ANST - Wierdness of the potentially fatal kind

[Shane B. Internet Consultant & CyberGaddabout]

Having experienced the difficulty of helping put one of these together
firsthand I do not rate this very high on my list of worries that someone
would be inspired to do this.  I would place jumping without parachutes a
wee bit higher.[grin]

Alastair


>There is good reason I did not post the URL for the site of the
>trebuchet rider.  My silence was a public service.  I feared others
>might be inspired to this sort of lunacy.  It strikes me as the
>"adult"(?) version of jumping off the roof with a parachute made of a
>bedsheet.  Woe unto him who tries this with insufficient engineering
>knowledge, or without a deep river handy for a landing site.  I hoped
>that the public would get a laught from the thought, and be satisfied to
>do without the details.
>
>However, if you insist on being exposed to dangerous ideas, with the
>reminder that your life is your own do I post this URL.
>
>	http://www.rlt.com/pub/trebuchet/topstory.html
>
>Hide this from your children.  If you are inspired to try this, I am not
>responsible.  You are an adult.  You are responsible for yourself.  The
>secretary disavows any knowledge of your actions.
>
>	Tomonaga
>
>P.S.
>I was wrong; it's only a semi-comfy chair.
>
>-- 
>A long bow and a strong bow,
>And let the sky grow dark.
>The nock to the cord, the shaft to the ear,
>And a foreign king for a mark!
>
>      --  Stolen from "The Song of the Bosonian Archers"  --
>                by Robert E. Howard, who should be
>                  the patron saint of Ansteorra
>============================================================================
>Go to http://www.ansteorra.org/lists.html to perform mailing list tasks.
> 
============================================================================
Go to http://www.ansteorra.org/lists.html to perform mailing list tasks.