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Post by Smoggy on Oct 16, 2006 12:54:30 GMT -4
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Post by Rodeo Jock on Oct 16, 2006 13:07:13 GMT -4
Yeah, I did a story on it when I was working for the Discovery Channel Online! It was a great story. The entire festival is just to throw punkins! THey do it by hand, sling, and even catapolt!! If you have the chance, you should go!
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Post by Scottyg on Oct 16, 2006 13:15:23 GMT -4
oooh that is tempting
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Post by walshmobile on Oct 16, 2006 13:33:23 GMT -4
what about pumpkin cannons?
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Post by Rodeo Jock on Oct 16, 2006 13:35:37 GMT -4
what about pumpkin cannons? If you can design it and it chucks punkins, then you can bring it along! I've been wanting to go see it, too. Maybe next year we can do a DC Star Kickball Punkin Chuckin Machine... of course, it would have to tag up first if someone catches the punkin... |
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Post by Smoggy on Oct 16, 2006 13:53:07 GMT -4
The goal is to chunk pumpkins the farthest without using explosives...or so I read.
Might actually go that Saturday.....be cool to see what happens when pseudo-engineers get drunk and think up ways to chuck Halloween surplus.
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Post by walshmobile on Oct 16, 2006 14:01:45 GMT -4
ah but compressed air isn't an explosive and at a good number of PSI can do some powerful things
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Post by Scottyg on Oct 16, 2006 14:10:05 GMT -4
Attempting to catch pumpkins that have flown 3000+ feet through the air sounds like something you'd see on Jackass...that would have to hurt.
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Post by MA on Oct 16, 2006 15:12:15 GMT -4
I still have a potato gun that I made way back in high school. That thing was really fun. Shove a potato down the tube, spray in some hairspray (aquanet was by far the best, and cheapest at cvs), hit the grill igniter and Boom! It would go pretty far too. About 300 yards or so. Ah, good times. But I guess you couldn't bring that to the pumpkin chucking thing, they would probably consider it an explosive.
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Post by Rodeo Jock on Oct 16, 2006 15:20:29 GMT -4
MattAllen, your level of geekness never ceases to amaze me! ;D
You should bring that to the games on Sunday.
And that you know that Aquanet is cheap is kinda scarey. The only people I know that know facts like that are drag queens... LOL
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Post by leslieg135 on Oct 16, 2006 15:21:12 GMT -4
Hmmm potato party at the treehouse?
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Post by felinegroovy on Oct 16, 2006 15:32:37 GMT -4
MA - you should meet my friend Nick. He made a potato gun in HS or college and used to shoot that off at the park in Cheverly. we had to run formthe cops once for being there after dark.... He also had a proposal for a class for making a potato gun that would shoot a half mile. He had to design one or something - but not actually build it..
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Post by sh3lby on Oct 16, 2006 16:13:23 GMT -4
I have built a many of them =)
pvc pipe..$10
Ignigtor..$5
Can of hairspray.. $4.60
Potatoes.. $4.99
Being able to shoot a potatoes across the country side.. priceless.. there are some things money can't buy, for everything else a hick needs, there's pennies and nickels.
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Post by felinegroovy on Oct 16, 2006 17:09:34 GMT -4
you could always spend saturday at the inner harbor watching poeple jump/fly into the water in their man-made costumes and vehicles
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