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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.


Would You Like to Sail to the Stars? by Áine
(Tune: Would You Like to Swing on a Star by Johnny Burke & Jimmy Van Heusen -- Click here for the tune)

Áine's Comments: This one is dedicated especially to our one and only Mad Max, and all my wonderful Challenge!rs, past, present and future.


Chorus:
Would you like to sail to the stars?
Even maybe colonize Mars?
Do a crawl of outer space bars?
Or would you rather shoot your spud?

The first shot was scheduled up in cold Nor-o-way,
Where they don't know if it is night or day.
After raiding Momma's kitchen and their Dad's workshop,
Those fair-haired boys could make the taters pop!
And although they didn't make it to the moon,
They did a lot with just a spoon!

Chorus:
Would you like to sail to the stars?
Even maybe colonize Mars?
Do a crawl of outer space bars?
Or would you rather leave like Steve?

Mr. Bennett was a player, that just has to be said,
He claimed he had visions in his head,
His version of a mixer was the hottest in town,
But it wasn't very cool when he hit the ground,
And his wife was heard to say, when he fell flat,
'Steve, would you like fries with that?'

Chorus:
Would you like to sail to the stars?
Even maybe colonize Mars?
Do a crawl of outer space bars?
Or would you rather be a 'Cat?

A 'Cat is a person who is right in the know,
And sure ain't just like your average 'Joe'.
A 'Cat loves to warble, strum, or tickle the keys,
And in the net of ether, a 'Cat is the bee's knees,
So, if you really want to go to 'outer space',
The Mudcat is the only place!

Final Chorus:
The true explorers aren't in the air,
Answer the Challenge!, that's if you dare,
Mirth and music welcome you there,
No need to hang around in bars,
You could be swinging with the STARS!

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