Posted on 08/18/2022 7:17:04 AM PDT by Red Badger
Ping!............................
Why just the other day I watched an Australian man creatively use a boomerang to take a mirror off a car and break open a window to get access to the doctor that vaxxed his kid.
So “traditional” is capitalized now?
Had one as a kid/teenager and got pretty good with it. (Setting aside accidentally breaking my Dad’s truck windshield.)
should be able to buy one at Cabelas
I had a boomerang as a kid...................
In the Leftist worldview it is always Europeans doing the invading. No other society has ever invaded anyone anywhere in the Left worldview.
I watched boomerang as a kid!
What’s the idea of putting coffee in my coffee ☕ cup?!!
The Aboriginies are the civilized ones!
There are at least two types of Australian boomerangs. One, a heavier version, is not designed to return. It simply goes out a fair distance and strikes hard whatever it’s aimed at. The other type returns. Years ago, some of us would use a router and make 2” oblong slots in either end of a returning boomerang. Then, we’d tape miniature chemical light sticks in the slots and throw the boomerang at night. The result was amazing.
LOL. Good is a matter of perspective. If your dad was sitting in his truck good wasn’t the first word to come to mind.
Don't see kids playing with them today. I guess they went the way of BB guns, slingshots and whittling knives. Helicopter parents find them too dangerous.
My bedroom window had decorative wood shutters on either side (outside). At age 7, I had a neat 4" fixed blade knife from the San Diego Zoo. I became proficient at throwing it from 15 ft and sticking tip neatly in the wood. It was fun until it struck the glass window. It went into the glass stopping with the hilt. Oops.
All the kids had boomerangs when I was growing up. It was actually a great skill to have. With a little practice and a little wind, you could have it come right back to you every time.
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Boomerangs were frisbees before frisbees were frisbees.
https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.2825076
You have to be really careful around boomerangs. They go out and then come back in from behind or the side. It is very easy to loose track of one, especially if there are several in the air. I caught a boomerang in my teeth once and was lucky I didn’t loose anything.
My boomerang won’t come back!
My boomerang won’t come back!
I waved the thing all over the place,
Practiced till I was blue in the face.
I’m a big disgrace to the Aborigine race!
My boomerang won’t come back!
I can ride a kangaroo,
Make kinkijou stew,
But I’m a big disgrace to the Aborigine race,
My boomerang won’t come back!
So did I. I followed the instructions on how to throw it, threw it out over the neighbor’s cornfield and it never did com back.
One throw- gone.
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