To be more accurate, they launched a glider equipped with an engine with a fricken catapult, published notice of it in a beekeeping magazine, then spent the next five years suing everyone else actually working on flight claiming they had a patent on powered flight. Like Edison, the Wright Brothers lose respect the more you learn about them.

Tags changed from "slingshot, catapult, trebuchet, japanese" to "slingshot, trebuchet, japanese" by gold star member michie.

i like the satisfying crunch at teh end. the reason one of them get flung so far was because he was catapulted by the bike seat part of the bike, flipping him quite violently.

"An animated film starring Tom Waits.

Performed for us live (at the La Brea stage in Hollywood, 1978), and rotoscoped - a process that traces back the live action frame by frame and turns it into animation.

The original live action was shot with 5 cameras - 2 high, 2 low and one hand held. The music from "The One That Got Away" blared in the background as Tom sang karaoke style different lyrics on each take. Two strippers, 6 takes and 13 hours of video footage were edited to make a 5 1/2 minute live action short which we turned into animation. A total of 5500 live action frames were hand traced, caricatured, re-drawn, hand inked and painted onto celluloid acitate cels.

Produced by Lyon Lamb, directed by John Lamb, the film bore some cool new technology, talent and was created specifically for a video music market that didn't yet exist. But the buzz was out and we went on to create what arguably may be the first music video created for the new and upcoming MTV market.

A series of unfortunate events prohibited the film from ever being released or sold commerciallly, consequently catapulting it into obscurity... until now,thanks You Tube!

In 1979, an Academy Award was presented to Lyon Lamb for the technology used in this short.

To learn more about this amazing lost film, go to ....TomWaitsLibrary.com and Wikipedia"

Getting a bunch of dupes - killed utah and replaced with catapult.

Tags changed from "utah, ride, bungee cord" to "catapult, ride, bungee cord, sling shot" by gold star member Krupo.

Give Wolf that Therapy Buddy to interview, with a prime-time slot on Monday Night Football Night, pre-game, then launch him into a pit from a catapult, where he'll land "schplatt"!, on top of a pile, of previously launched colleagues.....a spattering of talking heads and their handlers, with the same disease. Then, Ted Turner, Brian Condon, Donald James Leslie, Rupert Murdock, and every other god-little"G", self-motivated, imbalanced deficient, could join him in the pile, which will later be ground into chum for squid fishing!!!
Does one fish for squid??

This type of interview, should insult whatever inteligence a monkey has, regardless of the sentiments created BY such interviews, which have shaped their opinions through the years....pathetic sheit, and no major media outlet is without excuse-all are to blame for journalistic insanity,personal agenda, and Dis-information/Diversion-Implosion Syndrome!!(DDIS)

Now that Sogoddamn Insane is gone, wouldn't it be tits, if we would excise two more Human schizms from the Big Blue Mole, KiM Jong and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and do so with such swift and righteous spectacle, with complete disregard for the reactions from th'nay-sayers?
Makes no since to most sane folk, that these two should continue to breathe the same air, or pollute one more mind, and distract us from progress as humans, one more millisecond.....Tell China to kiss our asses when they bitch, Russia can suck Uncle Sams cock, and France can just piss the fuck off....The United Nations should be dressed in clown suits and made to march seven times around Manhattan, should they offer anything but praise. Choose a surgical black op, or a nuke down the throat that we all find out about, AFTER these diseased, throwbacks are eradicated.
In choggies' perfect world, problems are solved, when they are tiny, and large ones are burned, the ashes to be sifted through later, for salvagable material.....
The alternatives include, the bull shit we engage in now, and another generation of programmed, imprinted, hate, in the form of tots whose souls are being stolen from them, at birth.
Allah is a cocksucker, belonging to a large segment of unfortunates, who are just not up to speed with the program of what it means to "Be Here Now"!
"Oh just let them all believe what they want to" may just prove to be the most destrutive form of denial we indulge in. Wherever a lie or illusion is embraced, every action, sentiment, and expression, is tainted with the original lie, and in the end, destruction.
(singing) America, "Fuck Yeah", ....
Oh, and when they die, we must make public spectacle of them, for whomever would rise up to take their place. Prefer doused in petrol, set alight, then catapulted into one of the still-standing sections of the Berlin Wall, or fuck it, That flat, smooth curved United Nations Building.

I can't believe he said that.

FYI: he was talking about social security reforms:

Now, a personal savings account would be a part of a Social Security retirement system. It would be a part of what you would have to retire when you reach retirement age. As you -- as I mentioned to you earlier, we're going to redesign the current system. If you've retired, you don't have anything to worry about -- third time I've said that. (Laughter.) I'll probably say it three more times. See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda. (Applause.)

Comming out next year, the lego catapult, and the lego balista!

http://www.videosift.com/video/Car-Trebuchet#leavecomment

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they're not catapults by the way!

noted. changed title from Car Catapult to Car Trebuchet.

to be honest i do want my silver spurs. however, my lack of knowledge on medieval projectile instruments left me wanting for proper terminology. i have happily been educated in the differences between a catapult and a trebuchet during the course of my post.

yay for the sift; entertaining AND educational!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catapult

Tags changed from "destructive, farmers, catapulting cars" to "destructive, farmers, trebuchet, cars" by gold star member Krupo.

notice the no vote from the only person to give the soldiers the benifit of the doubt???...If they live, they may live to regret it, or not....you do not know the state of mind of the soldiers, though it is a good bet, it is as you all say, from their actions alone....however, the possibility remains, the soldiers could have been passing time, with the kids, like they do everyday, while they are there....soldiers and civilians make bonds during occupation, that may seem harsh to us looking in through our little puter windows and TV's, but business friendly during war....so i don't like war either,but fuck the media's nose in it, mucking it up, like the fuck from CNN, who followed the Al Qaeda sniper and filmed him kill a marine, whilst he gave a play by play.....he should be , bound, pitched, feathered,lashed to Germalo Rivera, and Chisti A-man-poor, set alight, and catapulted..into a wall..
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