra, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wait. I knew someone would mention that. The triple jump is useful when you have to jump over three things. One small, one a bit bigger, one big.

― Greg, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Which are we in again: monkey times or end times?

― mark s, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Aren't they the same? I.e. Planet of the Apes?

― Lyra, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think Javelin Catching should play a prominent role in the Monkey Games during the Monkey Times.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The triple jump unlike real life? What about the hurdles? How often will you encounter 10 or 12 identically-sized, equally-spaced obstacles in your path *which you can't go around*? Or running in a big 400m oval? What was the last time you had to do that?

I think they should have the 1km spiral - you run in ever-tighter circles and at the end there's a big chute you throw yourself down. Onto a crash mat, obviously. It would be a bit more like hunting prey. Possibly.

― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How often will you encounter 10 or 12 identically-sized, equally- spaced obstacles in your path *which you can't go around*?

Speed bumps. Admittedly then you're in a car.

― Tom, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hurdles are also good training for that time when you have to rescue your girfirend who is being held by a giant monkey who is protecting her by throwing barrels at you. Also useful when - just at the last minute - said monkey removes her to a pie factory, though one must remember there that conveyor belts are not adequately represented in the IAAF's calendar.

The Hammer is also useful training for such and eventuality as it is the only way to destroy the barrels. However it is a pretty sappy hammer as it breaks after ten seconds.

― Pete, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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