Was there ever a period in human history when we routinely killed birds with stones? Not only that but apparently tried to kill as many birds as we could with as few stones as we could. Did some guy get lucky one day and get two birds with one stone and go, "OH SHIT! I have to tell everybody to do this, for the rest of forever!"
I feel like in the two years of Anthropology classes I participated in I didn't hear about our history of hunting birds with stones. In fact now that I think of it I didn't hear about it at all. I'm not saying people probably didn't kill the occasionally bird with a stone. I guess I feel like it probably wasn't a normal enough hunting occurrence to warrant making up a popular 'saying' that lasts for the rest of human existence.
If you go back far enough we were more likely killing or scavenging larger mammals and if you get a bit more modern we would have invented archery and I feel like arrows would be better suited for killing anything than a stone would.
Maybe it was that crazy guy who lived in the hut on the end. The one everyone knew was a little off. The village weirdo. He never came to the rain dances and didn't participate in ceremonies. You know the one. Maybe his crazy ass always went off in the woods with an arm full of stones and threw them at birds all God damned day.
Maybe the others made the phrase "kill two birds with one stone" as a tongue in cheek thing to mock him with. Because face it, when is that crazy bastard ever going to kill any birds, let alone two.
But then he not only gets a bird but he kills two with one stone none-the-less! The village is amazed and the phrase lives on forever. The End.
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A phrase that might be misleading in the wrong context:
"I was going to town on this ass the other day."
You see, for an average person with their mind in the gutter this clearly means one thing. But WAIT.
Might the speaker of this phrase merely of meant that he was riding into town on a donkey?
You sick f*cks
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This one is too good to pass up. So like I've mentioned before. I can go into the blog's stats and see what people searched for in Google (or whatever other search engine people use, except, who the fuck doesn't use Google for all their searching needs?) to get here.
And I kid you not, recently, one of the paths that led a poor soul here was "Butt piss"
Yes, somebody typed butt piss into Google and Google was like, "I know exactly where you belong, butt piss man." and sent his/her questionable self this way.
Look. I don't know what the hell you want Mr. and or Mrs/Miss butt piss but you can't find it here. I'm not a doctor nor am I anyone else qualified to deal with such a topic. You're welcome to stay but please don't bother the others.
I think killing birds with stones was popular among peasants in medival times. I realize I probs didn't spell that right. Anyway. This is my reasoning: they were too poor too have bows and arrows so they threw rocks at birds while harvesting their landlords farm.
ReplyDeleteIt may not refer to reality or how the real things were in the past. Furthermore I have never heard about people hunting birds by throwing them stones. It may be just a way to say the things. Of course no one could be really sure.
ReplyDeleteAnyway that's funny to see people debate about its origine.