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Potato Bazookas

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the in-times-of-desperation dept.

Zog The Undeniable writes "The latest craze in Germany is "Kartoffelkanone" or potato bazookas. These use hairspray ignited by a spark to fire potatoes at colossal speeds. The authorities are not amused." Everyone needs a hobby I guess.

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  1. Re:surprising by Amroarer · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Umm...call me a pedant (and an off-topic pedant at that!) but I think you'll find that Boromir was the brother of Faramir. They were both sons of Denethor II, who was the ruling Steward of Gondor at the start of the LotR story.

    (This refers to the previous poster's sig, in case you have sigs turned off and think I'm just gibbering.)

  2. Rednecks in WV by Xandar01 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I went to a family picnic in West Virginia back in 96, and one of my wife's cousins had one there. It was great fun!! Funny thing about rednecks, since I was visiting from California (thus a "city boy") they figured I wouldn't know how to handle the thing. I fired it just as well as any of them. Probably the most exciting event was seeing who could shoot the potato the highest. Firing the potato in the little creak followed that. The novelty wore off quickly though, not to mention all our ammo was now a the bottom of a creek.

    Even better, later in that same visit they decided to take me muddin', at night. So they grab two old bronco's and start climbing the hills. The one I am in gets stuck and the carburetor catches fire. After they put that truck out using their t-shirts, we all climb into the other truck. Oops, they left the lights on after shutting the truck off. (The battery was dead and they had jumped it just to take it muddin'.) Now all these rednecks are bitchin' and moaning about how we were going to have to walk back a couple of miles (Nothing to me really, I've "humped" further than that in the Corps.) What does the "city boy" do?
    "How about push starting it? It is a manual."

    I tell ya, sometimes people are just funny.

    --
    Life moves pretty fast; if you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. -FB
  3. Re:Hardly new by Afrosheen · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Pop cans? Hell, a few years ago my friends and I used to use those tall tennis ball cans. Since we used tennis balls...hey, there's the logic for you. Get a 3 pack and some hairspray, and go terrorize the cat.