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[Padraig Ruad O'Maolagain]

Sluggy said -

>I still like Connell's idea to arrive on site with a ballista loaded
>with a landscape timber that has a duct-taped basketball on the end of
>it. Doesn't matter whether you actually shoot it or not, just the threat
>that your ballista _can_ shoot it is enough to negotiate a surrender....
>
>I think the entire Cold War was based on this premise....

Ah yes, the principle of Mutually Assinine Delusions.  But I think the principle that really applies to the landscape timber/basketball ballista bolt is "I've got a MUCH bigger stick than you do."

Padraig

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---------- Original Message ------------------------
From: Sluggy <slugmusk at home.com>
Reply-To: loch-ruadh at ansteorra.org
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 13:18:42 -0500

Padraig Ruad O'Maolagain wrote:

> Oh, I don't know.  It might be interesting to put a ballista bolt THROUGH the gate in the fort. <G>

I still like Connell's idea to arrive on site with a ballista loaded
with a landscape timber that has a duct-taped basketball on the end of
it. Doesn't matter whether you actually shoot it or not, just the threat
that your ballista _can_ shoot it is enough to negotiate a surrender....

I think the entire Cold War was based on this premise....

Sluggy!

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