I wouldn't say that I (or Mary) had a crush on MacGyver at this point. That would necessitate wanting to be with him. I just wanted to *be* him. Doesn't hurt any to find out that your favorite action hero hails from your home state.
Monday, September 21, 2009
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OMG MacGyver. I can wholeheartedly say I know exactly what you mean.
Who wouldn't want to be able to build a spaceship out of dental floss, duct tape, and a potted plant?
I have had several occasions this year to use "macgyver" as a verb. Example:
"I'm not sure how long these trebuchets will keep firing -- we just macgyvered them together in the first place out of some scrap..."
:)
peace,
Zach
@Montgraves: Greetings, fellow MacGyver fan!
@Zach: Whoa. 0.0 Seriously?
What's funny, is that his name is verbed *in the show!*
Seriously.
No actual castles were besieged in the creation of that sentence. :) This spring, I taught a class on "Backyard Ballistics" (in which the trebuchets were macgyvered); then a few weeks ago, pulled them back out for another class demonstration.
(They were/are pretty lame trebuchets -- I didn't have the power of the scriptwriter on my side...)
@Zach: It's still a *trebuchet.* That's kinda cool all by itself.
Brigid - thanks!
Like I said, they were very small, very lame siege engines, capable of only throwing tennis balls or water balloons tens, if not dozens, of inches. ;) And likely as not to release early and fire backwards...
OTOH, the potato cannons work just fine. :D
peace,
Zach
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