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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

They spend more time than most tossing the caber, if you know what I mean. ;')


7 posted on 08/20/2006 10:03:47 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (updated my FR profile on Thursday, August 10, 2006. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv
Well, i didn't but ,...thanks to Google:

tossing the caber

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The caber is a pole about 18 feet long weighing about 115 pounds. The athlete holds the caber upright, grasping it by its thin end, and throws it so that it lands on its heavy end and flips over. The throw is not judged on distance, but direction. If the thrower is imagined to stand at the center of a clock with 6 at his back, the thin end ideally falls at a 12 o'clock position.


8 posted on 08/20/2006 10:17:17 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)
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To: SunkenCiv
You also see that thing with the round stones and, as I'd heard it, they are graded by weight and nobody in Scotland had ever gotten the heaviest one off the ground a single inch. And then Bill Kazmaier just walked up to the thing and picked it up:


12 posted on 08/21/2006 1:50:33 AM PDT by tomzz
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