World's oldest boomerang doesn't actually come back

BBC News ^ | June 25, 2025 | Helen Briggs

[SunkenCiv]

That’s more of your troll nonsense, and not surprisingly, not from a scientific source.

[SunkenCiv]

LOL. Or “factory second”.

[SunkenCiv]

Good ones will circle back *a bit* if they miss the target. The alternative is, a hunting tool that took time to craft has to be hunted *for*.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Thrown rock was probably our first distance weapon but thrown stick was probably close behind.

People still hunt with throwing clubs quite successfully.

[one guy in new jersey]

Suit yourself.

By any chance, do you also subscribe to the theory of (macro) evolution?

On biblical guidance, all humans descended from one man: Adam, with another bottleneck at Noah. Are you down with this? Or no.

[null and void]

What do you call a boomerang that doesn’t come back?

[SunkenCiv]

Gnaremoob?

[SunkenCiv]

As I’ve said to you before, under one of your many other nicks, try chopping up your meds and snorting them, they’ll be more potent that way.

[null and void]

I’m stealing that.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I remember hearing that on the radio back then. First thing I thought of when I saw the headline on this story, in fact.

[dfwgator]

“Why do I always get a warped one?”

[Hot Tabasco]

Would you want to shoot a rifle that somehow returned bullets to you?

Well, it it was shaped like a boomerang, I suppose you could shoot around corners....

[drSteve78]

Sometimes a pointy curved stick is just a pointy curved stick..

[DPMD]

Don’t tell Charlie Drake; he tried to warn us.

[BradyLS]

My brother and I like “boomerang jokes.” Jokes you throw out there and people scratch their heads over. …Until it hits ‘em later!

[KingLudd]

My luddite friend throwing a replica he made:

https://youtu.be/XK-cAcCIkUo?feature=shared

Bad to the broken bone.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Thor threw it away. That’s why you found it. “P.O.S. is now a museum piece, lol” said Thor.

He alsi is quoted saying “Yea, all my clay pots are crap too, that’s why the dump is full of clay shards. Si tired of eating and drinking from my hands.”

[frank ballenger]

List proves a lot of the posts here are about throwbacks to an earlier era.

Laugh In joke:

“I’m worried that I’m starting to forget things lately.”

“Just write notes on a boomerang. It will all come back to you.”

[one guy in new jersey]

what “other nicks”

being that there aren’t any

[timestax]

* hunting
* cultural object
* artistic piece
* ritual object
* garbage disposal cleaner
* Mastodon toothpickhat *hat rack *back scratcher