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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

1 posted on 08/21/2008 3:34:58 PM PDT by xp38
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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 ...)
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To: xp38; SunkenCiv; Ernest_at_the_Beach; StayAt HomeMother; blam

For the GGG


3 posted on 08/21/2008 3:45:28 PM PDT by xp38
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To: IncPen

Hey, coins, stamps and currency that are mistakes are the most valuable. Why shouldn’t boomerangs be any different?


4 posted on 08/21/2008 4:15:35 PM PDT by Jabba the Nutt (We're all Georgians now, Lili-Putin!)
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Thanks xp38. Appropriate, circumnavigation returns the ship to the starting point, so...

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5 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)
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To: xp38
Yar. That be spiffy.

And just in time for International Talk Like A Pirate Day (pops) which be September 19th, me lads!

6 posted on 08/21/2008 10:19:27 PM PDT by mountainbunny
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If they fail to use the lingo, them that dies will be the lucky ones! ARRRRRGH!


7 posted on 08/22/2008 6:50:28 AM PDT by wildbill
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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.

8 posted on 08/22/2008 6:51:01 AM PDT by BBell
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To: xp38

How do you throw away a boomerang?


9 posted on 08/22/2008 7:59:55 AM PDT by curmudgeonII
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To: curmudgeonII

Erase the “Return to Thrower” chip?


10 posted on 08/22/2008 8:09:13 AM PDT by TaMoDee
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This topic was posted 8/21/2008, thanks xp38.

11 posted on 08/18/2022 10:59:32 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: IncPen
Charlie Drake - My Boomerang Won't Come Back
12 posted on 08/18/2022 11:02:22 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (3,850,452 users on Truth Social)
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