> Tennis Ball Cannon
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Hey, I done that too. If anyone here went to Mesa (State) College in Grand
Junction CO and lived in the dorms during the years between 84-88, you can
blame me and my roommate(s) for some of the late evening study disruptions.
We often didn't bother with projectiles, cuz the cannon alone made some
wunnerful "WHOOMP"s that echoed across the campus and generated instant
rush-out-and-crane-necks-around-the-square activity from the dorm RA's.
We went a scary step further, tho. :)
Instead of tennis-ball sized cans, we built one using six two-quart juice
cans. (Took awhile to drink through 3 gallons of juice once we decided to
do it.) And instead of tennis balls, we raided the bathrooms of toilet
paper rolls. Roll off enough to get a moderately loose fit, jam the torn
off portion in the core to block the flow through the core. Roll a couple
more feet off to get a dangling tail. Aim over the top of the trees in
the courtyard (from the dorm-room balconies, that is). Flick-the-Bic and
hold on. WHUUUMPH! I wish I had a picture of the TP'ed trees from
that semester. The flying roll spins off TP like crazy and leaves a nice
long streamer over the target.
Ahhhhh.... the good ole' days.
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