It appears that you have missed your chance to participate in the annual Dead Rabbit Throw competition in New Zealand. Animal welfare activists seem to have found it somehow distasteful to have families try to throw dead rabbits the farthest.
The annual “Rabbit Throw” was held in the town of Waiau but was cancelled after a concerted campaign by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA). Organiser Jo Moriarty claims banning the bunny contest is “political correctness gone mad”.
One of the charity’s inspectors, Charles Cadwallader, asked: “Do you throw your dead grandmother around for a joke at her funeral?” Organizers are now looking into Cadwallader’s suggestion. (The idea of synthetic bunnies is not appealing to the rabbit-tossing set).
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One can’t help but wax poetic after reading a story such as this.
Rabbits here,
Rabbits there,
Rabbits sailing through the air.
Projectile bunnies
Tossed for sport—
That’s entertainment of ANOTHER sort.
Grab a leg
Or grab an ear
And fling a bunny outta here.
Join us in
A fine tradition:
The dead hare tossing competition.
Shades of the Afghan games where they play polo with a goat’s head.
What is next, the land mine toss?
The do-gooders take the fun out of everything!
Several of the comments from the video are quite witty.
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“Throwing dead bunnies is wrong, wrong, wrong. You’re likely to get greater distance throwing live bunnies.”
“So we can eat them, skin them, and wear them, we can cut their feet off for good luck charms, but heaven forbid that we should throw them we they are dead. The world’s gone mad.”
dink a link: http://www.snopes.com/pregnant/rabbit.asp
I guess the SPCA would contest the validity of the usage of bunnies that turned up dead while used as a Pregnancy indicator….
hush, the rabbit died..link:
Nothing like having a little fun with bunny ballistics. Ah well, hare today…gone tomorrow.
And homo sapiens is considered the most evolved species! Go figure.
I think we should establish a new organization called SPDDT, the Society for the Prevention of Doing Dumb Things. That group would be busy all the time–especially in Texas. Right, AY?
This tale of the “Dead Rabbit Toss” would no doubt make Mister McGregor one very happy character from children’s literature.
Alan,
Gentlemen, cock your trebuchets. Next year, the bunny chunkin.
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I guess you could bill this as a Hare Raising Event.
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nal,
In this case “throw” is a noun. It’s like “Judo throw,” a compound noun. There are many types of Judo throws.
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So is Kung Pow a noun, verb or adjective. It is just agitating to me.
In this case “throw” is a noun. It’s like “Judo throw,” a compound noun. There are many types of Judo throws.
Gentlemen, cock your trebuchets. Next year, the bunny chunkin.
“The Australian writer C.J. Dennis defined it thus: ‘Wowser: an ineffably pious person who mistakes this world for a penitentiary and himself for a warder’.”
a good many Americans fit this definition.
AY:
how about tossing a reading kitty cat?
Probably not, the Prof. would have withdrawal symptoms.
I dont know what a “Wowser” is but I agree.
nal,
help me here, is it throw, throwing, toss or tossing when you are speaking of more than one possible rabbit? I will grant you my English can be weak..or is that lazy….
Sanitation issues alone should give participants pause. What’s the public health service’s stand on this event?
At least it’s not a live rabbit throw contest.
rafflaw,
At least this time they are not from Texas.
You wouldn’t think that it would take an animal organization to suggest that throwing dead animals is not a good idea. Where do people get these “intelligent” ideas?
Iow equal Iowa, duh
This Hare Raising episode made me think of Cow Chip Tossing Contest. So, you thought only people in Texas did stupid. Well, in Iowa they had the smarts to put it on Iow Public Television. So, with that said, get a load of this and watch the Fowl line….
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