Did he ever hurl cows?
At 06:45 PM 5/9/98 -0700, Joe Curry wrote:
>Jeff Johnson wrote:
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>> Here's another for you- trebuchet (from the Old Fr.)- a medieval war
engine-
>> a counterweighted lever that had the ability to hurl large stones. I
vividly
>> recall reading in the Wall Street journal about 15 years ago about this
>> knighted English fellow who used his trebuchet to hurl LBC's, junk grand
>> pianos and sheep carcass' hundreds of yards down the meadow.
>
>Sounds like an episode of "Northern Exposure"
>
>Joe
>
>--
>"If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort."
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> -- Dave Weinbaum in National Enquirer
>
>
Will
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