What's up with this rock-throwing shit over in the Middle East?

-- Anonymous, December 22, 2000

Answers

This is an area that has been all about using rocks as projectile weapons since David killed Goliath. This is the place where the concept of stoning came from. Want to do some damage to someone? Throw a rock! Simple; instinctive; potentially deadly, especially in large quantities.

-- Anonymous, December 22, 2000

i'mm surprised baseball isnt bigger over in isreal... some of those kids probably got thier arms built up enough they can throw 100mph fastballs.

-- Anonymous, December 22, 2000

Cheap, reusable, comes from the earth...they're pro-enviroment, you see.

-- Anonymous, December 22, 2000

my brother and i used to fight a lot and about six years ago i threw one of those soft cover pocket edition (tho ive never seen pockets that big) encyclopedia at him. to this day he has a dent between his eyes where it hit him... im imagining that a well aimed rock, being heavier and sharper, would be pretty much the same as that, but doing a helluva lot more damage. maybe?

-- Anonymous, December 23, 2000

they po' ghetto trash and cain't represent, yo.

-- Anonymous, December 23, 2000

Them middle-eastern fuckers (e.i. commoners) don't have enough money to buy themeselves weapons of mass destruction (e.i. gun), thus they use whatever is readily available (e.ii. rocks)

-- Anonymous, December 25, 2000

I guess none of you have actually SEEN a person get stoned.

A woman in Iraq (maybe it was Iran?) was caught having an affair. Which is big potatoes over there. They ripped half her clothes off and then stoned her.

It is one of the most visicous and cruel ways to kill a person. It's not a fast way to die, either.

Anyway, it's one of the worst things that i have ever seen.

-- Anonymous, December 29, 2000

Speaking of people getting stoned, have you ever read "The Lottery?" KICKASS!

-- Anonymous, December 29, 2000

OOoooh, the Lottery, now that is one freaking freaky short story. Another one that's in a similar vein (in the sense of having weird and dark undertones) is "A Good Man Is Hard to Find." I forget who wrote it. But it's pretty cool.

-- Anonymous, December 29, 2000

Ack. "The Lottery" freaks me out. I had a nightmare after reading it the first time.

And "A Good Man is Hard to Find" was written by Flannery O'Conner. Who rocks (pardon the pun).

-- Anonymous, January 02, 2001