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Bruce L. Bergman
 
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Default Pictures of pumpkin cannon

On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 02:40:32 GMT, Don Bruder wrote:
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Artemia Salina wrote:
On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 16:41:40 -0400, wayne mak wrote:


Heres a link to the cannon, it shoots those gords to hell and gone.
http://www.motherearthrecycling.net/pumpkin/pumpkin.htm


Ooooohhhhhhh! The brute-force elevation control is a nice touch.

Very nice!
Last I heard I the Aludium Q-36 Pumpkin Modulator was the record
holder, firing a pumpkin more than 4400 feet. Yes, nearly a statute
mile! That was back in 1998. I wonder if they've passed the mile mark
yet.
Someone may one day beat that record, but they'll *never* beat that name!


Ahhhh, but there's one critical question left unanswered...

marvinWhere's the Earth-shattering ka-boom? There's supposed to be an
Earth-shattering ka-boom!/marvin

Sorry... You knew that SOMEBODY had to do it!


If you'da hadn't, I'da dunnit. ;-P

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