View Full Version : And now for Something Completely different..
SteveA
08-06-2013, 06:03 AM
.. The Monty Python fans will get the Title.. :)
Got this a few days ago from the beach at LSP. I'd seen this on TV a while back.. 1st time I've spotted it on Winni. These folks were having a blast!
Not a great picture, taken with a long lens and still had to be cropped pretty hard.
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cmack
08-06-2013, 06:29 AM
Nudge nudge wink wink
I've seen a similar thing on TV but the guy was wearing a jet pack contraption which I'm thinking would be much more stable. Just shoes? Geez, I can see the guy getting whipped around like a loose fire hose :laugh:
SteveA
08-06-2013, 06:51 AM
Nudge nudge wink wink
I've seen a similar thing on TV but the guy was wearing a jet pack contraption which I'm thinking would be much more stable. Just shoes? Geez, I can see the guy getting whipped around like a loose fire hose :laugh:
LOL-- "if he wasn't nailed to his perch.." never mind.. :laugh:
This guy was getting up to about 30', he was also doing a series of porpoise moves going in and out of the water. I didn't get any good pictures of that because he was half way across the Broads when he started that.
pjard
08-06-2013, 06:59 AM
We saw this guy just off Weirs Beach on the 4th of July...it's very cool and he is very good at putting on a show.
webmaster
08-06-2013, 07:29 AM
Previous thread about this:
http://www.winnipesaukee.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16076
.. The Monty Python fans will get the Title.. :)
Got this a few days ago from the beach at LSP. I'd seen this on TV a while back.. 1st time I've spotted it on Winni. These folks were having a blast!
Not a great picture, taken with a long lens and still had to be cropped pretty hard.
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"Listen. In order to maintain air-speed velocity, a swallow needs to beat its wings forty-three times every second, right? "
Very cool toy. What does that go for?
Onshore
08-08-2013, 06:30 AM
Are we talking about an African Swallow or a European Swallow?
I'm wondering how much water he swallows when he does those porpoising moves....
Merrymeeting
08-08-2013, 07:01 AM
Are we talking about an African Swallow or a European Swallow?
How do know so much about swallows?
From today's Boston Globe...http://www.boston.com/news/nation/2013/08/08/iron-man-jetpacks-spark-concerns-hawaii/BEQM339KEa4w4RXoCjPFuO/story.html
How do know so much about swallows?
From today's Boston Globe...http://www.boston.com/news/nation/2013/08/08/iron-man-jetpacks-spark-concerns-hawaii/BEQM339KEa4w4RXoCjPFuO/story.html
Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know
gtxrider
08-25-2013, 10:15 AM
Help, help I'm being repressed!
That looks like fun but....
SteveA
08-25-2013, 11:01 AM
Now you have me started.. and I can't stop.. :)
King Arthur: I am your king!
Woman: Well I didn't vote for you!
King Arthur: You don't vote for kings.
Woman: Well how'd you become king then?
Angelic music plays...
King Arthur: The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. That is why I am your king!
Dennis: Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government! Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony!
Nagigator
08-25-2013, 11:26 AM
......this is getting too silly..........:)
NH_boater
08-26-2013, 08:15 AM
Looks dangerous. He might get seriously hurt, of course with the reply 'tis but a scratch.......'
Wolfeboro_Baja
08-26-2013, 09:34 AM
"Listen. In order to maintain air-speed velocity, a swallow needs to beat its wings forty-three times every second, right? "
Very cool toy. What does that go for?I don't know if they're selling it or renting it like you would a jet ski! They had a sign up on the Weirs Beach boardwalk yesterday, $99 for a half hour with longer time slots available. They had a website listed but I can't remember it and I can't find it now.
Like Lakegeezer said in the other thread, it would be entertaining to watch someone strapping it on for the first time!! :laugh: :laugh:
.. The Monty Python fans will get the Title.. :)
Got this a few days ago from the beach at LSP. I'd seen this on TV a while back.. 1st time I've spotted it on Winni. These folks were having a blast!
Not a great picture, taken with a long lens and still had to be cropped pretty hard.
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For those who really know what is going on here, check out on you tube ". Monty python and the holy grail modern trailer". Put together really well
SteveA
09-12-2013, 12:13 PM
For those who really know what is going on here, check out on you tube ". Monty python and the holy grail modern trailer". Put together really well
That was GREAT! Thanks for posting the link!
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