Robert Sturgeon wrote:
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 16:16:51 -0500, ""
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"Robert Sturgeon" wrote in message
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On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 08:18:27 -0500, ""
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"Heynony" wrote in message
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KB9WFK wrote:
responding to "your neighbor will be able to hit your house with a
thrown rock from their front porch"
you are saying that after the collapse, my neighbors biceps are
going to mutate into such freakishly large proportions that they will
be able to throw rocks 20 acres?
Certainly he was exaggerating, but 20 acre plots aren't all that large.
Unless I can't do math in my head anymore (quite possible): if your
house was offset 80% off center towards the neighbor's lot and his
front porch offset similarly toward yours (not totally unreasonable),
the throw would be possible, I think (I could throw a rock close to 100
yards as a kid and I was far from the best). The concept is not hugely
off. From center to center, probably more on point, it would take a
great tee shot rather than a thrown rock.
You could throw a rock "almost" a hundred yards - as a kid? Correct me if
I'm wrong but I don't think the best quarterbacks in the NFL can throw
the
entire length of a football field.
A rock is more like a baseball than a football. A major
league outfielder can throw a baseball 100 yards. In my
younger days, so could I.
Okay, a rock then. 325 feet from home plate is the shortest distance
permissible by major-league standards to the fence. I doubt there are many
that can throw anything from that distance and reach homeplate. Jose
Guillen, had one of strongest arms in baseball and one night he managed a
375' (125 yard) throw, from warning track to homeplate. This is from an
extraordinary guy. And you could almost match him when you were a kid?
As a young man, I could throw a baseball 100 yards. It
isn't a superhuman feat. Have you ever thrown a baseball?
Are you 6'3 and WELL muscled? I was.
I am not 6'3" - more like 5'6" - but I was fairly
well-muscled - about 150 lb; max bench press of 255 lb;
one-handed clean-and-jerk of 95 lb; 45' puts with a 12
lb shot - and the best thrown I could manage was about
93-94 yards. I lived across the street during this
time from Granada Hills High School in the San Fernando
Valley, John Elway's high school (saw him play baseball
there one afternoon), and I went over to the football
field specifically to see how far I could throw a
baseball. I had always imagined I had a good arm, and
I wanted to know just how good. I'd stand in one end
zone, run towards the goal line, and heave it as hard
as I could toward the other end zone. The best I could
get was a couple or three yards inside the far 10 yard
line, and other than "toward the far end zone", I had
no idea where the thing was going.
Damn, I knew this theme was something I had seen before
in misc.rural (where I'm following the thread), and it
didn't take me long to find it. It was that FAT ****
Boob Adkins, bragging that he once could throw a
football over 70 yards, and a softball - not a baseball
- 100 yards or more. He also claimed he could throw a
14+ ounce grenade 75 yards or more, "on a straight
line", when he was in the army. What a ****ing
shit-4-braincell liar. You can't read Boob's post
directly, because the GUTLESS COWARD always posts using
x-no-archive, but you can read it in my reply to it:
http://tinyurl.com/2thfp