The Armchair Tank is essential equipment for any force besieging a Sofa Fort. It can be used to transport an attacking force right up to the edge of a Carpet Moat, safe from the unerring salvoes fired from the defender's Cushion Trebuchets.
-- 8th of 7, Jul 16 2002

This will go well with my force of Armchair Assasins and Ottoman Turkish Raiders.
-- Severian, Jul 16 2002


Armchair siege engine?
-- calum, Jul 16 2002


How is this series of silly ideas any different from the "pole pants" ideas?
-- bookworm, Jul 16 2002


I'd actually sit down in an armchair tank...
-- Mr Burns, Jul 16 2002


bookworm: I think the essential difference is that this is a gently-evolving series of silly but humorous ideas, posted by different contributors, rather than a long series of ideas posted by the same contributor which weren't even very funny to start with. No-one has complained or posted any specially critical annotations. If there had been, I imagine the thread would have stopped. No doubt these ideas will quietly disappear into the archive over the next few days, and no-one will try to keep forcing the theme into the forefront once the joke has run its course.
-- 8th of 7, Jul 16 2002


8th has been here a whole month now folks.
-- po, Jul 16 2002


Hey, hey, I can count .... 60 ideas so far, too ..... but the pile of fishbones is starting to get a bit whiffy ....
-- 8th of 7, Jul 17 2002


But I can just never bear to throw anything away .... and I think I already killed all the Baked ones ....

Hmmmm. I wish there was a way of archiving them somewhere on the site.

Besides, leaving things on show (even if heavily fishboned) acts as a guide to those who come after with similar schemes.
-- 8th of 7, Jul 17 2002


save them onto floppy disc, bugsy
-- po, Jul 17 2002



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