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Re: Trunion

To: Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net>, jguy@erinet.com
Subject: Re: Trunion
From: "Will O'Brien" <hobrien@webos1.com>
Date: Sat, 09 May 1998 21:51:15 -0500
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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