SONG CHALLENGE WINNER!

The Song Challenge:   Whilst cleaning up the old Song Challenge! files, getting ready for the Songbook's big move 'home', I found several Challenge! ideas that seem to be tied together in some, like, ya know, cosmic way, man.   ;-)   So, being that goddesses have to be cruel to be kind (oh behave, Amos!), I've decided to raise the bar for the Whole Bag O' Chips by creating a new award -- The Double Dip Copper Cow Chip (with Sprinkles), which will be awarded for connecting the dizzying dots between two or more Challenge! ideas in a song for any Official Double Dip Dare from the Keeper of the Book.   And for my first 'Official' Double Dip Dare, please do not adjust your seat belts and consider the following . . .

Boys who play with their praties . . . -- (OSLO, Norway) Police have confiscated a potentially lethal home-made cannon capable of firing potatoes up to 160 feet.  Six youths in the seaside town of Kristiansand in southern Norway used instructions on the Internet to build the weapon from everyday household objects.  "This home-made weapon is extremely dangerous both for those using it and those being fired at," a police spokesman told the newspaper Faedrelandsvennen.  The boys loaded potatoes down a plastic tube, where an electric ignition device from a gas-fuelled barbecue was installed.  By spraying a flammable gas into the tube and sealing the open end with a cap, potatoes were converted into projectiles with one push of the red ignition button.  Police said the cannon was capable of launching any object similar in size and weight to potatoes.

. . . grow up to be men with issues . . . -- London's Steve Bennett continues his quest to become the world's most successful amateur rocket engineer, with all systems go for launching himself into space in a "test flight" (to an altitude of 10,000 feet) in 2003 on a venture that most professional engineers called foolhardy, according to a June story reported by the BBC.  The more that is known about Bennett's mission (e.g., he recently said it would be a rocket capsule made from a cement mixer, with modest installation and a small computer), the more rocket scientists believe his launch will result in instant death.  However, the louder the criticism, the more certain of himself Bennett professes to be. He still rejects conventional preparations such as wind-tunnel tests and g-force tests:  "That is what the test flight is for," he said.


Fire a Couple More Missles by mousethief
(Tune: Come a Little Bit Closer (Jay and the Americans)

In a little café on the other side of the Neva
We were a-sippin' our drinks, and not thinking of coldwar endeavahs
When a rocket flew overhead
It was red white and blue, and I said,
"This must be World War Three,"
Then I heard the bartender say-yay-yay:

Fire a couple more missles, that's my kinda plan
So tough and so strong
Fire a couple more missles, The end is in sight
And nuclear winter's so long!

Well we started to head for the shelter down in the basement
Then we realized what Bush's tests up in outer space meant
But what we had no way to know
Was that the missile that started the show
Was a fool in a home-made rocket, who would never say-yay-yay:

Fire a couple more missles, that's my kinda plan
So tough and so strong
Fire a couple more missles, The end is in sight
And nuclear winter's so long!

Now they say the man that started World War 3 was a tinker
Made a rocket from a cement mixer, yeah, quite a thinker
His rocket lifted with grace
Right up into Russian airspace
And when they shot him down it was the just the start of doomsday-yay-yay

Fire a couple more missles, that's my kinda plan
So tough and so strong
Fire a couple more missles, The end is in sight
And nuclear winter's so long!

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