The Buckets by Greg Cravens for February 07, 2016

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Fetch! That's a cute dog. Did you know, in its original form, that toy was the invention that allowed people to throw sharp sticks harder and farther? Different societies all over the world use them to provide enough food for their ways of life to continue. They were called atatl or woomera. Some of them are so old they have little woolly mammoths carved on them. Fetch! You might say they were one of the inventions that started mankind on the path that resulted in our modern world. And it's a really cute dog toy. Yeah, the blue ones. The orange ones are ugly.