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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 !!

Gbirk: were those hits mashed or unmashed?

were those hits mashed or unmashed?

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

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

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

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

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

John

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

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........

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.

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."

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

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

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

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 ....

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

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!

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

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

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?

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