In article <[email protected]>, Lazarus Long
<[email protected]> wrote:
> When trebuchets are outlawed, only outlaws will have trebuchets.
Trebuchets don't kill people, big rocks kill people.
djb
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On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 14:49:13 -0600, Dave Balderstone
<[email protected]> wrote:
>In article <[email protected]>, Lazarus Long
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> When trebuchets are outlawed, only outlaws will have trebuchets.
>
>Trebuchets don't kill people, big rocks kill people.
>
>djb
ROFL!!!
"T." <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> http://www.will.net.au/treb/bigtreb.htm
I've wondered a bit why someone would build one of these things. I guess
they're the woodworking equivalent getting busy with a paint ball gun or
fragging all the bad guys in some online game.
Wed, Feb 4, 2004, 6:07am (EST+5) [email protected] (Upscale) claims:
I've wondered a bit why someone would build one of these things. <snip>
I've read, and re-read, that sentence, over and over. Still
doesn't make a bit of sense. You don't need a reason to make one.
Well, unless you're pissed and want to storm your neighbor's castle,
that's a pretty good reason.
JOAT
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"T." <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Wed, Feb 4, 2004, 6:07am (EST+5) [email protected] (Upscale) claims:
> I've wondered a bit why someone would build one of these things. <snip>
> I've read, and re-read, that sentence, over and over. Still
> doesn't make a bit of sense. You don't need a reason to make one.
Actually, it was a statement's to man's desire to hurl things with a minimum
of effort. Storming your neighbour's castle is only an invitation to hurl
them in a particular direction.
Wed, Feb 4, 2004, 9:00am (EST+5) [email protected] (Upscale) claims:
Actually, it was a statement's to man's desire to hurl things with a
minimum of effort. <snip>
Minium of effort? With one of those things? I don't think so.
Sounds like it could be work, pulling that arm back down. Probably
woulda been more correct to assert, man's desire to say, "Wow, look at
that thing go". LMAO I have just GOT to go to that punkin chunkin'
contest one year.
JOAT
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- Pete Maccarrone
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"Upscale" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<N_%[email protected]>...
> "T." <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > http://www.will.net.au/treb/bigtreb.htm
>
> I've wondered a bit why someone would build one of these things.
This guy now owns a working trebuchet. I don't, do you?
'Nuff said.
;)
On 4 Feb 2004 05:26:54 -0800, [email protected] (Mike Reed)
wrote:
>"Upscale" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<N_%[email protected]>...
>> "T." <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>> > http://www.will.net.au/treb/bigtreb.htm
>>
>> I've wondered a bit why someone would build one of these things.
>
>This guy now owns a working trebuchet.
I wanna watch when the cops come around and ask to see his license for
that seige weapon.
When trebuchets are outlawed, only outlaws will have trebuchets. ;)
Upscale wrote:
> I've wondered a bit why someone would build one of these things. I guess
> they're the woodworking equivalent getting busy with a paint ball gun or
> fragging all the bad guys in some online game.
I built a small one. Why? Because hurling things with a heavy, well-built
machine is a hell of a lot of fun, and because building such a machine and
watching the crazy thing actually work is a hell of a lot of fun.
Highly recommended. Just be careful you don't hurl an apple over a 20' high
concrete wall and onto a busy highway. Oops. ;) (I was trying to *hit*
the wall, not throw over it.)
(Vandalism, arguably, even temporary graffiti, but neither is anything a
little rain won't cure.)
(For the starving people in China crowd, it was a half-rotten apple.)
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