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# Did you see that thing in the Metro (free City-based paper)
about the Cambridge boffin who was launched by a trebuchet on an 'Adventure Weekend' and totally failed to hit the safety net?

There is no punchline; he died.

But that Kitten made it - yay!

(I helped save b3ta! brainstuff can eat a whole shredded wheat, Thu 5 Dec 2002, 16:29, archived)
# surely the
fact that he died is the punchline.
(I helped save b3ta! stouffer, Thu 5 Dec 2002, 16:31, archived)
# surely the punchline is
that his girlfriend(?) broke her hip (or maybe some other bones) a couple of summers ago when she bounced off the safety net.

Edit: sorry fact fans it was the g/f of the guy who was doing the launching, not of the guy who was launched.
(Jim Pooley, Thu 5 Dec 2002, 16:34, archived)
# It was the same guy
well it serves him right. Tosser.
(I helped save b3ta! Baz Fuck off, Thu 5 Dec 2002, 16:44, archived)
# Oh dear...
I just got that. Time to go home and deal with my severe lack of alcohol...
(psychobabble, Thu 5 Dec 2002, 17:46, archived)