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Re: Trunion

To: "Will O'Brien" <hobrien@webos1.com>
Subject: Re: Trunion
From: Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net>
Date: Sat, 09 May 1998 19:47:58 -0700
Piano!  I think it was Monty Python who hurled cows

Will O'Brien wrote:
> 
> Did he ever hurl cows?
> 
> At 06:45 PM 5/9/98 -0700, Joe Curry wrote:
> >Jeff Johnson wrote:
> >
> >> 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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> Will O'Brien
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> will@students.missouri.edu
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-- 
"If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort."

 -- Dave Weinbaum in National Enquirer

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