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    I found an interesting site where you can download the templates for a Paper Trebuchet: http://www.fryerskits.demon.co.uk/treb/ It should keep me amused for a few days. according to the website it can throw grapes 30ft through the air.
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    hater

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    Erm...what?
    Quote Originally Posted by Ranika
    I'm being assailed by a mental midget of ironically epic proportions. Quick as frozen molasses, this one. Sharp as a melted marble. It's disturbing. I've had conversations with a braying mule with more coherence.


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    I think he's still talking about that , '' you hate europe thingy ''
    in that other thread , which you started.
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    Drop it, or the thread gets closed.
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    Can we not bring that topic here Emperor MooMoo, and stick with the paper Trebuchet's?

    P.S thank you Big King.
    Quote Originally Posted by Ranika
    I'm being assailed by a mental midget of ironically epic proportions. Quick as frozen molasses, this one. Sharp as a melted marble. It's disturbing. I've had conversations with a braying mule with more coherence.


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    Default Re: Paper Trebuchet

    once, I built a catapult from a chair, Lego and some shoe laces.

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    I was built a mini crossbow out of glue, elastic bands and ice-pop sticks. IT broke when i tried to fire it a third time, as the stresses on the ice-pop sticks were to large for them.
    Quote Originally Posted by Ranika
    I'm being assailed by a mental midget of ironically epic proportions. Quick as frozen molasses, this one. Sharp as a melted marble. It's disturbing. I've had conversations with a braying mule with more coherence.


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    I'll put confidence in my throwing power and accuracy when throwing grapes/other throwable objects rather than build one of those..

    A ready-made one, however, I would gladly take off your hands..

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    I also could easily throw a grape that far if i wanted, but it's just the pure coolness of owning your own paper trebuchet!! Maybe if it works, i could transfer the same design into a larger wooden version....
    Quote Originally Posted by Ranika
    I'm being assailed by a mental midget of ironically epic proportions. Quick as frozen molasses, this one. Sharp as a melted marble. It's disturbing. I've had conversations with a braying mule with more coherence.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Mikeus Caesar
    I found an interesting site where you can download the templates for a Paper Trebuchet: http://www.fryerskits.demon.co.uk/treb/ It should keep me amused for a few days. according to the website it can throw grapes 30ft through the air.
    Looks good, I'm going to build this one with my kids age 7 and 9.
    No offence, Dad enjoys it just as much...
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    I once built a partice accelerator from a plastic straw, a bag of doritos and some yellow-cake uranium I bought in Africa.
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    Where did you buy the particles?
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    Quote Originally Posted by AdrianII
    Where did you buy the particles?
    they emanate from the uranium, silly.
    now i'm here, and history is vindicated.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Big_John
    they emanate from the uranium, silly.
    Really?
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    that's what the uranium is for.. the particles.. what else would one ever use uranium for?
    now i'm here, and history is vindicated.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Big_John
    that's what the uranium is for.. the particles.. what else would one ever use uranium for?
    To bake the yellow cakes, do'h!
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    I made my own catapult out of wood, rubber bands and nails.

    It's around 2 ft. tall and hurls a 9mm bullet around 80 ft.
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    Yes, I used Betty Crocker's Easy Bake Yellow Cake recipe to make it in high-tensile Aluminum tubes and a portable weapons... I mean, weather balloon railcar I found in Tikrit.
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    Now this story is an illustrious peice in my family history...

    My family was sitting on a beach and i decided to make a ballista. so I picked up a stone to see wether it was a good one and threw it. It bounced off my mum's leg, hit my dad's head and fell into the sea.

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    Question Re: Paper Trebuchet

    What fell in the sea? The rock or your dad?
    Quote Originally Posted by Ranika
    I'm being assailed by a mental midget of ironically epic proportions. Quick as frozen molasses, this one. Sharp as a melted marble. It's disturbing. I've had conversations with a braying mule with more coherence.


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    Good question, and off her leg onto his head? Must have bounced quite well too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AdrianII
    To bake the yellow cakes, do'h!
    I laughed at that. What does that make me?

    Cool link. Some friends of mine built a treb for Science Olympiad. They painted it peptoe pink.


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