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.


The Spud Gun Law by mousethief
(Tune: Titanic (� la Pink Anderson)

Well away up north in Norway
They keep their kids in hand
They don't let teens
Have fun on sea or land
First they outlawed chewing gum
And if you think that was dumb,
It was sad when the spud-gun law was passed

Oh it was sad!
Oh it was sad!
It was sad when the spud-gun law was passed
(they harassed those poor kids!)
Backyard devic-es we hid from prying eyes
It was sad when the spud-gun law was passed

Little Sven Olafsen's buddies
Were tired of BB guns
When Sven built something
That turned out lots of fun
They could shoot a one-pound tuber
At Mrs. Bjorn's left -um- side
It was sad when the spud-gun law was passed

(repeat chorus)

They would probably have gotten
Away with it for years
Till an evil plan
Jumped in between Sven's ears
Then he aimed his spud-gun low
At the sherriff's daughter's beau
It was sad when the spud-gun law was passed

(repeat chorus)

Soon the Kristiansand police
Had surrounded those six boys
And they took away
Their mortar-firing toy
And the town soon passed a law
Making spud launching a flaw
It was sad when the spud-gun law was passed

(repeat chorus)

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