Alternative weaponry

Radish · April 12, 2012, 05:20:35 AM

Just wondered if high-velocity spud guns would work?

PR19_Kit · April 12, 2012, 05:27:06 AM

Only to make instant mash..........

mkhulu · April 12, 2012, 07:05:10 AM

Quote from: PR19_Kit on April 12, 2012, 05:27:06 AM
Only to make instant mash..........

not if you freeze the spud prior to firing ..

albeback · April 12, 2012, 07:20:33 AM

Quote from: PR19_Kit on April 12, 2012, 05:27:06 AM
Only to make instant mash..........

or when the chips are down!!

NARSES2 · April 12, 2012, 07:37:43 AM

Quote from: Radish on April 12, 2012, 05:20:35 AM
Just wondered if high-velocity spud guns would work?

Well high velocity frozen chickens were lethal. After all the AEE or somebody tested them in real life

Radish · April 12, 2012, 09:41:58 AM

Just a thought....what about frozen carrots fired?

Weaver · April 12, 2012, 10:25:49 AM

Perhaps the Phantom Flan-Flinger could make a high-tech comeback: rapid-fire automatic custard-pie thrower?

pyro-manic · April 13, 2012, 01:16:35 AM

One of the Wallace & Gromit movies featured a porridge cannon.

Mossie · April 13, 2012, 03:49:32 AM

Pioneered by the Home Guard, about 6.30mins in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yua-zGhduPA

bobbo · April 13, 2012, 04:42:32 AM

So MUCH inspired lunacy! I LOVE it!

bobbo

wagnersm · April 13, 2012, 05:43:50 AM

How about hard Ladyfinger cookies, aka biscuits. Won't need the additional weight of refrigeration equipment on aircraft.

Steve

rickshaw · April 13, 2012, 05:52:42 AM

Downunder, we had "Biscuits, Survival" aka "hardtack". Guaranteed to break yer teeth, so I imagine they could do some damage if fired with sufficient velocity.

albeback · April 13, 2012, 08:12:38 AM

Quote from: rickshaw on April 13, 2012, 05:52:42 AM
Downunder, we had "Biscuits, Survival" aka "hardtack". Guaranteed to break yer teeth, so I imagine they could do some damage if fired with sufficient velocity.

Lol!! Remember them well. Only, we called them dog biscuits - except that no dog would eat them!! Did you get bars of chocolate with Arabic writing on them? Rumour has it they were left over from the Suez invasion in 1956!!

The dried peas would make good bullets too!!

PR19_Kit · April 13, 2012, 09:23:34 AM

I wonder if we could come up with a suitable design that fired Jaffa Cakes, preferably by the box-load?

I bet Duncan would volunteer to be a 'trials target'.

Weaver · April 13, 2012, 11:18:16 AM

My uncle has been teasing his sister-in-law about her cooking (which is, in reality, perfectly good) for about 40 years now. One highlight of this was the "Irene's Mince Pie" dossier: an official-looking report, put together on company headed paper in a style that only a working engineer could, which explored alternate uses for the "offending" items, such as armour-piercing shot, anchors for battleships, grinding wheels for shaping diamonds etc....

Mum recalls one real example during the war, when the bus company canteen got a batch of "scones" delivered which were literally, inedibly solid. One guy broke his false teeth on them and they were last seen being used for pucks in an ice-hockeyish game by the shed men. The rumour was that a consignment of unmarked "utility" bags of white power had been delivered to the bakery which actually contained plaster-of-paris instead of flour.....