Over the years, however, the competition has evolved to include more sophisticated methods of hurling baked goods.
Why do foreigners want to join in the great British sport of hurling wads of fivers down this particular black hole?
"As a result of hurling the rock, the front windscreen of the vehicle in which the father and son were travelling was smashed and Asher Palmer was hit, " a statement from the military prosecutor reads.
Following November's 2-1 defeat, Leeds fans pulled up dozens of seats hurling them from the stand and flares were launched into the crowd.
Any nation willing to send the products of the best minds of a generation and a significant portion of its GNP hurling into space to blast a ball of ice three miles across will be treated very carefully by its neighbours.
After an hour or so of this Punch-and-Judy show, with its noisy drinking, hurling of kitchen items, partings, and reconciliations, you may want to knock both lovers flat with an enormous chili pepper.
It was only later, when upon the white flash of another high sea hurling itself amidships, Jukes had a vision of two pairs of davits leaping black and empty out of the solid blackness, with one overhauled fall flying and an iron-bound block capering in the air, that he became aware of what had happened within about three yards of his back.
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And he plans to create America's first museum of cricket and hurling.
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Running, jumping, all of a sudden hurling herself at the water.
Daithi McKay of Sinn Fein wanted to see more GAA tourism, noting that the North currently had some of the best hurling teams in the world, including the new all-Ireland club champions, Loughgiel Shamrocks.
Famous for an annual wife-carrying competition, for regular success at the world air-guitar championship and record-breaking hurling of rubber boots and mobile phones, Finland can now claim another accolade: its citizens are reportedly the world's keenest pranksters.
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Mr Vann uses two sequences to transform what could be another routine tale of small-town life, hurling the book into the outer darkness of the heart.
The disruption has affected hundreds of thousands of travellers since Wednesday when the Eyjafjallajokull volcano began erupting for the second time in a month, hurling a plume of ash 11km (seven miles) into the atmosphere.
Obama and the Republicans have kept hurling accusations of bad faith at one another until the automatic budget cuts that both sides once deemed unthinkable loomed.
As long as it's engaged in light-hurling bouts of force, or motorcycle chases through a landscape so ominously enveloping it looks like "Blade Runner" after gentrification, "TRON: Legacy" is a catchy popcorn pleasure.
Even before Mr Cunningham made his unexpected announcement Welsh farmers, hit by falling beef prices and the continuing European Union ban on British beef exports, had been blockading ports and hurling imports of Irish beef into the sea.
Video of the incident showed rioters hurling glass bottles and other debris at security teams in Haren, which is located 115 miles (185 kilometers) northeast of Amsterdam and is home to about 20, 000 residents.
Banish any images of rock legend: forget about dissipated drummers slumped in a junkie haze in some stadium locker room, forget roadies hurling televisions and empty bottles of Jack Daniels from hotel balconies into the pool.
Three years ago a male northern cardinal, or Cardinalis cardinalis, began hurling himself against the windows of our solar home.
Like the Giants, the Niners practice that quaint, old-fashioned NFL technique of stopping the ball in addition to hurling it as fast as possible down the field.
As a young man Jack Lynch (he was never John) gained fame in his native Cork in Gaelic football, in which players can use their hands as well as their feet, and in hurling, an Irish form of hockey.
Parents of the Jena 6 say they heard Barker was hurling racial epithets, but Barker's parents insist he did nothing to provoke the attack.
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He also heaved Harbhajan over deep mid-wicket for a six and captain Ricky Ponting (39no) was no slouch either as they hurried to the target, leaving one section of the home fans to register their disapproval by hurling bottles on to the field.
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Imagine 33 large pick-up trucks hurling towards you at five times the speed of sound.
It all began with a gust powerful enough to blow a large slat of wood loose from a construction site and send it hurling into a storefront with a slam, spraying shattered glass everywhere.
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I, for one, have no interest in hurling down a mountain at speeds in excess of 90 miles-per-hour after having a couple pops, so it comes as something of a surprise to discover that some Olympic skiers are also world-class booze-hounds.
The torch started its morning in Dublin with a "skywalk" over a glass section of the new roof at Croke Park stadium, carried by hurling player Henry Shefflin.
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In the 1830s, Tocqueville noted that Americans were "restless in the midst of abundance, " always moving, always working and perpetually hurling themselves into one new business venture after another.
Anger over Mr. Gray's killing was evident late Monday, when a group of about 40 people splintered from a peaceful vigil and began hurling bottles at officers at the 67th Precinct in East Flatbush.
For example, Aqua Attack is an installation involving costume-clad heroes and villains hurling soaked stuffed animals at each other in a war of good and evil.
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