About 20 dollars of PVC and a grill ignitor put together to launch a potato at high speeds in excess of 300 feet. Sounds like a gunshot. Typicly made by bored, immature teenagers, but is incredibly fun to create/play with. If you shoot a potato it'll scare the shit out of everyone within 500 feet of you.
Last friday night some nerdy freshmen made a potato cannon and shot my front door. I then went outside and ran them over in my ford bronco.
Any sort of device that looks like a cannon and is generally designed to shoot potatos at a high velocity using household products as propellent. Also known as spud gun and potato launcher.
Using these lengths of PVC pipe, I intend to constuct a brand new potato cannon that will surely attract every twelve-year-old in the nieghborhood.
When you’ve been holding on to farts for a while and you go to the toilet and the compressed gas causes a firm poo to shoot out with an almighty foonk.
British slang for a scientist or technical expert, esp . when the speaker is not certain of the expert’s specific field of study. Not necessarily derogatory, but typically used by persons without a technical background. In the US, the equivalent would be “egghead”, “squint”, or “geek.”
Origin of the word is unknown. Started sometime in World War 2. Given the typical evolution of British slang, could easily have started because what these experts did was confusing or “baffling” to the common person.
According to the boffins downstairs, the murdererused a serrated blade.
When you have to pee in a movie but don’t want to miss anything, and must do the following mental equation: will the amount I have to pee cause enough discomfort to diminish my attention capacity for the remainder of the movie to an extent which is greater than the amount of the movie I would miss by making a mad dash to the restroom.
I saw Satantango last night, wonderful film but by the 5th hour I had to start doing peecalculus.