Why is THIS STILL not MODELED!?!?!?!

USSMaine · Post by **USSMaine** » Wed Mar 05, 2003 6:07 am

speaking as someone who has picked more potatoes than everyone on this forum will ever eat - I find all this hiliarous !!

Thanks guys and watch out for them spuds !!

Drex · Post by **Drex** » Wed Mar 05, 2003 6:25 am

Gbirk: were those hits mashed or unmashed?

Point Luck · Post by **Point Luck** » Wed Mar 05, 2003 6:31 am

were those hits mashed or unmashed?

It's obvious that IJN had her tubes loaded with French Fried

Drex · Post by **Drex** » Wed Mar 05, 2003 7:54 am

Point Luck: I like you! Somehow we think alike. How about a game?

Chijohnaok2 · Post by **Chijohnaok2** » Wed Mar 05, 2003 8:03 am

When I was in college my fraternity made use of potatoes on several occasions in conflicts with the fraternity across the street from us. We had a giant slingshot made of of medical tubing and a funnel. We used both baked and raw potatoes as ammunition.

I even recall on one occasion when our supply of baked and raw potatoes were exhausted, we called into the kitchen for potatoes of any kind and were promptly brought a platter of au grautin potatoes. They had a devastating effect at very close range but were worthless at a distance of greater than 20 feet or so.

John

Drex · Post by **Drex** » Wed Mar 05, 2003 8:12 am

Au Gratin! Why didn't my frat ( ZBT) ever think of that? Any how the Geneva Convention definitely prohibited that!

Chijohnaok2 · Post by **Chijohnaok2** » Wed Mar 05, 2003 8:26 am

The ZBT house was outside of launcher range from our house (Theta Xi). The frat we tangled with most ofted was LXA.

John

Drex · Post by **Drex** » Wed Mar 05, 2003 8:37 am

No offense but back in my day (1969) theta Chi was a joke!

Cap Mandrake · Post by **Cap Mandrake** » Wed Mar 05, 2003 9:09 am

Originally posted by chijohnaok
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I even recall on one occasion when our supply of baked and raw potatoes were exhausted, we called into the kitchen for potatoes of any kind and were promptly brought a platter of au grautin potatoes. They had a devastating effect at very close range but were worthless at a distance of greater than 20 feet or so.

John

Excerpted from the memoirs of Capt. John Oak, commander of Battery A, 1st Idaho Volunteers (Boise Tubers) describing the fighting during the repulse of Pickett's Division on the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg. Cannister ammunition (also called au gratin shot) was responsible for grievous casualties at close range among........

Drex · Post by **Drex** » Wed Mar 05, 2003 9:29 am

Au Gratin Shot! Yes of course, this explains so many effects of cannister at Gettysburg , Fredricksburg, etc. I think you might have come across a significant effect on civil war casualties.

JohnK · Post by **JohnK** » Wed Mar 05, 2003 11:42 am

Originally posted by chijohnaok
When I was in college my fraternity made use of potatoes on several occasions in conflicts with the fraternity across the street from us. We had a giant slingshot made of of medical tubing and a funnel. We used both baked and raw potatoes as ammunition.

"Potato Guns" have been popular in the US for years, but they're catching on elsewhere.....

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0, ... 70,00.html

GERMAN youths have taken up a dangerous new pastime: firing potatoes as fast as a rocket from “bazookas” made from drainage pipes. One man almost lost an eye, a woman had her leg broken and one teenager was badly burnt when the hairspray used as the propellant exploded in his face as he prepared to fire.

A 16-year-old in the university city of Göttingen lost part of his ear when the firing chamber ripped open as he pulled the trigger.

The so-called Kartoffelkanone are made from piping and masking tape bought at any hardware store. With a range of 200 metres they could split a man’s head at 15 metres and penetrate a wooden wall at 90 metres."

Cap Mandrake · Post by **Cap Mandrake** » Wed Mar 05, 2003 7:32 pm

Originally posted by JohnK

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[BGERMAN youths have taken up a dangerous new pastime: firing potatoes as fast as a rocket from “bazookas” made from drainage pipes. <snip>.

The so-called Kartoffelkanone are made from piping and masking tape bought at any hardware store. With a range of 200 metres they could split a man’s head at 15 metres and penetrate a wooden wall at 90 metres." [/B]

The Potatofaust

Admiral DadMan · Post by **Admiral DadMan** » Wed Mar 05, 2003 8:19 pm

If the barrel of the cannon were rifled, maybe it could achieve greater distance and accuracy...

Drex · Post by **Drex** » Wed Mar 05, 2003 8:29 pm

I wonder if twice-baked potatoes would have a better spread pattern?

mbatch729 · Post by **mbatch729** » Wed Mar 05, 2003 9:06 pm

Originally posted by Drex
Au Gratin! Why didn't my frat ( ZBT) ever think of that? Any how the Geneva Convention definitely prohibited that!

Ah, Drex one doubts you were in a fraternity. Standing order #1, you don't call your fraternity a frat because you don't call your country a ....

Drex · Post by **Drex** » Wed Mar 05, 2003 9:14 pm

But I was in Zeta Beta Tau(Beta Pi chapter) and I can call my fraternity a frat if I want to.

Admiral DadMan · Post by **Admiral DadMan** » Wed Mar 05, 2003 10:03 pm

Originally posted by Cap Mandrake
The Potatofaust

You mean Kartoffelfaust (lit. Potato Fist)

Or, even more literal: Kartoffelspritzring (lit. Potato thrower)

Hey! My high school German comes in handy!

Admiral DadMan · Post by **Admiral DadMan** » Wed Mar 05, 2003 10:08 pm

Sam-Bin-Ich, mag ich nicht grüne Eier und Schinken!

(Sam-I-Am, I do not like green eggs and ham!)

denisonh · Post by **denisonh** » Thu Mar 06, 2003 2:06 am

Originally posted by Admiral DadMan
Sam-Bin-Ich, mag ich nicht grüne Eier und Schinken!

(Sam-I-Am, I do not like green eggs and ham!)

Was that with potatoes or grits?

Point Luck · Post by **Point Luck** » Thu Mar 06, 2003 4:56 am

When I was in college my fraternity made use of potatoes on several occasions in conflicts with the fraternity across the street from us.

I was even sicker than that in high school. In welding shop (Adjacent to Food Prep Class) we would build acetylene mortars and you guessed it used potatoes as rounds. Just to make thing interesting across the parking lot was masonry class well within range of a spud round

Why is THIS STILL not MODELED!?!?!?!

The KARTOFELLKANONE!!!!

Re: The KARTOFELLKANONE!!!!

Frat?!?!

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