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Post by scotsgit on Dec 11, 2011 2:58:13 GMT -5
Shooting stuff out of canons? Meh. Come back when you've shot a cheese roll out of a musket at someone. They did one better and shot cheese out of a cannon. Was it aimed at someone wearing really expensive armour who was taking the piss out of them for being unemployed?
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Post by Yaezakura on Dec 11, 2011 3:12:30 GMT -5
They did one better and shot cheese out of a cannon. Was it aimed at someone wearing really expensive armour who was taking the piss out of them for being unemployed? No, it was aimed at a ship's sails. The myth was that a ship's captain ran out of cannon balls, and fired cheese in order to disable an enemy ship. Or something like that. So they were testing the projectile properties of various cheeses when fired from a cannon. Soft cheeses were useless of course, but some of the harder ones were able to pretty effectively rip up a sail.
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Post by Damen on Dec 11, 2011 9:56:45 GMT -5
This seems to be more of a case of TARFU. "Totally And Royally Fucked Up." Well...actually, the more I look at the extent of the damage caused and the distance the cannon ball traveled, I'm leaning more to FUBAR. "Fucked Up Beyond All Reason." I thought it was "recognition," but the meaning of the statement is pretty much unchanged. The BAR seems to stand for whatever you want it to. I grew up with "Fucked Up Beyond All Repair."
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