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Location: Round Rock, TX | You might want to have an extra set of internal organs on standby as well. |
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Location: closely held secret | Wow. You should try that, Jeff. Maybe we can put you into orbit. |
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Location: big island | Originally posted by The Wabbit Formerly Known As Waskel:
Wow. You should try that, Jeff. Maybe we can put you into orbit. Boney Satellite Bailey |
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Location: CT | I wonder if thy have slingshot insurance for accidental death. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | that'd be, "Boney Geosynchronous Bailey."
Having experience with these sorts of things, I know, there was some effort put into establishing the draw and release angle. A little too much or not quite enough and she's a skidmark. But, ya gotta admit, that'd be a helluva ride.... |
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Location: closely held secret | Especially if the sling returned with nothing but a pair of pants in it. |
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| Now if they put an arrow in it...... |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | This may well be the answer to the M-I-L launcher |
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| :D
She arrived for a long weekend today. I had completely forotten she was coming. When she rang fromm the station for me to go and pick her up I nearly had a heart attack.
Build one of these immediately. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Originally posted by Jeff W.:
This may well be the answer to the M-I-L launcher Put your cards down, folks, and take a rest. We have ourselves a winner. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I don't think I'd want to do that. |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Originally posted by cwk2:
I don't think I'd want to do that. What? Launch your mother-in-law?
Just tell me where to buy the rubber. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | I had to wait until I got home to watch this (Big Brother don't allow You Tube).
If there was ever a recipe for death and dismemberment concocted this side of the Dark Ages this is it.
All of my Parental Intuitions cringed.
Can I go next? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | :D . . . . . . . . . . . :eek: |
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| I can't believe this isn't something to do with you and that death-obsessed-insane company of yours. It is right up your alley. You could save gas money by getting the Breeze to pull the elastic. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | I wouldn't trust Breeze any farther than she could throw me...
(I actually have a design in my file I did about a year or more ago that shares a lot in common with it, though it doesn't use an ATV and stays sub-sonic) |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | Ok now you've done it..Hot Tea is all over the place....
That video put a whole new twist on Bungee jumping..
i guess now everyone will want to try it...
so, ..when is your turn?? :eek: :D |
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| Or of course you could just launch them in the trebuchet with a bunjee rope attached. And get them to hold a balloon between their teeth and you could shoot it out with the longbow. |
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Location: closely held secret | Trebuchet launch with a parachute!
Or, for the REAL thrillseekers - a 9 foot trampoline somewhere downrange. 3 or 4 tries, and you ought to be pretty close. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Didn't you guys do stuff like this when you were kids? Drive cars to see if you can get them airbourne? Or, putting your neighbors little brother in a shopping cart, covered in bottle rockets and launching him down a mountain? Seeing what happens if you hold a fire cracker in your open palm? Windsurfing out of sight of land?
Christ I'm lucky to be alive |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | They didn't have windsurfers when I was young. I just jumped motorcycles. |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
I just jumped motorcycles. tip: It's easier when they're laying on their side. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I once tried to talk a friend into sitting on his motorcycle, standing or even lying down and taking a picture as I jumped my motorcycle over him. The turd refused. We could have been stars in the first Jackass movie. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I guess the difference between the stupidity of today's kids and us, is that we didn't have video cameras to memorialize it. With no pictures, it's easier to forget that time we hoped a train that didn't stop until we got to Binghamton and had to hitch home, or the time we boiled lead stolen from the police range, or the time we skate boarded to a party and got so stoned that .... god, it goes on and on. |
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OT: Bring an Extra Pair of Pants
