How high can you throw ball?

Here is another curious pursuit: Sigillography. There are hundreds of people around the World who collect and study sigillum, that is to say, the wax seals that dangle off medieaval documents, deeds, treaties, etc., the distant ancestors of the little red blobs with a heart logo that you see on wedding invitations now. Many were quite large and very ornate. Intact examples are incredibly rare. Do a google image search on medieaval wax seal; the result is astonishing. I had a professor when I was at university who was heavily into this. He would spend his last dime buying some of these things that he kept in a felt lined drawer.
 
Burrapeg said:
Here is another curious pursuit: Sigillography. There are hundreds of people around the World who collect and study sigillum, that is to say, the wax seals that dangle off medieaval documents, deeds, treaties, etc., the distant ancestors of the little red blobs with a heart logo that you see on wedding invitations now. Many were quite large and very ornate. Intact examples are incredibly rare. Do a google image search on medieaval wax seal; the result is astonishing. I had a professor when I was at university who was heavily into this. He would spend his last dime buying some of these things that he kept in a felt lined drawer.
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Now that is dull. Collecting war TP now that pure shitting adrenaline right there.....gets the anal juices flowing like a tsunami.....
 
swingdude said:
Now that is dull....
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Maybe so, Swing, but this guy would not have agreed. I stopped by his office with some other students one time after class and he had just gotten a little box in the mail. He had a wild look in his eyes and his hands were shaking as he opened it to show us. He slid it out of the box and a velvet envelope it was in, and it was about 6 inches across. Had the figure of a knight on horseback holding a sword with weird letters around the edge. I think he said it was the royal seal of somebody called Rudolf II, hundreds of years old. I thought he was going to have a heart attack he was so aroused. He had actually taken out a bank loan to buy the bloody thing.
 
Burrapeg said:
Maybe so, Swing, but this guy would not have agreed. I stopped by his office with some other students one time after class and he had just gotten a little box in the mail. He had a wild look in his eyes and his hands were shaking as he opened it to show us. He slid it out of the box and a velvet envelope it was in, and it was about 6 inches across. Had the figure of a knight on horseback holding a sword with weird letters around the edge. I think he said it was the royal seal of somebody called Rudolf II, hundreds of years old. I thought he was going to have a heart attack he was so aroused. He had actually taken out a bank loan to buy the bloody thing.
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My God. I am rolling on my couch. Watching peppa pig with my 5 year old daughter....bank loan good grief
 
moss said:
Let it run! ;-) Feathering the throwline with your fingertips as Brocky mentioned is a strong strategy to limit an overthrow or bad throw. A hard stop is not good, will cause the bag to do multiple wraps around the nearest twig or branch. The only good that comes of that is forcing you to climb to places you would never go voluntarily to rescue the bag, awesome climber training technique.
-AJ
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You have to have good timing to release it at the right time so that it comes back to you. At one time I was able to get a high arcing return and catch it in my shirt pocket, that was until it came back as a line drive to the chest, gave up on the idea of using pants pocket to catch after this.
 
Burrapeg said:
he had just gotten a little box in the mail. He had a wild look in his eyes and his hands were shaking as he opened it to show us. I thought he was going to have a heart attack he was so aroused. He had actually taken out a bank loan to buy the bloody thing.
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You're sure you didn't visit me when I was unboxing some climbing gear? Cause that sounds just like it...
 
JeffGu said:
There have been a few times, while out hunting or fishing, that I would have taken out a small loan just for half a roll of WW2 toilet paper. While working out in farmland, I keep a roll of toilet paper in the truck... with a piece of throwline through it so I can hang it.
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God invented socks and t-shirts for those times you don't have TP for your bung hole!
 
rico said:
God invented socks and t-shirts for those times you don't have TP for your bung hole!
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And handkerchiefs. One time when I was an instructor I pulled out my red handkerchief and blew my nose. It apparently offended a student who apparently was a gang member whose colors were red. I told him I was out in the woods and needed to take a dump I would wipe my ass with it and he went ballistic. He didn't last long in the program.
 
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