[Lowfer] 2200m-vention and close down

Wed, 14 Jan 2004 16:09:02 -0500

> or whatever the Monty Python line was.

Ah, a man of culture!

Perhaps you were referring to Scene 8 in "Holy Grail" where Arthur and his
knights of the round table come across the French castle:

FRENCH GUARD:  You don't frighten us, English pig-dogs!  Go and boil your
    bottom, sons of a silly person.  I blow my nose at you, so-called Arthur
    King, you and all your silly English k-nnnnniggets.  Thpppppt!  Thppt!
    Thppt!
GALAHAD:  What a strange person.
ARTHUR:  Now look here, my good man--
FRENCH GUARD:  I don't wanna talk to you no more, you empty headed animal
    food trough wiper!  I fart in your general direction!  Your mother was a
    hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!
GALAHAD:  Is there someone else up there we could talk to?
FRENCH GUARD:  No.  Now, go away, or I shall taunt you a second time-a!

Or later when they encounter the castle again:

FRENCH GUARD:  How you English say, 'I one more time, mac, unclog my nose in
    your direction', sons of a window-dresser!  So, you think you could out-
    clever us French folk with your silly knees-bent running about advancing
    behavior?!  I wave my private parts at your aunties, you cheesy lot of
    second hand electric donkey-bottom biters.

But I think that is a little strong, in this context.

All quotes from the script (in my possession). Copyright. Used without
permission.

Mike
wm1ke

> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 11:53 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Lowfer] 2200m-vention and close down
>
>
> I saw a discussion on one ham radio newsgroup a few years ago
> regarding the
> use of guns as aids for putting up Field Day antennas. One person detailed
> the procedure for using a rifle fitted with a grenade launcher --
> preferably
> using dummy grenades. For us poor civilians who don't have access to such
> hardware, another suggestion was to use a potato cannon, for
> which there are
> many designs available on the Web. All it takes is some PVC pipe and a
> little hair spray or propane. Neither technique is likely to make you very
> popular with the neighbors, though.
>
> I have also seen specials on the Discovery channels about punkin chunkin'
> contests and reconstructions of various middle-age trebuchets. With those,
> Bill A might be able to skip the intermediate steps and launch
> 3/4 inch pipe
> directly. I'm not sure what the appropriate warning would be
> prior to such a
> launch. "Fore!" may not be adequate. Maybe something more like "Take that,
> you gravy sucking pigs!", or whatever the Monty Python line was.
>
> Lyle, K0LR
>
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