General Climbing Discussion

Topic	Date	User
You're Terminated. Fantastic.	19-Oct-2016 At 11:17:46 AM	hero
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The furphy, as in a rumour comes not from Tom Collins (Joseph Furphy) but from his brother John who made the water carts that went to WWI. Popular conjecture is that it was yarns told about the cart but there are other theories. A sandbag is a much more deliberate and often malicious (I looking at you Queenslanders) falsehood, designed to scare the shit out of someone (or sadly in tamer times to make them fail). One theory is that it comes from the theatre, when a sandbag fell from the rigging it could kill you. Pedant rule!

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