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Illium says that perhaps I can use them to flutter someone to death.
- Aodhan to Jason, Archangel's Storm
When levitation fails, a ladder prevails.
Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions.
TEAMWORK: A few harmless flakes working together can unleash an avalanche of destruction.
Pussies [10w]
Pussies are like parachutes ~
they work best when wide open.
Three thousand pounds of steel and glass and plastic that no thing made out of flesh could resist. A car.
If anyone wants a hole in the ground, nuclear explosives can make big holes
Don't care how big they are, boys; they can't do anything if you get 'em up off the ground.
It is a human demolition derby!
ONE I GO CRUISING WITH EXPLOSIVES
We are a volley of bullets, we are cannonballs. We are the tip of the sword.
What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.
Fling but a stone, the giant dies.
All us Youngs could throw. I used to kill squirrels with a stone when I was a kid, and my granddad once killed a turkey buzzard on the fly with a rock.
A category 5 hurricane carries an explosive force several times greater than that of the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.
shopping trolleys
You can't fire a cannon, from a canoe!
You have a 12-foot fence. You know what'll happen? Thirteen foot ladders.
cannon used. The night of the grand festivity
Funny how easily you could look this shit up online. Explosives, bombs, Molotov cocktails, IEDs . . . anything you wanted. Learning how to blow someone up was easier than buying a frigging beer.
Winds with little fishhooks at the end of every gust.
The detonation was deafening, the blast a bruised gout of flame that drove back the airborne sand and the wind carrying it, and flung the attackers and their mounts like a god's hand, backward onto the road and off the sides.
I jumped between two seven-story buildings in Los Angeles, launching from one rooftop to the other with ramps.
We fired pie filling. That was the Faroes. When they tried to board us, we hit them with forty-five gallon shots of custard and banana creme.
Ideas are more dangerous than missiles.
Being patient even in the thickest of storms can be the one device that may catapult you over any obstacle.
Hard winds and strong ideas have powerful muscles; they can knock you down easily!
Small Planes, Large Fences, and a Rather Daunting Number of Zombie Kangaroos, Because That Is Exactly What This Day Needed
Unleash in the right time and place before you explode at the wrong time and
place.
Those elegant delights of jig and vaulting.
On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder.
How do they rise up?
You can only jump so far until you break your leg. You can only land so hard until something explodes.
a madman's line of fire.
Tie two birds together. They will not be able to fly, even though they now have four wings.
Sticks and stones build strong houses
When a woman thinks she is nothing, the little sparrows cry.
Who can defend them on the terrace , if no one has the vision of a world without slingshots?
A fecking flamethrower! Why didn't I think of that? Best I came up with was a measly hair dryer.
It's cheap, and you have a thinking, breathing bomb that can adjust to circumstances and cross the street to hit another target if the original one doesn't look good.
How do you have an armed siege without guns?' 'She used Olympic standard archery equipment,
bradawl. It was just a blunt steel spike set into a handle.
McMurphy tied a chunk of meat to each end of a four-foot string, tossed it into the air, and sent two squawking birds wheeling off, Till death do them part.
You release these things, and if they fly then you have more.
The rockets ... can be built so powerfully that they could be capable of carrying a man aloft.
A genius shoots at something no one else can see, and hits it.
You can make a very heavy and kind of dangerous 3-way shot glass out of a bowling ball.
That was a stupid idea I made up while drunk. Why did someone build that?
As a school boy I played with a plastic grenade, it was grey and with caps, it was loaded. In the dirt we would cry and dramatically die, as it flew through the air and exploded.
Boxes
We built walls of cardboard
thinking they would keep us safe.
And they did.
Until the flames
came.
Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.
like an unrelenting jackhammer on a defenseless city street.
Through the overcast sky, I looked up and saw the tin-can planes. I watched their stomachs open and drop the bombs casually out. They were off target, of course. They were often off target.
Almost pedantically, she added: They're not really bombs
they're acoustic provocations.
Kids. They're not tin cans or sheetrock. They're laughing machines. Wind them up and watch them go.
Great battles are won with artillery.
hot-water tanks, lashed to one another with straps of steel like comrades in a doomed adventure.
If a man has a tent made of linen of which the apertures have all been stopped up, and be it twelve bracchia across (over twenty-five feet) and twelve in depth, he will be able to throw himself down from any height without sustaining injury. [His concept of the parachute.]
Launches usually moved into the armies together,
The bigger they are, the harder they fall. And the better the world liked seeing them fall.
To insure the greatest efficiency in the dart, the harpooners of this world must start to their feet from out of idleness, and not from out of toil.
Concentrate. Level the sight. Breathe in.
Ease the trigger. And relax?
BLAP! The can somersaulted across the sand.
Pride swelled till I thought I'd burst.
But my pride slipped at Dad's reality check.
Not bad. Pretty good, in fact. For a girl.
What the holy hand grenade was that?
To shoot at crows is powder flung away.
The most powerful weapon in the world is, Question.
steel wedge between the
Thrown rocks can only hit a bird who is soaring lower than it is capable of.
with their weapons. One struck it with his
Therefore, I have attacted [the problem of the catenary] which I had hitherto not attempted, and with my key [the differential calculus] happily opened its secret.
Acta eruditorum
She thought the best way to feed her child was to use a slingshot. - Wiley Cantrell
As the missile flew high above the moat-lake, there was a small, almost inaudible explosion, like that of a fire cracker meant for a child.
Lakshman's awe was quickly replaced by disappointment. He frowned. 'That's it? Is that the famed Asuraastra?
When you think about it, we're strapping strange planks of wood to our feet and launching off of giant snow walls. It's pretty intense.
The military weapon is but one of the means that serve the purposes of war: one out of the assortment which grand strategy can employ.
For 'tis the sport to have the engineer Hoist with his own petar; and't shall go hard But I will delve one yard below their mines And blow them at the moon.
A fertilizer bomb that kills hundreds in Oklahoma. Fuel-laden civil jets that kill 4000 in New York. A sanctions policy that kills one and a half million in Iraq. A trade policy that immiserates continents. You can make a bomb out of anything. The ones on paper hurt the most.
the crows are like a harrow to
unbroken ground they turn it loose
they give it air
The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of force, can be united in a practical machine by which men shall fly along distances through the air, seems to the writer as complete as it is possible for the demonstration to be.
Some golfers blast their ball from traps, With one adroit explosion, But others, out in ten perhaps, Depend upon erosion.
Oh what was the racket that backeted and smashed in raging might, to make this oil-puddle world?
What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?
cats on hot bricks could take hints from me
They cripple the bird's wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they.
Our small ears never had such a workout as on the Fourth of July, hearing not only our own bursting crackers but also those of our friends, and often the boom of homemade cannon shot off by daring boys of 16 years, ready to lose a hand if it blew up.
WEAPON: Steamroller ADVANTAGES: Extremely effective. DISADVANTAGES: Where are you going to get a steamroller?
The athletes were treated to a thunderous show that culminated in the release of twenty thousand doves. As the birds circled in panicked confusion, cannons began firing, prompting the birds to relieve themselves over the athletes. With each report, the birds let fly.
The one effective method of defending one's own territory from an offensive by air is to destroy the enemy's air power with the greatest possible speed.
What's it called when a hellhole hits a cataclysm? A catastro[phrack]. I just coined that, didn't I?
It's, like, a safety bomb."
-Iggy
We have to build bridges that are stronger than the bombs that other people might throw
What falls but never breaks; what breaks but never falls?
is a woman's strongest weapon.
I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.
Admiral Spartan thinks that the object must be exposed and penetrated with all possible speed.
commotion and flurry.
Ray called out, "Weapons ready. Sound off."
"Walking stick and shields against animals attacks."
"Clean underwear and a rock-salt shotgun," said Winn...
We have always borne part of the weight of war, and the major part ... Men have made boomerangs, bows, swords, or guns with which to destroy one another; we have made the men who destroyed and were destroyed! ... We pay the first cost on all human life.
I would happily help to turn the stone being thrown at me into a boomerang.
A volcano may be considered as a cannon of immense size.
Daggers. Never leave home without them.
dangerous weapon
Ever had a flying burrito hit you? Well, it's a deadly projectile, right up there with cannonballs and grenades.