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Isn't it a little early for Pennsic War Practice?

Yup, that's next month. We're trying to get a second ballista crew ready to authorize at War Practice, so we're having our own ballista practices.

Uh, 'cause the southern half of the household I'm in is a bit crazy. But that's okay, we have an ER doc. (Mind you, he's the one who thinks three ballistas are better than one.)

/sca.
 

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And we shoot people with it.

:D

Mind you, the bolts are soft-ish. Um, for ballista bolts, anyway.
 

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Also, since no one else seems to have asked, what's a ballista?

:Wha:

See, I didn't ask because I already knew, neener neener! I prefer the trebuchets, myself. Much more glamorous, though they don't aim as good.
 

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You guys are such a bunch of geeks. Come on, this is the 21st century. Only geeks would even know what trebuchets and ballistae are. Geeks.*

Where were you when I was in high school? I would not have known who to fall in love with.

*Please notice that I am showing my own geek cred by knowing the proper plural of ballista.
 

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You guys are such a bunch of geeks. Come on, this is the 21st century. Only geeks would even know what trebuchets and ballistae are. Geeks.*

Where were you when I was in high school? I would not have known who to fall in love with.

*Please notice that I am showing my own geek cred by knowing the proper plural of ballista.

:D

I can just see that conversation at the lockers:

Debio: Hey, Junely, you done the math homework yet?

Junely: *simpers* Not yet! You wanna come over to my house? We can work on it together.

Debio: I don't know.

Junely: Come on! After, we can go in the backyard and play with my siege engines!

Debio: I'm so there, babe!

:Sun:
 
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See. I would have been caught. There is no escaping a girl with siege engines.
 

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One of the folks that worked on the ballista teaches physics. He spent the ride back from Mississippi figuring out how to use the ballista in the lecture he had the next day.

Yes, we're very geeky.
 

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See, I didn't ask because I already knew, neener neener! I prefer the trebuchets, myself. Much more glamorous, though they don't aim as good.

Trebuchets I know. (Thank you, Mythbusters.)

Siege engines, I know.

The ballista was new to me, however.

:D
 

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Cheers folks :)

Though I do know what collagen is :tongue

See. I would have been caught. There is no escaping a girl with siege engines.

Quote book it Cobra!

In other news, today I met a business woman who had no clue how to be business like. She very rapidly degraded to 'Yeah, fine, but I bet your not even coming back' :eek: Yeah, now that you've totally insulted me and made me FULLY unwelcome, I guess I'm not. Self fulfillig prophecy right there.

The long version is to long to thumb type.
 

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Also, I want a ballista. Gina, do you need another crew member?? :D
 

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If I can't fire one like this one, I have no interest.

Yeah, that would be ridiculous amounts of fun.

I have friends who built a much smaller-scale one and use it to throw pinatas across their yard.

ETA: I seem to recall some big Mechanical Engineering mag had an article with the specs for one some few decades back. I actually considered building a small one, but my yard was too tiny. (Huh, looks like I'm going to have a larger yard soon...)
 

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Yeah, that would be ridiculous amounts of fun.

I have friends who built a much smaller-scale one and use it to throw pinatas across their yard.

ETA: I seem to recall some big Mechanical Engineering mag had an article with the specs for one some few decades back. I actually considered building a small one, but my yard was too tiny. (Huh, looks like I'm going to have a larger yard soon...)

See, you are thinking about this all wrong. Your yard only needs to be big enough to hold the trebuchet itself.

Where the missile lands is someone else's problem. That is the whole point of trebuchets after all. :evil
 
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