a old dumpshock joke is the orbital bovine launcher. the ultimate solution to any problem a GM may face...
i kept wondering where the idea came from, until i bumped into this:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DropTheCow
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Stay away from that site !! It'll eat both your life AND productivity !
QUOTE (Professeur @ Apr 5 2009, 08:13 PM) 
Stay away from that site !! It'll eat both your life AND productivity !
i have neither, so its winwin for me
QUOTE (hobgoblin @ Apr 5 2009, 08:07 PM)
a old dumpshock joke is the orbital bovine launcher. the ultimate solution to any problem a GM may face...
i kept wondering where the idea came from, until i bumped into this:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DropTheCow
i kept wondering where the idea came from, until i bumped into this:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DropTheCow
MOOOO!!!!!!
Thanks for the link!
MOOOOOO
There was also an urban legend about post-soviet Russian military landing cargo planes in fields to steal cattle. As the story goes the cows got agitated mid-flight and started rocking the plane. The Russian were thus required to open their loading ramp and drive the cattle out. Then hilarity ensued, usually in the form of sunken Japanese fishing vessels. All confabulated of course...
QUOTE (Method @ Apr 5 2009, 10:12 PM)
There was also an urban legend about post-soviet Russian military landing cargo planes in fields to steal cattle. As the story goes the cows got agitated mid-flight and started rocking the plane. The Russian were thus required to open their loading ramp and drive the cattle out. Then hilarity ensued, usually in the form of sunken Japanese fishing vessels. All confabulated of course...
MOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
LOL!!!!!!
MOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
QUOTE (hobgoblin @ Apr 5 2009, 12:07 PM)
a old dumpshock joke is the orbital bovine launcher. the ultimate solution to any problem a GM may face...
i kept wondering where the idea came from, until i bumped into this:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DropTheCow
i kept wondering where the idea came from, until i bumped into this:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DropTheCow
I thought that was around on the Battletech boards. in that any guilty of munchkin mech builds got a cow dropped on them.
I do recollect that story. AFAIK, it was brought to Shadowrun specifically by an old author, Blackjack, who wrote some great stuff (and regularly commented on Orbital Bovine Bombardments specifically). He's the first I heard that particular term from.
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