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I don't know about Hurlers being too civilized. My teammate Big Steve is always complaining about the rest of the teams in Burlington, he just does it quietly so they can't hear him and then acts super friendly to their faces. I for one would be more than willing to drum up some controversy in the name of good TV. You stick a TV camera in front of my face and I'm going to talk some major trash.

Pneum0 aka Mark Worden of Marysville Wa. Checking in.

As a few may guess I have built a few "leaf blowers" in my past, but in college we launched a pony keg of water nearly 2 football fields using 20 yards of gravel in a 1/2 length sea-van as a counter weight.

I am facebook friends with Leonard Vance thevdeveloper of the Murlin Trebuchet design. He modeled me up a pumpkin sized version. Just saving my $ and cents till I can afford to build.

I am also casual friends with the Carltons of Carlton farms which provides most of the pumpkins to the Snohomish Hurl. I hope that if/when I build they will let me test at the farm, as I am just down the road.

Cross an Aerospace Structures Stress Engineer with a pile of scrap metal/wood and fiberous materials, usually results in physics toys.

I would of like very much to have met Ripcord.

Yeah, me too. Ripcord was one of the main reasons i kept going to the old catmess, he constantly had a new or different idea and some nicely done animations or drawings of what he came up with, great help and advice given out as well.

He even seemed to be everywhere as well, had an online presence on many different forums as well.

I hope it isn't dead, I am planning on combining the scissor linkage found in First in Fright with a FAW/NASAW for hurling golf balls and possibly scale up from there.