What do you do with hopeless junker pianos?  Ideally, they should be
given one last chance of making a sound, however briefly.  The solution
is simple -- send 'em to Hew Kennedy in Shropshire, England, and he'll
make 'em airborne, if only for a little while.  When they come down,
they'll make a sound!

See  http://www.idiom.com/~brett/humor/trebuchet.html

Colin Hinz
Toronto, Canada

PS: Saturday, 08 January 2000 is Elvis Presley's 65th birthday.  This
is unrelated, apparently, to the above notice.

 [ That's a funny news article!  It describes a siege engine, the
 [ trebuchet, a medieval war machine which makes a catapult seem puny!
 [ -- Robbie