RE: Whatever......

[Graffy/Carpenter <egraffy@earthlink.net>]

It was in a Northern Exposure episode that they flung a piano with a 
catapult. Chris, the town's radio DJ in the story, came up with the idea to 
do it with a cow as performance art, but was convinced by others that the 
artistic value wasn't worth the cruelty to animals factor. The piano 
surfaced as an alternative when Maggie's got ruined in a house fire. It 
wasn't just trick photography, either. They actually built a catapult and 
flung a piano with it for the episode. Very funny.


At 07:25 AM 1/15/01 -0500, you wrote:
>They built one for throwing pumpkins a couple weeks ago on Junkyard Wars 
>on TLC.  (If you don't watch that, you're missing out!)  It was pretty 
>small, but it was extremely cool.  I heard about a guy in England who was 
>building them to throw cars.  His goal was to throw a bus.  I don't know 
>if he ever made it...
>
>
>Aaron
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org 
>[mailto:owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of Shannon Fenton
>Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 7:23 AM
>To: VWMikeLVW@aol.com; desinor@sympatico.ca
>Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: RE: Whatever......
>
>Hey...I like Star Trek dammit! My dad being the fruitcake that he is, has 
>for years contemplated build a contraption like the one shown. He wants 
>his to be able throw cars. There was a TV show on awhile back where they 
>had one large enough to throw a grand piano almost a 1/4 mile! Wouldnt it 
>be cool to fling a Ford Fiesta!!! But then again Im from the midwest, land 
>of potato cannons and home made napalm for fun!
>
>Shut up Hoonole'
>
>
>Shannon Fenton
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org 
>[mailto:owner-scirocco-l@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of VWMikeLVW@aol.com
>Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 10:09 PM
>To: desinor@sympatico.ca
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>Subject: Re: Whatever......
>
>In a message dated 1/12/01 7:42:03 PM Pacific Standard Time,
>desinor@sympatico.ca writes:
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>>  Good thing we no longer live in those barbaric ages, he might have
>>lost his head!
>>
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>Yeah... I bet they didn't like dorks in medeival times either. Shall we start
>taking bets on this guy? I bet he works in a comic book store and has every
>episode of star trek on tape. I think he deserves a good ass kicking....
>
>Mike
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