But beyond the bad-natured bantering, some messages were being lobbed across the plexiglass net.
Kipling is credited with having invented "snow golf," a game in which golf balls, painted red, were lobbed across Naulakha's sloping 500-foot-long meadow when the snow was crusty.
Whether wrapped around the performers or lobbed across the stage, newspaper pages are a constant visual reminder of the relationships between men and girls that we are used to seeing in the media.
There was, of course, no A-Rod sighting, just a sigh and a wry smile from Jeter when the Joe Torre book question that had to be asked was lobbed across the celebrity rope line.
"How many children do you have?" A common, get-to-know-you question lobbed across tables, down pews and in the check-out line at the grocery store.
Turkish and U.S. officials agree the massacre was likely the work of the extremist group, which has repeatedly targeted Turkey with suicide bombs, firearms and Katyusha rockets lobbed across the border.
Nobody really has any clue of how to reverse the effects of a millennium spent abusing the ground that we walk on, or how to redistribute wealth in a manner that might end poverty or extinguish the Molotovs being lobbed across the planet.
But in an age when attackers travel in jetliners, carry satellite phones and lob missiles across borders, the idea of constructing walls and fences to defend one's nation seems somehow quaint.
But Hawke makes it clear that the opportunity to lob shots across the bow from the male point of view is not what drives him.
Snipers hunt in the no man's lands that divide the city, both sides lob shells across the front lines, and regime airstrikes have reduced much of the east to rubble.
