Pumpkin Chunked 4,224 feet

The Leader & State Register ^ | Nov. 8, 2004 | Glenn Rolfe

[martin_fierro]

Do you have Freespace 2 and the 40 additional missions CD for Freespace 1?

[RandallFlagg]

No. Unfortunately my 'puter died over a year ago and have been using my Wife's until I can build my next one (that'll be able to do the Doom 3 thing).

If you're on gamespot.com, look me up and see all that I have:

http://www.gamespot.com/user/profile.html?tag=gs_head_profilegsc

[hchutch]

Gee, they'll catapult ANYTHING overboard that isn't nailed down.

[Poohbah]

And if they can pry it up, it wasn't really nailed down, was it? (c8

[r9etb]

Is Manitou still hippy haven?

A lot of rich hippies live there. Really touristy and new-agey.

[Melas]

Doesn't sound like much as changed. Colorado Springs is my hometown. I lived there until 1994, when I moved to Texas.

[r9etb]

Sounds like a conservation of people thing -- I moved up here at the start of '95 after having spent 9 years, 9 days, and 6 hours living in Houston....

[Melas]

Amazing. I like Colorado Springs, but as an avid motorcyclist, I much prefer Texas and it's 12 month riding season. My only mistake was moving to a tiny town in East Texas when I moved here. It was 9 years of pure hell living in the sticks.

[Xenalyte]

Good Lord, they chunked a pumpkin almost a mile! We are falling behind in this noble endeavor.

[Bacon Man]

Freespace 2, awesome game.

[Thud]

I made a potato cannon out of a school bus when I was twelve.

I stuck it in the bus's tail pipe. The driver started the bus, noticed his idle was rough and rev'd the engine up, at which point the overpressure pumped the potato through a school window.

[Thud]

I said catapult, not trebuchet.

[Bacon Man]

This is that competition I was telling you about almost a year ago! It's like potato cannons on crack!

[Xenalyte]

We have GOT to go. The only impediment I can see is that it's in Delaware, and I share Wayne and Garth's opinion of Delaware.

[SussexCountyDE]

That hurts, but actually Sussex County is one of the fastest growing counties in the nation, with a great beach and the lowest taxes anywhere. Average property tax...$83.00 per year.

[Xenalyte]

Seriously, I don't know a blessed thing about Delaware. Wayne and Garth just make it easy to make fun of y'all.

I've heard that Delaware is GORGEOUS, and that yearly property tax is about my weekly one.

[Bacon Man]

Plus you know it's terrible close to Vermont and it's getting close to spontaneous screaming season up there.

[Xenalyte]

What's the limit on spontaneous screamers this year? I heard it was going up.

[Bacon Man]

They're classified the same as rodents so there's no limit.

[Xenalyte]

Excellent! I have the big cooler ready.