“He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her” is from the New Testament John 8:7. “Cast” is also a fishing term. “He who casts the first stone…really needs to start thinking about fishing lessons” was a tweet by comedian Sean Hagarty on December 29, 2010.
The joke was posted on Sickipedia in July 2013:
“He who casts the first stone..
..isn’t coming fishing again.”
Wiktionary: let him who is without sin cast the first stone
Etymology
An allusion to an utterance of Jesus’ in John 8:7, viz. “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.”
Phrase
let him who is without sin cast the first stone
1. Only those who are faultless have the right to pass judgment upon others (implying that no one is faultless and that, therefore, no one has such a right to pass judgment).
Twitter
Sean Hegarty
@Sean_Hegarty
He who casts the first stone…really needs to start thinking about fishing lessons.
10:32 AM - 29 Dec 2010
Belfast Telegraph (UK)
Comedian Sean Hegarty out to play his joker as fastest stand-up in world
PUBLISHED
04/02/2011
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. He who casts the first stone should really consider fishing lessons.
Twitter
Wicked Rhetoric
@WickedRhetoric
He who casts the first stone has just used really strange fishing bait.
1:21 PM - 15 May 2011
Twitter
Bobs
@CiaranM87
He who casts the first stone need only invest in a fishing rod. #wankybollocks
9:47 AM - 24 Aug 2011
Sickipedia
He who casts the first stone..
..isn’t coming fishing again.
Joke added 2 years, 6 months ago by jack the gripper in Other > Idioms
Twitter
Soraya
@sorayasaikal
He who casts the first stone….isn’t coming fishing again.
11:37 PM - 10 Jul 2013
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
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