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Shop Class: [3/27]

As the students enter into the classroom, they'll see that it has been transformed into the now familiar junkyard.

Only thing out of place? Would be the pile of pumpkins sitting on the ground.

"Today's assignment will carry over until Wednesday's class. Today your goal is to build a device that will hurl a pumpkin at a target. Your will be graded not only on the accuracy of your device but also distance. Today you will build your device, on Wednesday we will put it through its paces."

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After considering and discarding ideas like building an air cannon (no idea how to build up that kind of pressure without destructifying the pumpkin), a catapult (counterweight? What? I'd have to do, like, physics to calculate that!) or a trebuchet (see above note on catapult), Nadia decided to go with the solution that every problem child and cartoon coyote will tell you is the best: a giant slingshot.

Of course, she didn't have a truck to mount the frame to, but she did managed to find a mostly broken down tractor in the junkyard that would suffice for aiming and braking purposes. And to that a piece of industrial rubber tubing sliced open length-wise, and she had a perfectly workable giant slingshot with which to chuck her pumpkins.

Of course, first she had to figure out how to get the damned thing loaded in order to get enough tension on the industrial strength rubber tubing for it to actually fling the thing anywhere. . . . Perhaps an old, hydrolic jack?

[ooc: it might be overkill, but this is what happens when you give me a prompt like the frickin' Pumpkin Chunkin. The year we went, the winner had their pumpkin go all the way to the end of the parking lot, about 300 yards away, to land on a police car. . . .]

Ivanova considered her options, electing to go with the trebuchet ~~as the mun resists the urge to yell 'TREBUCHEEEEEEEEEEET!' down the hallway~~ method. She banged around the junk yard for a bit, kicking metal rods and wooden beams, picking up bits of this or that and considering them before finding a clear space and began scribbling down plans and calculations.

Duo grins wickedly at the assignment and immediately materializes his vast collection of Gundam schematics. He takes a look at the designs for the Buster Rifle (http://www.mahq.net/mecha/gundam/endlesswaltz/lineart/xxxg-00w0-twinbusterrifle.jpg) and the Beam Saber (http://www.animezen.net/images/anime/g/u/gundam_wing/wing-beamsaber.gif) and quickly draws up a plan for using ideas from both to make some kind of a firing device that will launch pumpkins. Reluctantly, he has to omit the Beam firing capabilities because that would totally distintegrate any and all pumpkins, and probably a few buildings, in the process.

Sam had already done this assignment, but she had no problem coming up with another punkin chucker. She built a pumpkin cannon (http://www.cannon-mania.com/images/Pumpkin/p-cannon1.jpg) out of an air compressor she spent the morning rebuilding, some large segments of pipe, and the bottom chassis of a car.

Humming as she worked, she bolted them all together. There was some swearing as the compressor fell down onto the chassis, and she had to inspect it for leaks before she tried re-attaching it. She was safe on that score, but she needed to find a new way to attach it--the bolts had sheared off. "Damn it."

[ooc: reposted because I lose at html.]

Xander is putting together something that... pretty much looks like a giant mousetrap, with the pumpkin to be placed in a battered spaghetti-steamer pot that he's bolted to the top of the steel frame handle of heavy old (but still gasoline-powered) push mower.

The handle is still attached to the mower, but he's taken the wheels off, weighted the base down with bricks, and strung a double-handful of short bungee cords between the mower and the middle bar of the handle. Pulling the handle back on its hinges now stretches the bungee cords promisingly, while not rocking the base off the ground, and a medium-sized pumpkin fits nicely into the bolted-on stockpot.

Stark had no idea why anyone would want to fling pumpkins, or any other vegetables for that matter. Although a flung pumpkin would probably make a satisfying squishy sort of mess, so that might be reason enough.

He started working on a ~~handwavey sort of~~ catapult. Nothing fancy, but it did seem like it would do the job. Or so he hoped.

...

ZOMG! PUMPKIN CHUNKIN!

Will there be a gold plated rubber chicken for the person who's contraption hurls the pumpkin the farthest?

No but there could be a bronzed mullet wig for creativity.

wow. that's frightening.

*waves bronzed mullet wig at you*

*hides behind Sam*

*Mine is an evil laugh*

You can never escape my mighty meat mallet modding mullet!

*loads shop project and aims it at you, because you totally said that just to get me to use this icon.*

Who? Me? Nah. You're imagining things, Santos.

*thwaps you with a gold-plated rubber chicken*

Is this a bronzed mullet wig, or the actual ex-mullet, bronzed?

It makes a difference, you know.

0.o

I'm scared to ask which one you prefer.

Just the mullet by itself fits more easily in one's survival kit.

o.0

And what possible use would a mullet wig be in a survival kit?

1. Pull out the strands and use them as a sustitute for sutures in a surgical emergency

2. Nest/wrapping for injured animal

3. Protective headgear for unexpected hailstorm

4. Pillow

5. Fool scary-looking rednecks into thinking you are one of them when trapped downstream without a paddle while the strains of Dueling Banjos are wafting from somewhere over yonder.

6. Amuse/frighten any small children who might be along on one's camping trip.

7. Scare bears and other wild animals away by making them think you shot and killed the fierce animal now resting upon your head.

8. Strain impure river water through cap section.

9. Impromptu container for carrying of eggs, berries, etc.

10. Brillo pad.

I love you. Seriously.

...and Xander for the win.

Quick and easy disguise?

Emergency garrotte wire?

Replacement for a hat in extreme weather?

Key ingredient in the creation of a flux capacitor?

Come on, MacGyver, you should know this stuff!

Just making sure you guys have learned something in class...

Ooooh, flux capacitor!

*totally never labelled bits of engines in the transport tech classroom 'flux capacitor' and 'Mr. Fusion', nope*

*insert evil laugh here*

Not telling.

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