@catsalad ‘Tis for flinging, no?

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we used to make them in the office from pencils, rubber bands, and large erasers as the payload.

@catsalad it’s from those song lyrics,

“Voulez-vous trebuchet avec moi, c’est soi”

@catsalad The real question is, how do we combine one with a guillotine?

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Yes.

@catsalad Of course, it's a musical instrument.

@catsalad Yes.https://www.warwick-castle.com/explore-1/shows/shows-attractions/the-mighty-trebuchet/

@catsalad wasn't that a unit in Civilization?

@catsalad It’s that old east German car!

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"It's a machine that can put a stop to unruly peasants. Simply order your men-at-arms to load a few of your most unruly peasants into the sling, release, and if your men have aimed it right, you can fertilise your fields from a quarter of a mile away.
Your surviving peasants are guaranteed to be ruly for years to come."

- Baron Twattling, murdered by his own peasants in the Year of the Half-Arsed Wombat.

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@catsalad it's a font

@catsalad Trebuchet: ‚tres‘ - three and ‚bouche‘ - mouth, so it means ‚three mouths‘. It is a emoji :-))) which for some reason was very popular in the 12/13th century in Europe and led to the great unicode schism of 1273. Historians are not sure what it means.

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Do you know what pumpkin chucking is?
https://www.almanac.com/squash-wars-what-pumpkin-chunkin

@catsalad do you ned a plan for one and what do you plan on flinging? Burning pianos seem popular. https://youtu.be/14zsAqA8FXU

@catsalad It's three bushes, right?

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it's that metal thing you use to help guide your heel into a tight shoe

@catsalad It's basically a huge crossbow, but bigger.

@catsalad A trebuchet is something with which I shall in fact put.

@catsalad I keep it right next to my ballista