Upholster several rubber bands, a tea-strainer, joke imprinted ice cream sticks,several plates of meccano and a pulley and arft cogs.
Graft and meld together these ingredients within the "Top Hat" to enable - "Elevation and Flip-lid" (hat trick)< oil for faster hat vigour> (34 walnuts, max) Hat brim colour options: (low tech) Black through White.
Once assembled, (don)tug the ruby counterweighted pulley hat rim string.
Good for knocking off bobbies helmets and slinging walnuts for the parrots at feeding time.-- skinflaps, May 29 2005 cat apult http://www.newton.m...tapult_history.html [po, May 29 2005] Could you use one of these? trebuchet_20smash [Susan, May 31 2005] trebuchet?-- po, May 29 2005 Sounds more like a catapult anyway.-- st3f, May 29 2005 did they use cats?-- po, May 29 2005 sp: trebuchet.
Although the Top Hat Tree Bucket is a novel idea, too...-- moomintroll, May 29 2005 Who is Max? Why are you writing to him here? What language is that?-- baconbrain, May 30 2005 Trebucket - >OLD<
n : medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles.
Walnuts.
(who's Max?) pfffzzz..-- skinflaps, May 30 2005 aka Hat-apult?-- nick_n_uit, May 31 2005 For more open warfare, install a small telescopic flagpole that will raise your heraldic flag from the hat-top while the lid-flip is up.-- wagster, May 31 2005 How about a trebouquet for launching bunches of flowers at opera singers?-- AbsintheWithoutLeave, May 31 2005 [AWOL] - I think you just gave [UB] an idea...-- wagster, May 31 2005 [wags] Yeah, I know, but he couldn't make up a decent pun for his. Nor, come to mention it, could I.-- AbsintheWithoutLeave, May 31 2005 random, halfbakery