[SEL] Re: Interesting Tool (Peter Scales)

Richard Strobel Richard_Strobel7 at msn.com
Sat Jul 23 09:29:52 PDT 2005


Hi Jerry;
  Your right!!! I threw it about 150 yards and it didn't come back..maybe I 
held it wrong

Whew
RickinMt.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry Evans" <jerrye at databak.co.za>
To: <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 10:11 PM
Subject: [SEL] Re: Interesting Tool (Peter Scales)


> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:27:05 +0100
> From: Peter Scales <peter at loud-n-clear.net>
> Subject: Re: [SEL] Interesting Tool
>
> In message <BAY5-DAV21A91BDEA54130B7022726BBD60 at phx.gbl>, Richard
> Strobel <Richard_Strobel7 at msn.com> writes
> >  We found this in spud heads FIL's shop.  Anyone want to take a guess at
> >it?
> >
> >http://community.webshots.com/photo/60686285/399556018qgDHpU
>
>
> It is an iron age boomerang invented in Zimbabwe (Africa) about 4000 years
> ago. The heavy weight was required to bring down large animals like
> elephants and rhinoceros. Once the animal was down the job was finished 
> off
> with a sharp pronged device like the one in the foreground of the picture.
> Being an invention of African origin it had many flaws, the main one being
> it's inability to return to the thrower if he missed the target. Legend 
> has
> it that on one such occasion one of them carried on going until it hit a
> big rock in Australia. There it was found by an Aboriginal tribe who, 
> being
> far more intelligent than their African counterparts, developed one that
> actually returned to the thrower. Another improvement that the Aboriginals
> made was to fabricate it from wood (they had not learnt how to steal yet -
> sorry I mean had not learnt to smelt steel yet.) as the kangaroos and the
> like that they hunted did not need such a heavy boomerang to bring them 
> down.
>
> The name "Boomerang" is actually of African origin (sorry Aus!!) and came
> about from the noise an early victim heard when one hit him on the head by
> mistake - "BOOM". So originally it was just known as a "BOOM". Later when
> they trained monkeys to retrieve them these monkeys were called "Boom
> orangatang's" and by natural progression the name was eventually corrupted
> to Boomerang.
>
> I trust that this clears up the mystery of the "Interesting tool" and also
> credits Africa as being the original inventors of the Boomerang, an idea
> wrongly claimed by Australia as being theirs.
>
>
>
>
>
> Best regards
> Jerry Evans.
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