Points should be awarded for distance AND accuracy to better represent the sport's origins: killing things from far away.-- theleopard, Aug 08 2012 Ah, here we go... https://www.google....AQ&biw=1000&bih=583 [normzone, Aug 08 2012] I thought the sport's origins were in a desire to see muscular androgynous women with spears ... or maybe that's just me.-- baconbrain, Aug 08 2012 I've been considering posting an idea I'd call 'Olympic Mammoth Hunting', which would essentially be a stone-age biathalon combining hurdles and javelin, with the spear carried during the hurdle sprint and thrown at a target at the end. I haven't put it up because it's a combination of pre-existing sports and thus not really a halfbaked idea, but since we're thinking along the same lines I definitely have to award this post. [+]-- Alterother, Aug 08 2012 //I thought the sport's origins were in a desire to see muscular androgynous women with spears //
Nope. Killing things, from as far away as possible.-- theleopard, Aug 08 2012 [+] to Mammoth Hunting...-- theleopard, Aug 08 2012 // Killing things, from as far away as possible. //
Re: my proposal to re-introduce high-caliber riflery to the Games. The best competitive shooters in the world can kill sheets of paper at 600-700 meters.*
*yes, there are 1,000-yard competitions, but I don't think .50 caliber rifles are a good fit for the Olympics.-- Alterother, Aug 08 2012 Wait a minute - I missed the girls with spears photos... I don't have television here, can somebody help me decide how to vote?-- normzone, Aug 08 2012 Wait, do you mean a java line? I suppose with the right sort of code, it could kill my desktop remotely.-- RayfordSteele, Aug 08 2012 I thought a java line was what you see at the airport Starbucks.-- sqeaketh the wheel, Aug 08 2012 No, a Java line is what you see in the airport in Jakarta.-- baconbrain, Aug 08 2012 "My wife's just gone to Indonesia" "Jakarta?" "No, she managed by herself."
Sorry.-- MaxwellBuchanan, Aug 08 2012 "Ibiza" "Yeth, me too."-- MaxwellBuchanan, Aug 08 2012 Not fair, no one liked my Echidna joke, and now we've got the "my wife went to.." jokes...-- not_morrison_rm, Aug 10 2012 You need a sandbox to do it in.-- neelandan, Aug 10 2012 - "I just went to a really terrible concert in South-East Asia"- "Singapore?"- "Yes, and the rest of the band were rubbish too"-- hippo, Aug 13 2012 <London-centric joke>
"I took my fiancé for a meal in Southwark this weekend."
"You take her up the Oxo Tower?"
"The particulars of our carnal embrace are of no concern to you, you salacious cad."-- theleopard, Aug 15 2012 - "I've just come back from a singing tour of South-East Asia"- "Seoul?"- "No, R'n'B"-- hippo, Aug 15 2012 My wife was having trouble picking a vacation spot, so I figured phuket.-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Aug 15 2012 They should be wearing skis, too.-- 4and20, Aug 15 2012 //They should be wearing skis, too.//
They should have to ski down to a jump, hurl a javelin at an archery target mid-air, land on a horse, jump a hedge while landing a shot put on a metal rabbit's head, pole vault off the horse, over a bar, performing a perfect triple-sumersault into the pool below, where they have to resurface in a spinning upside-down pirouette whilst firing underwater arrows at mechanical piranhas. How's THAT for representing the sports' origins?-- theleopard, Aug 16 2012 You forgot jousting, but this can be sqeezed in between the shot put and the pole vault, then using the jousting lance as the pole vault pole.-- hippo, Aug 16 2012 random, halfbakery