And they say furries are silly...

[altivo]

From the local county newspaper:

The biggest ride at the Lake in the Hills Summer Sunset Festival didn't require a wristband or tickets. All that was needed was plenty of room, a crowd, and a few good watermelons.

The 22-foot-tall, watermelon-hurling trebuchet was hard to miss Saturday at Sunset Park. The only entrant in the Melon Propellin' competition, the catapult-like device sent the bulbous fruits flying up to 390 feet.

"If it breaks on the first try, we're sorry," said Shelby Hauck, who with coworkers and fellow plumbers Ben Keirl and Mark O'Connor founded team "Drainsurgeons" while commuting between jobs at work.

The device required eight people to build and took more than three months of planning and construction before it was ready to throw a melon skyward...

But no doubt these people would call fursuiting, gaming, and other furry pursuits a "waste of time," "childish," and "pointless."

In other news, back to work today. It took most of the day to find any of my desktop. It was supposed to rain today, so it didn't, and was perversely bright and pleasant in contrast to yesterday, the holiday, when it was not supposed to rain but did so all afternoon and all night last night. Oh, and we don't waste watermelons by chucking them through the air and cheering when they splatter. We eat them, which I find much more pleasant.

Comments

[lobowolf.livejournal.com]

"On second thought, let's not go to Camelot. 'Tis a silly place.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

So tell me, what do the simple folk do?

[atomicat.livejournal.com]

I beg your pardon? Collecting limited edition Elvis plates is NOT childish, pointless, or a waste of time! Oh wait...

Actually, I'd love to have a 22 foot tall trebuchet. I could get the kitchen scraps into the garden much easier.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

*snicker* I could have predicted that response. ;p

[merik.livejournal.com]

The device required eight people to build and took more than three months of planning and construction before it was ready to throw a melon skyward...

Well, if nothing else, the melonchucker kept these eight sad, lonely people off the streets and out of trouble for three months ;-)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I suppose I can look at it that way when they're willing to look at my activities in the same way.

[merik.livejournal.com]

*chuckle* Believe me, my activities/hobbies probably would be considered strange, boring, and/or sad by the world at large ;-)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Maybe. But you're in good company.

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

Actually, I do doubt it somewhat. It's been my experience generally that it's not folks that actually do things and build stuff, no matter what those things might be, that go on about what others do. It's the ones who don't seem to do much of anything that go on about what others do. Or when they do go on about it, it's aimed closer to home and is more of a "but *we* do it *right*" sort of thing.

[kildoo-lonewolf.livejournal.com]

I do agree with you here and also, I am sure that the ones who do nothing would find the trebuchet worth spending that much time to build it as long as they use Furries for munitions ;)

[altivo.livejournal.com]

You have a point, though I still think the odds are good that this particular group would call furries "a bunch of sick queers."

Actually, I was aiming at the newspaper and the reporter, rather than the melon chuckers themselves. I don't think that paper would give furries as favorable a report as they did the waste of watermelons.

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

Ah, now that aimed at some of the alleged media makes all too much sense.

[rigelkitty.livejournal.com]

Surely you've heard of Punkin' Chunkin'?

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I have, but I never thought it made much sense.

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

The watermelon launching is just a public cover so people don't realize the real utility of the trebuchet: zucchini dispersal.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Oh we have that taken care of. My sheepdog takes them around at night and leaves them on people's doorsteps.

[songdogmi.livejournal.com]

Aren't sheepdogs supposed to round things up, not disperse them?

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Yes, but they are also smart and can learn all sorts of things. Mine is a weird guy anyway.

[mymaimary.livejournal.com]

The people who dropped off my animals said they'd trade me a gelding and a stud for my trebuchet because they wanted more leverage in the pumpkin chucking competition this year! So funny!

Rain is nice. I miss it.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Tsk. Wasting perfectly good pumpkins when there are starving children in India.