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The Australian sport of midget tossing or dwarf heaving as it is also known originated in a community of Scottish immegrants to Queensland in the mid 1950's. Since then, the sport has spread to New South South Wales, Victoria and even to New Zealand as recently as 2001 (although Kiwis call it dwarf tossing and claim that they taught Peter Jackson during filming of LOTR). Popular history of the sport tells that it was originated at the end of a sheep shearing season. Shearers would cut off the wool and throw the sheep down a shoot to a holding pen. After they ran out off sheep, but not before they ran out of beer, several enebriated shearers grabed their virtically challanged co-worker, shaved him down and threw him down the shoot. Since then, the tradition of shaving the midget has been co-opted for improving aerodynamics. Today, the sport is very much like caber tossing in that a large scot grabs the midget, stands him virtically (though not necessarily right side up) in both hands and then heaves him end over end into eitheir a sand pit or a water hole. Judging is based on distance of the toss and the acuracy with respect to the midline of the sand pit or water hole.