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.


Talkin' Ballistics Blues by Philibuster

Spuds flyin' round the great blue sky,
The sheriff he stares and wonders why,
Seems some boys was launchin' potatos,
Beans, corn, rice and big tomatos.

Tag:   Stuff like that's dangerous...mashed potatos could mash skulls.

Seems these guys had built a cannon,
Into it their garden they was jammin',
Sheriff said "Hey boys, that's against the law."
"Flyin' vegetables aren't allowed!"

Tag:   Not in this county...not in the one your shootin' em into either.

Ole Sherrif sat and waited for an excuse,
(But there just ain't one for launchin' refuse)
But them boys knew they was mighty clever,
They huddled up and put their heads together.

Tag:   We're helping the needy sir!... Sendin' em to hungry kids in Ethiopia!

Well that was all a few years back,
Now one of those boys decided to crack,
Shot himself into space in a cement mixer,
Came back down with blood a whole lot thicker.

Tag:   Jellied idiot...Gravity loves stupidity.

Now we sit and laugh and wonder why,
Some idjut would shoot himself into the sky,
But even though our warnings he would not heed,
It still had a better chance than the X-33!

Tag:   Skunkworks....makin' stuff that don't work.

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