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Captain Cook's boomerang to make a handsome return
The London Times ^
| August 21, 2008
| Lucy Bannerman
Posted on 08/21/2008 3:34:58 PM PDT by xp38
Captain Cook's boomerang has returned - and could bring its owner £60,000.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: australia; boomerang; captaincook; cook; godsgravesglyphs; unitedkingdom
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posted on
08/21/2008 3:34:58 PM PDT
by
xp38
To: xp38
Hey!
WTF!
It’s bent!
Now it’s worthless!
2
posted on
08/21/2008 3:40:04 PM PDT
by
IncPen
(We are but a moment's sunlight, fading in the grass ...)
To: xp38; SunkenCiv; Ernest_at_the_Beach; StayAt HomeMother; blam
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posted on
08/21/2008 3:45:28 PM PDT
by
xp38
To: IncPen
Hey, coins, stamps and currency that are mistakes are the most valuable. Why shouldn’t boomerangs be any different?
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posted on
08/21/2008 4:15:35 PM PDT
by
Jabba the Nutt
(We're all Georgians now, Lili-Putin!)
To: xp38; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
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posted on
08/21/2008 9:57:39 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile hasn't been updated since Friday, May 30, 2008)
To: xp38
To: mountainbunny
If they fail to use the lingo, them that dies will be the lucky ones! ARRRRRGH!
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posted on
08/22/2008 6:50:28 AM PDT
by
wildbill
To: xp38
"The oldest returning boomerang was found in the Polish Carpathians and is thought to be more than 18,000 years old."
I never knew they had boomerangs in Europe.
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posted on
08/22/2008 6:51:01 AM PDT
by
BBell
To: xp38
How do you throw away a boomerang?
To: curmudgeonII
Erase the “Return to Thrower” chip?
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posted on
08/22/2008 8:09:13 AM PDT
by
TaMoDee
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
This topic was posted , thanks xp38.

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posted on
08/18/2022 10:59:32 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: IncPen
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posted on
08/18/2022 11:02:22 AM PDT
by
SamAdams76
(3,850,452 users on Truth Social)
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