I mean, the main reasons cannons were used on an open battlefield was for the fear factor.

Imagine a weaponized dumptruck. Awesome.

7/20/2010 10:03:17 AM

and you could put yosemite sam mudflaps on it. that would be tits.

7/20/2010 10:04:40 AM

^Agreed.

7/20/2010 10:06:45 AM

I started a thread similar to this asking what my brother-in-law's brother is to me. Is he my brother-in-law as well, or just some dude related to my sister's husband?

7/20/2010 10:16:24 AM

Depends on if you're Korean or not. They seem to have special names for virtually everyone you could potentially be related to, even "once removed"

7/20/2010 10:18:53 AM

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"one's sister's husband's brother"

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/co-brother-in-law

7/20/2010 10:22:29 AM

7/20/2010 10:25:56 AM

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"If you could keep it from getting stuck, protect the tires from gunfire... Troop transport Towing Cargo transport"

Better make it quick though, since gasoline and diesel fuel weren't invented for another 20 years.

7/20/2010 10:31:06 AM

Those concerns were addressed with the addition of era-available technologies and adaptation

7/20/2010 10:31:50 AM

Ahh... burnin' whiskey eh?

7/20/2010 10:33:11 AM

i dont know about just one dumptruck. maybe a bunch of dumptrucks. unless you guys are talking about dumptruck technology in general. i didnt know dumptrucks were impervious to cannonbawls.

7/20/2010 10:34:44 AM

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"i didnt know dumptrucks were impervious to cannonbawls."

Take some of the steel used for the bed and armor the front with it.

7/20/2010 10:37:19 AM

Or any steel really, since they had that available.

^^We need FroshKiller to weigh in on the scenario since he brought it to TWW in the first place

[Edited on July 20, 2010 at 10:38 AM. Reason : his post, his problem]

7/20/2010 10:38:31 AM

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"The brother-in-law takes off"

7/20/2010 10:39:22 AM

7/20/2010 10:58:35 AM

even if you're allowed to have gasoline, all the other side has to do is shoot whoever's driving the truck

the usefulness of tanks lies in the fact that they are armored...the only way to protect the truck-driver would be to replace the windshield with steel or iron

and that wouldn't work, obviously

7/20/2010 11:12:20 AM

please guys, I have a battle.

7/20/2010 11:16:02 AM

Time for another commute, I'm gonna ask everyones opinion on the dump truck

7/20/2010 2:36:00 PM

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7/20/2010 2:39:02 PM

yo lemme get a BTTT on this



I missed out on all the dumptruck talk and would like to weigh in



basically I think as long as the doors of the dumptruck were locked, you wouldnt have to worry about it being overrun or captured, mainly because if union soldiers got in the bed, the driver could just press a button and dump them right back on the battlefield, legs all splayed and uniforms lookin all muddied


also, if it had a gatling gun on it, you could pretty much chalk it up as a battle won by the south




but on that same note, if the union had backhoes, the rebels would have lost the war a whole lot faster

7/20/2010 8:24:06 PM

what a stupid fucking thread

7/20/2010 8:28:55 PM

did Liz get married?

7/20/2010 8:54:10 PM

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"if the union had backhoes"

Sounds like a small business opportunity.

Johnny Reb's and Billy Yank's Backhoe & Hauling

7/20/2010 9:44:22 PM

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"Some morons on another team at my job had a rousing argument over whether the South could have won the Civil War if they'd had a 20th-century dump truck."

And, having given the idea to the morons here, see what happens? Rousing indeed.

(This moron's opinion--if they'd had a whole fleet of them, yes. Part of the South's problem was poor transporation and industrial infrastructure, including railroads. And driver protection is cake--ever heard of iron bars?)

[Edited on July 20, 2010 at 11:29 PM. Reason : .]

7/20/2010 11:27:37 PM

this thread

I lurve it lol

if youre gonna take a dump truck and reinforce the sides and place steel over the tires and put a Gatling gun on it why don't you just go ahead and say its a tank instead because thats not a dump truck

also to the whole cannon were only used for fear purposes idea, thats BS. They were used to destroy fortifications and in battles where soldiers were organized in lines (i.e. gettysburg, shiloh, bull run) they were extremely deadly. one well timed volley could shred a line up and send anyone left uninjured running.

anyway, no way in hell one dumptruck provides any sort of meaningful use to the south

[Edited on July 20, 2010 at 11:44 PM. Reason : .]

7/20/2010 11:41:49 PM

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"did Liz get married?"

other one, although she just deferred her doctoral studies for a guy so i wouldn't be surprised if she does too soon

7/20/2010 11:42:59 PM

but yo, on the real



do you guys think that the English would've won the revolutionary war if they had had Sky 5?




no radios, no guns attached to it, just WRAL's Sky 5

[Edited on July 21, 2010 at 4:55 PM. Reason : got sidetracked and ended up re-writing history, thanks Ernie]

7/21/2010 4:41:44 PM

The colonies did win

What did they teach you over there

7/21/2010 4:44:53 PM

Back to the top for one of the flat-out stupidest threads ever.

6/24/2011 10:27:01 AM

I just read every post of this mind boggling thread.

6/24/2011 10:56:43 AM

aahahahahhaha I <3 this thread

6/24/2011 11:00:56 AM

How did I miss this gem?

6/24/2011 11:34:50 AM

Haha great read.

6/24/2011 11:37:56 AM

this thread makes my head hurt

6/24/2011 11:39:19 AM

Hopefully he doesn't procreate.

6/24/2011 11:41:09 AM

this is gooooood

6/24/2011 11:48:01 AM

Are you allowed to marry your sister's husband's sister?

6/24/2011 11:56:21 AM

Or they could enter the flying cars cheat and fly it around and dump bombs out of it.

6/24/2011 12:35:26 PM

in my culture, my sister's husband, his brothers, and all his male cousins become my brothers-in-law. I call their moms, dads, aunts, and uncles just as they would, unless I was previously related to them already.

the same goes with my wife's family, of course

6/24/2011 12:37:55 PM

What if you always ran the dumptruck in reverse with the bed down?

And your army could follow behind.

Then who would win?

6/24/2011 2:53:31 PM

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"What if you always ran the dumptruck in reverse with the bed down? And your army could follow behind. Then who would win?"

The guy driving the dump truck in reverse would have too hard of a time seeing where he was going. I still stand by the idea of using the metal from the bed to armor plate the front and hauling troops in the back of it.

[Edited on June 24, 2011 at 3:04 PM. Reason : -]

6/24/2011 3:03:43 PM

holy fucking shit

6/24/2011 3:05:08 PM

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"aahahahahhaha I <3 this thread"

concur. I almost love it as much as lafta's redbox thread.

6/24/2011 3:07:52 PM

whatever happened to the lafta owing 5 dollar bucks thread?

6/24/2011 3:08:30 PM

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"The guy driving the dump truck in reverse would have too hard of a time seeing where he was going. I still stand by the idea of using the metal from the bed to armor plate the front and hauling troops in the back of it. "

Dude, most battlefields were on a big fucking field. Just go backwards and use your mirrors.

Who would win?

6/24/2011 3:19:41 PM

hey now this stuff used to confuse me also


when i was 10

[Edited on June 24, 2011 at 9:36 PM. Reason : ]

6/24/2011 9:32:52 PM

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"USED TO CONFUSED"

6/24/2011 9:34:25 PM

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"because i'd have to deal with people who don't know what "brother-in-law" means"

vb, these people also go to bars

sorry

6/24/2011 9:49:11 PM