[Sca-cooks] Re: Raw Eggs and Bagpipes

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Brett McNamara:
>A basic flour and water mixture should suffice for this.  Applying it
>yourself could be problematic, however.  I'd recommend convincing the
>piper your magic paste will make the thing sound, ahem, better. ;)

I think we need to examine the possibilities behind using raw 
potatoes, which would not only have value (presumably) as air and 
sound dampers, but also a ballistic potential.

Adamantius, who likes bagpipes, but also has a nifty book called 
"Backyard Ballistics", about making various "toy" cannons out of 
household items

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>On Mon, 06 Sep 2004 13:46:44 -0400, Martha Oser <osermart at msu.edu> wrote:
>>  > *giggle* this subject title made me wonder if you can stop up a bagpipe
>>  > the same way as a radiator with a raw egg... "Hey!  Look over there!  A
>>  > dying moose!" (as you quickly and quietly pour the egg into the dude's
>>  > chanter...)
>>  >
>>  > -Magdalena vander Brugghe
>>
>>  Hmm, well you could conceivably plug the pipes with hard-boiled eggs...
>>
>>   -Helena
>>
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