Piano! I think it was Monty Python who hurled cows
Will O'Brien wrote:
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> Did he ever hurl cows?
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> 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."
> >
> > -- Dave Weinbaum in National Enquirer
> >
> >
>
> Will
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"If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort."
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