Nick <nickSPAMMENOT@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in news:Xns9A9D50F4A43C2NDTCM@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> johnI wrote:
>
>> On May 12, 10:20 pm, Exhibitionist <ro...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> On Mon, 12 May 2008 12:01:06 -0700 (PDT), johnI
>>> <johniwanis...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> scribbled the following on a napkin:
>>>
>>>> On May 12, 1:47 pm, Mark Morrison <bl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, 11 May 2008 22:08:43 +0200 (CEST), John Iwaniszek
>>>
>>>>> <n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>>> My life is one failed home-built trebuchet after another. How
many
>>>>>> Americans can say that?
>>>
>>>>> Why are you failing when medieval man succeeded ?
>>>
>>>> my guess is that I am a bit ahead of medieval man
>>>
>>> http://andypsionfan.users.btopenworld.com/trebindex.html
>>
>> I think I am ahead of this guy, as well.
>>
>> One thing I would dispute is that a treb is gravity powered. It is
>> really human powered where a team of serfs is hitched to a giant rope
>> and lashed in the direction the captain wants the the rope pulled.
>> The energy from the turnips, moldy bread, and weak ale the serfs call
>> "nouvelle cusine" is then stored in the giant suspended weight by
>> taking advantage of the phenomenon of gravity.
>
> Do you have serfs? Perhaps that is where the problem lies.
>
Looking at what he has written it appears that he is sans serfs.
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Stare too long into the abyss and the abyss looks like a nifty place to
hide the bodies
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